Women's March on Washington
/On the drive up, the people around me were sharing their stories of why they were coming and if they had attended protests before. A white woman behind me said this would be her first protest because, "she never had anything to protest under Obama." I was flabbergasted. Had she not read the news for the last 8 years? Or gone on social media in the last 2? How could she possibly have had nothing to protest? And that's when I realized that we white women are very, very late to the resistance. Whether yesterday was your first march or you've been in the streets since Michael Brown's death, as a whole, our demographic is not only late to the party, we've caused a lot of the problems.
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