Bette Midler Erases White Women’s Responsibility For 2016 Presidential Election

Stop asking Black women to shoulder your responsibilities. We’re not idle. You are.

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White people, even the most well-meaning perpetuate certain archaic sentiments regarding race that, in turn, aids white supremacy. Bette Midler is not one of those well-meaning white people. She missteps without pausing to think.

White people will often tweet out a phrase, idea as though they’ve come up with an insightful game changer. They believe they’re giving us a Gary Oldman ‘Dracula’ moment but they actually throw a Robert Pattinson ‘Edward Cullen’ blip at our unimpressed feet.

So, Bette Midler realized she had to share her ingenious idea for taking on trump with the Twitter masses. That crucial idea was . . .to ask a Black female celebrity, Beyoncé, to invigorate her fans to vote.

This, as stated, is not her first ignorant tweet, just her most recent (not too long ago Bette Midler tweeted that women are the n-words of the world…