Anticipation has been growing for weeks that Joe Biden will make history by choosing the first Black woman as a running mate on a major party’s presidential ticket.

Gretchen Whitmer, a white woman, had flown to meet with Biden to discuss the vice presidency, frustration and disappointment boiled over among Black female Democrats — including some in her own state.

They said they’re also chagrined by the positive press coverage of Whitmer compared to Black women on Biden’s shortlist: California Sen.

In the wake of the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests and Biden’s repeated stumbles over race, many activists thought a Black woman was a lock to be his running mate until the Whitmer news broke, said Latosha Brown, a co-founder of the group Black Voters Matter.

Brown said she was flummoxed by the late consideration of Whitmer because a Black woman would do a better job turning out African American voters, even in Michigan.

“If he picks the governor of Michigan, she might not be able to move the Black vote for him because a lot of people are upset with her,” Brown said.

“At the end of the day, if Joe Biden can’t get the white Midwestern vote, then we’re all up the creek,” she said.

“The whole point of Black folks voting for him is he’s supposed to deliver the white people.

“I do think that, certainly, there will be an element of enthusiasm if it is a historic pick by choosing a Black woman.

5 letter calling on Biden to pick a Black woman, pointed out that an African American running mate would also help with progressive whites and young and millennial voters.

Glynda Carr, co-founder Higher Heights, an advocacy group for Black women, said Biden could ruin the otherwise positive coverage of a running mate by not picking a woman of color.

“If he doesn’t pick a Black woman, it’s going to be an awkward day for" the VP nominee, Carr said.

Karen Finney, a veteran of Bill Clinton’s White House and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, said Biden will pay a steep price if he opts for Whitmer.

“The Whitmer news reminded people that we need to keep being vocal, not just to push back on the attacks but to make it clear that the backlash, if he doesn’t pick a Black woman, is going to be severe,” Finney said.

And Whitmer initially fought a lawsuit that was especially important to Black people in Detroit “seeking a basic right to literacy, classrooms with books and teachers and school buildings with no heat in winter or air conditioning in summer,” Pugh wrote

Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of the BlackPAC political group, said the concerns about Whitmer are “completely justified.” But she indicated she thinks a Whitmer pick is unlikely because it would be such a bad idea