Thank you, Black Women

 One-by-one, for centuries, Black women, Black American women whose ancestors feed, cleaned, cared for, and cooked, once again rose up to save this place from herself.

The Midterm elections were one for the history books and honestly, show that the power of the people - when they use it - is greater than the people in power.

It has always, honestly, been that way.

What changed?

Maybe it was that so many felt enough of the pain of the evil oligarchy that they rose up and exercised that civil obligation of choosing the leaders across this country.

It wasn't all great - the establishment meant that Florida and Tennessee lost the opportunity to have stellar young people in office and of course, we are waiting on the votes in Mississippi. But overall, it was a note.

A note that says a change gone come and come from the people.

In Georgia, there is a Black American woman whose ancestors are deep in the soil, tied to that original sin of America. In Michigan, there is an Egyptian Muslim man who said, "you can just call me Senator" and also a Muslim woman stood against vitriol to return to office. All across this nation, the people who are the tapestry of this country, rose up and voted for a hopeful tomorrow.

It felt like 2008.

In the victory, however, there is the reminder.

The other side won't suddenly find their conscious after ten years of courting the devil. That means that none of this was so that two established, bought-and-paid-for men, are to be handed the leadership of the house the blue tsunami built.

There are some requirements with this one, some expectations with this one, some not playing nice with this one, some get the thing done with this one.

And as always, Black American women did the ground work, starting in Georgia with the house that Stacey built.

No, we didn't take to the streets over the past two years, we talked, we organized, we strategized, we used our networks to make sure our least-to-the-greatest understood the power of their ballot.

Yes, America owes Black American women a huge thank you and a giant apology.

We stood.

And we will continue to do so.

But today, on the first Friday of the new month, in the days after the election, we will celebrate. We got a Keisha as the nation's first Black woman governor, we actually have four-and-a-spare (IYKYK) of Black governors poised to take care of the needs of the people.

See, that is what sets us apart from the others.

Black Americans know this country, know her flaws, know what will make her better.

And every single time, we choose the greater good.

Without cheating, without shenanigans, without tearing stuff up.

Now, we have some things for them to do, like that list your mama made for you before she went to work on the back of an envelope left on the refrigerator.