Black Women Don’t Exist to Save Us

White women praise Black women at our peril

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My Twitter feed this morning is full of praise and credit to Stacey Abrams for the astounding senate seat wins in Georgia. And rightly so.

How could you possibly go wrong trumpeting her success on social media? Turns out it’s pretty easy for us white folks to screw it up even as we were are trying to be…