The call, which included high-profile actors and singers, was billed as a chance to prove that Donald Trump doesn’t own the votes of white men or speak for them.
First came the Black women, who had been meeting every week for four years and were ready to spring into action for Kamala Harris. Then came the Black men and South Asian Americans. There were also the white women, in a Zoom-busting paroxysm of solidarity and angst.
The speakers included two white dudes on the shortlist to be Harris’s running mate — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — as well as singers Josh Groban and Lance Bass and actors Mark Hamill and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper was there, in a suit and tie, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was too, cracking jokes about J.D. Vance.
“I don’t blame them,” he said in an interview. “Throughout American history, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that when white men organise, it’s often with pointy hats on, and it doesn’t end well.” On Thursday night came “White Women: Answer the Call 2024,” which drew more than 150,000 people to a Zoom meeting that crashed the platform and, according to its planners, raised more than $US8 million.
In an interview Monday, the group’s organiser, Shannon Watts, a founder of Moms Demand Action, called the meeting “a reckoning, more than a rally.” She added: “This was meant to be a conversation about the regrets we have about what happened in 2016, and also the need for white women to pull their weight, and they haven’t been.”
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