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Biden won

Ayesha and Lisa talk about the election, voters, and the divisions brought to light in politics in recent years. Recorded a couple of hours after MSNBC called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. (I didn’t publish this at first because I’m so mortified at how much I monopolized the conversation and whitesplained. But here it is, warts and all.)

Here are some of the things we talked about:

1984 United States presidential election | (the 53% figure is from the 2016 election, but still:) 55 Percent Of White Women, 18 Percent Of Black Men Voted For Trump | Racism and Sexism Combine to Shortchange Working Black Women | Misogynoir: The Unique Discrimination That Black Women Face | Women and the Racial Wealth Divide | Racial and Ethnic Disparities Continue in Pregnancy-Related Deaths | CDC Online Newsroom | Black Women's Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities | Why Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer | Black women are earning more college degrees, but that alone won't close race gaps | Categorical inequalities between Black and white students are common in US schools—but they don't have to be | Inequality at school | The Neglected College Race Gap: Racial Disparities Among College Completers | Opinion | 71 Million People Voted for Trump. They’re Not Going Anywhere. | Opinion | Trump's 74 million vote total might not be as intimidating as it appears | What to make of more than 70m Americans who voted for Trump? | How Trump Sold His Pandemic Failures to Voters | Driving While Black: Racial Profiling On Our Nation's Highways | Findings of a nationwide analysis of traffic stops and searches | For Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped | Research Shows Black Drivers More Likely to Be Stopped by Police | Researchers studied nearly 100 million traffic stops and found black motorists are more likely to be pulled over | Tamara Winfrey-Harris – author, speaker, writer | Spiritual Practices For White Discomfort | Guides and Tools | Blue Boat | UUA.org | Intersectionality | White feminism | WHITE FEMINISM | COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Limits of White Feminism | Feminism has helped white women most, Americans say in Pew survey | Transgender | Why are these women sticking with Trump? | Stop asking why some women still support Trump | The young black Americans backing Trump | Trump supporters in B.C. optimistic about U.S. election results | Trickle-down economics | Libertarianism | pull oneself up by one's bootstraps | Traffic wave | Butterfly effect | Transgenerational trauma | What Is Generational Trauma? Here's How Experts Explain It | Health.com | The Shocking Truth 50 Years After The 1968 Fair Housing Act: The Black Homeownership Paradox | A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America | Housing segregation in the United States | The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental | Blacks in the US face a huge gap in homeownership rates, compared with whites. Here's why. | How the U.S. Government Promoted Housing Segregation in U.S. Cities | Couple says they faced discrimination in home appraisal because of wife's race | Florida couple says home was appraised 40 percent higher after removing Black relatives' photos | The Perils of “People of Color” | What It Means To Be A 'Person Of Color' : Code Switch | Black leaders started using the term “people of color” in the 1960s. Now it's a major identity. | What We Get Wrong About ‘People of Color’ | Inclusive language | Inclusive language guidelines | Seeds | Kamala Harris | Is Kamala Harris Black or South Asian? Why her identity is complicated. | Americans are still figuring out how to talk about multiracial identity. Kamala Harris’s nomination is a perfect example. | Kamala Harris is Asian and Black. That shouldn't be confusing in 2020 — but it is to some. | The Language of Thought Hypothesis (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | Language of thought hypothesis | Language and Thought | Gender Pronouns | LGBT Resource Center | Gender Pronouns - TSER | Gender Neutral Pronouns: How to Use the Right Pronouns | Sexual orientation | Sexual identity | Political correctness | Is America A Christian Nation? | Was America founded as a Christian nation? | The Christian Nation Debate and the US Supreme Court | Demolishing the right's "Founding Myth": America was never a "Christian nation" | In God We Trust | In God We Trust | Salem witch trials | 1692 Salem Witch Trial Education | Salem, MA History | Irreligion in the United States | In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace | Survey: There are now as many Americans who claim no religion as there are evangelicals and Catholics | The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising | Number of Americans with no religious affiliation growing | How America Lost Its Religion | White Evangelicals Made a Deal With the Devil. Now What? | Evangelical Christians once were saved. After Trump, they're lost. | Perspective | Trump has changed the way evangelical Christians think about the apocalypse | Why White Evangelical Voters Love Donald Trump : Code Switch | Quakers | Social Contract Theory | Social contract | Baptists | Unity of Washington DC – a positive path for spiritual living | African and African-American women in Christianity