Wake up, chickadees. We're living in Donald Trump's America, and Samantha Bee wants you to dry your eyes and face the facts. "It's pretty clear who ruined America," Bee says, her voice reverberating with the horror of a million feminists. "White people."
Tell us something we don't know, Sam!
And lest you go on and on about how it wasn't you! You didn't vote for him! And your matcha-swilling friends didn't either! Bee would like you to take a hard look in the mirror: "If Muslims have to take responsibility for every member of their community, so do we. And, oh, that does feel awful."
So have you taken to your bed yet—or maybe dissolved into a shapeless heap on the couch? Well, get up and get moving. Because Tammy Duckworth is a U.S. Senator and Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar to the House of Representatives, making her the first Somali-American woman ever to serve in the chamber. And because we have work to do.
"Let's get off the floor and get busy," Bee says. "Especially you, white women. We've got some karma to work off."
Mattie Kahn is a writer whose work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Elle, Vogue, Town & Country, and more. She is the author of Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions.
