Election 2020
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Biden and Harris will secure their victory today despite the GOP’s attempt to delegitimize millions of votes
When I get on the phone with Meedie Bardonille, a cardiac ICU nurse in Washington, D.C., she’s walking into work, armed with doughnuts for her colleagues.
It’s rare for interview subjects to ask how I’m doing. But then again, Bardonille is a nurse. It’s her job to care and to show concern and compassion. Even in a year that has demanded so much from our health care workers, they somehow find a way to keep pressing on.
Bardonille, however, is not your typical health care worker. She’s been on the D.C. …
Trump’s base is big mad, and President-elect Joe Biden’s policies are uncertain, so don’t get too comfy
While many supporters of President-elect Joe Biden are still relishing the sweet taste of victory, some Black folks remain cautious about what lurks around the corner and question if this is the quiet before the storm. The day the election was called was a day of celebration for many, but we have two lingering issues on our hands, the first being Donald Trump and his base. Simply put, they’re big mad about the election, and Trump is fueling their anger, making some in the Black community concerned about their physical safety should his base decide to lash out.
Can the Peach State wrestle Senate control from the GOP?
In the wee hours of the morning on November 6, three days after the election, something miraculous happened in Georgia. Joe Biden overtook Trump’s lead for the first time. The counties that helped deliver the votes during those final nail-biting hours included Clayton, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties — strongholds for minority voters. Military, provisional, and the final ballots to trickle in widened Biden’s lead over Trump to 14,000. For Georgia, though, this election was only Round One. Round Two, the U.S. Senate runoff race on January 5, will have far greater nationwide consequences than the state’s 16 electoral votes did.
Individual people did end up mattering
I personally know several people who were responsible for winning the election, and one of them might have been me.
It’s a bold statement, but hear me out.
Back in June, a friend of mine told me to calm down. “There’s nothing you can do,” he said. “You should meditate and accept that it’s out of your hands.” I was crumbling under the endless pressure of the news, and he was trying to soothe me.
“You’re wrong,” I said, frustrated that he wasn’t doing anything to actually help. “You know you could… ”
He cut me off. “Come on, you…
If you support Donald Trump, what else are you supporting?
Elections are supposed to be an opportunity to vote for your political beliefs. They are a partisan battle to turn states blue or red. A right-side versus left-side standoff. But let’s not kid ourselves by saying that this is the case for the 2020 presidential election.
This time around, this isn’t a fight between the two major political parties. You’re not voting on a Democratic or Republican leader. You’re voting on whether or not you want the president of the United States to have basic human decency.
We can agree to disagree. That’s the beautiful thing about our world. We…
Election 2020
South Asian Americans make up around 2% of the American population and comprise an even smaller percent of registered voters in the United States. But you wouldn’t know it from the outsized effort candidates made to target the desi vote this election cycle.
For the first time in United States history, political analysts projected that South Asian Americans would be a key factor that tipped not only the presidential vote in key swing states, but also electoral decisions in local races nationwide. …
Yes, she is Black and Indian, but never forget that in this role she represents White women too
“Groundbreaking: Kamala Harris becomes first Black, South Asian woman vice president” Newsweek tweeted. “Kamala Harris to make history as the first Black woman vice president,” reads the CBS News headline. “Harris becomes first Black woman, South Asian elected VP,” reads the Associated Press headline.
To many, Newsweek’s tweet and headlines for the Associated Press and CBS News’ stories seem harmless, complimentary even. But they perpetuate the erasure and minimization of Black women and women of color’s achievements for all women. And that is far more dangerous and damaging than most of us realize. …
Georgia has flipped and the country feels hopeful for the first time in four years! Former Vice President Joe Biden has taken the lead in the historically red state and is getting closer to bringing this election (and Trump’s presidency) to an end.
This is great news but let’s be clear, states don’t just turn blue by accident or even through excellent campaign strategies from presidential candidates. It takes the efforts of organizers and politicians on the ground in Trump country. …
A list of self-care tips you can turn to when things get tough
We’re a few days out from the election and no closer to knowing who the next leader of the free world is going to be. Regardless, we do know that there are going to be some hard days ahead of us so it’s important to be intentional about our self-care.
“The setting of self-care intentions is a goal-setting approach to self-care that invites creativity and flexibility,” Dr. Bernasha Anderson writes for ZORA. “This approach allows you to balance your self-care practice while fostering self-compassion. Our self-care intentions should shift based on our unique needs at a given point in time…
You should’ve done more to keep people from voting for Trump
I’m about to go on a tear so, white friends, prepare for discomfort: This is your fault. Yes, you. You are responsible for perpetuating racism and division in the United States. You are the reason why the presidential race is so close and so many people voted to keep Trump in office.
There are so many places that teach you how to deep canvass, how to talk someone out of the bigotry that fuels Trump and his supporters. You could’ve gone to civil rights trainings where you learn how to actually talk to your conservative friends and family. You…
