They Didn’t Vote for the Black Woman

How my biracial daughter and I processed the outcome of the presidential election

Photo by Eye for Ebony on Unsplash

There is one thing I didn’t plan for on Election Night: that Kamala Harris would lose. All the predictions said she’d win, so what was this alternative universe that said she wasn’t? I went to bed, my phone right by my side, hoping for a miracle. I slept well that night because, unbeknownst to me at the time; I was fall…