For anyone who wants to read a critique of the Times piece, here is a gift link donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

I think part of the key here, having thought about this a lot in repro, is to stop forcing the movement to follow the framing most likely to win with the courts rather than the framing most likely to actually be politically effective/preserve the right.

In other words, voters who chose someone other than Mamdani and Cuomo as their first preference went for Mamdani over Cuomo by almost 2:1.

White womanhood is coded as innocent. Motherhood as benevolent, esp. toward children.

You cannot divorce her white motherhood from the work this decision is doing to make America untenable for undocumented black & brown folks.

Surely this mother of black children could never be racist, etc etc