What Does America Stand for Today?
September 12, 2025Women and Blacks Form a Powerful Coalition
History shows that women and Blacks form a powerful coalition when it comes to passing critical public policy. The coalition was pivotal in getting voting rights, and equal treatment when it comes to equal employment, educational opportunities and access to other aspects of life that have always been afforded automatically to white males.
But the White House, Congress, and state legislatures are working overtime to pass laws, policies and practices—to revert, turn the clock back—that will disenfranchise women and Blacks in particular.
It started with the flurry of executive orders to get rid of DEI programs in every sector of American life—educational institutions, government departments and agencies, even private sector businesses either done by edict, monetary punishment or other looming threats.
Since women and Blacks form a powerful coalition, they are the primary targets of dismantling DEI.
Then there is the wholesale effort to distort, delete, and destroy the role Women and Blacks have played and the contributions the have made to making America what it is today.
This is done by ordering the removal of historical documents, photographs, artifacts and other evidence from our museums, and other public spaces.
This is being done with the selective banning of books from school curricula, libraries—with the goal of censoring and indoctrinating future generations by passing on a distorted, white-washed and false history of who and what America is.
Women and Blacks Form a Powerful Coalition (LacheeV/iStock Images)
All because of the fear that women and Blacks form a powerful coalition when it comes to determining public policies.
Targeting women, Blacks and other minorities who historically have voted for Democrats more than Republicans is the focus of redistricting efforts taking place in states to ensure that the current political power — doing all the disenfranchisement to reshape America — remains in place.
Whose voting power will be most negatively affected by redistricting efforts?
Women and Blacks form a powerful coalition if they vote as a bloc against elected officials who are not working for policies and laws to meet their needs; and vote as a bloc against ballot initiatives that could negatively impact or change the quality of their lives, their families, their communities, future generations.
The changes taking place in Washington and states were not conceived overnight. One could argue that the vestiges of separateness and elements of autocracy run deep and has always been resident in the American way of life.
But when it has raised its ugly head from time-to time during the last nearly 250 years, like-minded Americans who believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and our common humanity have prevailed.
We should be reminded of the milestones that can be achieve if, what ordinarily might appear to be, unlikely partners come together to fight and achieve common goods.
Women and Blacks form a powerful coalition.
Portions of this article first appeared in The Missouri Independent
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