The 92% and Why We’re Resting

Written by Andrea J.

It’s no secret that the majority of Black American (United States) women voters were dissatisfied with the results of November’s election. Many had prior looked into Project 2025, the Republican Prophecy for how the country could and would be mismanaged.

Voting for Kamala Harris was not an airheaded, tactless act of simply purveying “Black Girl Magic” as some dismissive and ill-informed bigots may have had you believe but rather a deliberate effort to safeguard the progressions made by the then-current and prior administrations.

This effort would prove to be ineffective, however, except in one major unprecedented response: Black womxn are opting out. Black womxn are resting. Black womxn are offering ourselves softness.

Post-election, if we were Googling “the meaning of tariffs” it was not because we voted for the candidate that guaranteed to raise them, and we certainly didn’t lift our fingers to find out “how to take back a vote”, for we had already selected consciously to begin with (and most of us are educated on the fact revoking a ballot is not possible). This is enumerated in the fact that 9/10 Black women cast their ballots in favor of Kamala Harris.

It’s clear that, per usual, Black women lifted their sleeves and did the elbow work with the intentions of creating a better and equitable country for, you guessed it, ALL

LIVES. This thankless job, however, ends here. So what is the 92%? The 92% are the black women (alongside the 80% of Black men) that are now resting for the next three years because this isn’t exclusively about governmental politics. This rest has been earned through the centuries of turmoil, overcoming, performing, excellence, triumph, pivoting, marching, and strategy implored by us for the benefit of ALL.

As a matter of fact, it was earned before we even materialized.

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Andrea Jefferson is a writer, artist, digital creator, and entrepreneur from the South. She graduated from the Mississippi School of the Arts’ distinguished literary program as a decorated and published author and continued her education securing honors as a graduate from Pearl River Community College. Her debut poetry collection, Stray Curls and Dirty Laundry, was published digitally in 2018.