Every day for the past year we've woken up to new uncertainties from the Twitter Presidency. Volatile relations with North Korea, the resurgence of neo-Nazis and attacks on the press have created a constant state of unrest. By electing a man with no experience or qualifications, and of questionable mental faculty, we've created a chaotic situation that could blow up (literally or metaphorically) any moment.

It is tempting to run to mommy when a problem gets too big for us to solve on our own. Who is more maternal than the woman who's been in our homes for the past 30 years? What's more appealing than the true rags-to-riches story of America's first self-made female billionaire? Oprah for president!

Oprah Winfrey in the White House is a pretty picture because she is everything Trump is not: articulate, intelligent and female. She moves and speaks with poise and dignity. We are so starved for competent leadership that we're calling on a talk show host to run for president of the United States. This is not Oprah's problem. This is our problem.

After Doug Jones beat Roy Moore in the Senate race in Alabama, we thanked black people, particularly black women, for turning the vote; for doing what the rest of the citizenry apparently could not do. Now, again, we turn to a black woman to be our savior, to solve our problems because it is appealing and easy. And why should she?

Black women did not make this mess and it is not their responsibility to clean it up. As my mom would say: "You got yourselves into this; you get yourselves out."

It's a fact we hear time and time again: in the 2016 election, 53 percent of white women voted for Trump, a self-professed misogynist who profited off the objectification of women. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton, arguably one of the most qualified presidential candidates we've seen, was considered so unlikable that many women cast their votes for her far less-qualified opponent.

Gender equality is not a partisan issue; politicizing it is counterproductive to the cause. To keep the momentum we've seen in the #metoo and Time's Up movements, we need to reach across the aisle and work together. The burden cannot fall on one demographic alone.

Women know what it means to live in a world created for and dominated by men, and yet so many of us continue to vote into office men who epitomize misogyny and oppression.

After the election last year I sat down with two of my friends, both black, both female, to try to understand what had happened and how I could help. How Clinton had lost. How Trump had won. They told me, "It is not up to us to educate you. We didn't do this." Black women cannot keep saving us from ourselves.

Katy Evans is a comedian from Dallas who produces and co-hosts a monthly all-female variety show called Ladies Night at Dallas Comedy House. She wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News. Twitter: @snaveytak

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