If the size and passion of the Women’s March is indicative of a
collective realization in the Black and progressive community that the
time to wake up from the eight-year coma is upon us, then the election
of Trump is an opportunity to mobilize thousands who couldn’t be reached
under the previous administration. Sadly, many Black parents enter the
Trump era with children murdered by police with impunity throughout this
country. The Democratic Party is counting on Obama amnesia and hoping
that four years from now the new ground swell of activists will return
the Dems to power. The larger question, however, is where were the white
women and white progressives that we witnessed demonstrating after the
election when Black youth were being gunned down in the streets across
America? Where were the hats, money, media, buses, and entertainers when
Trayvon, Michael, Sandra, Eric, John, Tanisha and Tamir were being
hunted down and killed like animals?
In fact, the Women’s March didn’t focus on victims of the
Obama/Clinton administration, such as environmentalist Tennie White.
Who was Tennie White?
Tennie White was targeted by the Obama Administration because of her
tenacious commitment to protecting her rural Mississippi community from
deadly and cancerous chemical pollution. According to an Intercept
article, Tennie is “the only person connected to two huge environmental
contamination cases in Mississippi to ever serve prison time.”
Tennie’s “crime,” was that she was a community activist and not a
polluter. She paid a heavy price for attempting to save her community.
-- Dr. Marsha Adebayo, "Imagine a Women’s March Against Black Genocide and the Struggle of Tennie White" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).