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The election night that turned into an election week is finally over
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has been declared President-elect Joe Biden. Although President Trump lost the election, he actually improved his numbers amongst black voters by 2 to 3 percentage points
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If that's shocking to you, then you clearly haven't been following politics closely enough
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But what might not be shocking to you is that several black women in prominent roles had a hand in defeating Donald Trump
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Let's just look at five of them. The five black women that took down Donald Trump
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Hi, my name is Jared and welcome to the five where we share five interesting things
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in black culture and society in every episode. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell so you can get notified when we release brand new videos
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This list is in no particular order, but let's start with the former First Lady and one of the most popular women
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in the country, Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama has been out of the White House for four years
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but her influence today is just as powerful as it was back when she was still a resident
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of the most famous address in America. Back in August, she delivered one of the most powerful speeches
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at the virtually held Democratic National Convention. Michelle has a way of mixing strength and softness in her speeches
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but this particular speech was especially harsh and straightforward attack of President Trump job performance Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job
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but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment
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He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us
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It is what it is. Number two, Simone Sanders. Simone Sanders is a political strategist
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and commentator who served as a senior advisor to the Joe Biden campaign
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The Nebraska Native started her career working in the communications department for former
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Omaha mayor Jim Suttall and went on to work for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign
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Simone also worked at CNN the same year as a political yst and commentator
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In the 2020 election, Simone joined Biden's campaign and became the highest ranking black
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campaign advisor. And what Donald Trump is doing is an attempt to distract us from the actual things that are
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happening in America, the pandemic that he's bungled, the fact that he has not exhibited
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any leadership given the unrest in this country. And we are not going to play his game and I encourage other folks not to do so either
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Number three, Stacey Abrams. Back in 2018, the whole nation was watching Georgia to see if the state would elect the country's
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first black woman governor. Stacey Abrams lost the election with only 44,000 votes
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At that point she had already made history by becoming the first black woman in America to be a major party nominee for governor After losing the election Stacey founded Fair Fight a national voting rights organization headquartered in Georgia
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Since 2018, the organization has registered approximately 800,000 new voters in Georgia
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and helped the state become competitive for the first time in over 25 years for the Democratic Party
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Fair Fight has also worked to abolish voting laws. they believe encourage voter suppression
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We have to fix those laws because as long as we have eligible American citizens who cannot cast a ballot
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then the game is rigged because in a democracy, you should be allowed to make your voice heard
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And as long as there are rules that prevent that from happening, rules that should not exist, that's a problem for America
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Kamala Harris. Future Vice President Kamala Harris has made history as the first woman, first black, and first Indian to become vice president-elect
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in American history. In the 24 hours after Biden announced Kamala as his vice president
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the Democrats raised a record-breaking $26 million. The selection helped bring fresh enthusiasm
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to the Democratic Party for a presidential nominee that was lacking in that department
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The enthusiasm gap was especially concerning since President Trump's backers were highly energized
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about going to the polls for their candidate. At the end, the Republicans' record-breakers
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voter turnout was beaten by the Democrats. Obviously Kamala Harris takes some of the credit for that excitement
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Last but not least the three women that founded the Black Lives Matter movement Black Lives Matter is by design a grassroots and decentralized organization
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However, the three women behind the creation of the organization have propelled it into the worldwide phenomenon that it has turned into
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Alicia Garza, Opel Tamedi, and Patrice Cullors founded the movement in 2013 to protest against not just police brutality
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but all racially motivated violence against black lives. After the killing of George Floyd
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the protests led by Black Lives Matter became the biggest international movement in history
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The reaction President Trump had to the protests angered not just those in the movement
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but others who finally were opening up to the movement. Trump's handling also motivated some liberals to vote
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who might have otherwise stayed out of the process due to Bernie Sanders not getting the Democratic nomination
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He has marginalized, attacked, neglected, and abused almost every single group in this country
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And our work to defeat Trump also helps us defeat the white supremacists that he has galvanized
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No matter what you think of Donald Trump, his political influence is far from over
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Let us know in the comments, other influential black women that helped
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oust him from the White House. That's it for this episode of the Five. We'll be back with another
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episode in black culture and society
