The Women’s March 2018 And What I learned

What can I say, The Women's March of 2018 was amazing. 2017 was a year of ups and downs for me to say the least. December 2016 I found out that I was having complications with my pregnancy. We tried to save the baby but we where told that the pregnancy would more then like have a miscarriage and that nothing else could be done. The baby did not want to release itself and I ended up having a D&C only days before the march. On a brighter note I graduate with my A.S.S in Business Management in May and also was accepted into SUNY Purchase days after my commencement ceremony. Philosophy is my major the plan is law school afterwards. My son tried out for his varsity basketball team as a freshman and not only did he make it he was in the Westchester new paper for his achievements. I was so sad because 2017 I started to become very active in politics and this would have just been a great way to start things off with, to be a part of such a historical moment in time. However, I do believe everything happens for a reason because this year I was part of The Women's March in a major way. My cousin Sulma Aruz- Brown the author of "No Pelo Melo"-"Bad Hair Does Not Exist" was a guest speaker at the march. Now, I loved the book and idea so much that I booked my cousin to speak at my youngest son's school. And let me tell you it was amazing, to say the least, everyone loved her and the energy she brought to the school. A couple of days later she calls me up and asks me if I wanted to be one of her guests and I said yes cuz I will be there with bells and whistles on.

January 21, 2018, came in and it was magical. The weather was beautiful compared to the -1 degree that we were having. I was super excited to be at the 2nd Annual Women's March to protest a bigot president that the United States now has. But first, we had to work, we started by setting up the coffee table for the VIPs. We did the with the Boogie Down BX Café a great coffee shop that is located right in the heart of the Hunts Point area in the Bronx, co-owned by your very own Sulma Arzu-Brown. The coffee was amazing and the coconut bread was to die for. The celebrities loved the coffee and bread and were so thankful that we had given them something to eat and keep them warm since we were located right where there was shade and this made it feel a bit colder than it really was. It was great to see all these women of all different background coming together.

But as I looked around I had the nagging question. How many of these women (especially white women) voted for Trump? We know that white women help put Trump in office that was proven by statics but what happened that all of a sudden, not even one month in office they started to turn on him. I mean were they not watching what I was watching or did the bigotry, racism and anti-feminist view make them come out in droves because they could not wait to get white men back in office even if it was Donald J Trump. Trump never lied to any of us, he always was himself a bigot, racist, misogynistic elites. I saw how many white women turned out to protest Trump and my question still reminded, how, how many of you vote him in and why? But knowing the history of this country I understood why. It was fear base, the reason Trump was in office was that of the fear that he instilled in them and now the reason they are out here protest is again due to fear.

The first fear was that nonwhites would start to take over the country and make them a minority in a land that never belonged to them in the first place. That they would be out of jobs blah blah blah the same damn rhetoric that worked for that past 400 years. The second wave of fear came with a direct blow to the liberties, whether it was the reproductive rights, pay wages or this new sexual abuse movement. They fear that this administration will take their freedoms away. I looked around and saw people that were out there in my opinion for many different reasons. However, I understand that it looked like we were united but deep down we were not. As much as I would have to loved to believe we where there for the same reason I knew that this was not the case. I understand that our plight was much different. A majority of black and colored women did not vote for Trump we understood what having him as president would do to our communities.

However, our counterparts did not see the damage that would come from him being in office. But it did not take them that long to see where the country was going but really deep down it did not have anything in MY OPINION with his racism, bigotry or even misogynistic ideals. Again it had to do with self-preservation, it was their ego. I want to say that I think this was a wake-up call that when we elect people like this that it will affect ALL of us. Why I do I think this, I feel this is because for many years we where feed patriarchal nonsense of divide and conquer. Women are the teacher of the world. How is this? Women teach their children, mothers are our children's first teacher. As women, we have become more and more disconnected with Mother Earth because of this patriarchal way of thinking, a thinking not rooted in our nature. We must unlearn everything to relearn so that we as women can start to teach our children love, compassion, tolerance. But first we must pratice what we preach. We are the teachers, so if the world is messed up we have a role in this and it's up to us to create a shift of great and benevolent change.

" I am Women hear me Roar"..............