{"id":16803,"date":"2024-11-19T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16803"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:28:12","slug":"some-black-women-are-choosing-rest-over-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16803","title":{"rendered":"Some Black Women Are Choosing Rest Over Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Instead of charging to the front lines of the culture wars, many Black women have vowed to prioritize their own well-being first.<\/p>\n

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Cheri Hall woke up hours before dawn the morning after Election Day and checked her phone anxiously for results. A news notification hinting that former President Donald J. Trump had defeated Vice President Kamala Harris caused her to gasp and grab her chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt it in my entire body,\u201d said Ms. Hall, 49, who is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Washington, D.C. \u201cI was heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black women voters supported Ms. Harris<\/a> in overwhelming numbers \u2014 upward of 90 percent<\/a> cast ballots for her, according to some exit polls. And her loss, as the first Black woman presidential nominee, left supporters such as Ms. Hall feeling disillusioned. On social media, under hashtags like #blackwomenrest and #restera, some women have emphasized that after turning out strong<\/a> for Ms. Harris, they feel unappreciated and defeated, and are ready to bow out of the political and culture wars, for now, to focus on their personal well-being.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur feelings are hurt,\u201d said Vernique Esther Ofili, 31, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Atlanta. \u201cWe get to decide how we respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The weekend after Mr. Trump\u2019s victory, Ms. Hall told her 4,000-plus TikTok followers<\/a> that she would be taking what she calls \u201cthe great Black step back.\u201d She won\u2019t allow herself to feel consumed by national politics, she said, and she instead plans to focus on her mental and physical health by exercising and no longer molding herself to please others.<\/p>\n

Although Mr. Trump\u2019s first presidential victory in 2016 worried Ms. Hall, she thought it might have been a fluke, that some voters overlooked his dearth of experience in politics and \u201cbought what he was selling\u201d because he was a prominent businessman, she said. And his triumph, despite a long history of allegations of racism and sexism<\/a>, was a \u201charsh reminder\u201d of the role racism could play in American politics, she added.<\/p>\n

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Instead of charging to the front lines of the culture wars, many Black women have vowed to prioritize their own well-being first.Cheri Hall woke up hours before dawn the morning after Election Day and checked her phone anxiously for results. A news notification hinting that former President Donald J. Trump had defeated Vice President Kamala Harris caused her to gasp and grab her chest.\u201cI felt it in my entire body,\u201d said Ms. Hall, 49, who is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Washington, D.C. \u201cI was heartbroken.\u201dBlack women voters supported Ms. Harris in overwhelming numbers \u2014 upward of 90 percent cast ballots for her, according to some exit polls. And her loss, as the first Black woman presidential nominee, left supporters such as Ms. Hall feeling disillusioned. On social media, under hashtags like #blackwomenrest and #restera, some women have emphasized that after turning out strong for Ms. Harris, they feel unappreciated and defeated, and are ready to bow out of the political and culture wars, for now, to focus on their personal well-being.\u201cOur feelings are hurt,\u201d said Vernique Esther Ofili, 31, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Atlanta. \u201cWe get to decide how we respond.\u201dThe weekend after Mr. Trump\u2019s victory, Ms. Hall told her 4,000-plus TikTok followers that she would be taking what she calls \u201cthe great Black step back.\u201d She won\u2019t allow herself to feel consumed by national politics, she said, and she instead plans to focus on her mental and physical health by exercising and no longer molding herself to please others.Although Mr. Trump\u2019s first presidential victory in 2016 worried Ms. Hall, she thought it might have been a fluke, that some voters overlooked his dearth of experience in politics and \u201cbought what he was selling\u201d because he was a prominent businessman, she said. And his triumph, despite a long history of allegations of racism and sexism, was a \u201charsh reminder\u201d of the role racism could play in American politics, she added.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16805,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16806,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions\/16806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}