This episode’s conversation is a “Letter to Future Voters” from Mr. Well-Travelled and Conner Cayson.
In this “letter,” we reflect on how it felt to live through Election Day and Election Week 2020, as well as on how the country reacted to the results with protests and celebrations.
We examine the slow ballot counting process and feelings of anxiousness as we watched results trickle in from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona.
Next, we dive deeper into Georgia and how the state was able to flip from Red to Blue. We honor the Black women organizers (Nse Ufot, Helen Butler, Deborah Scott, and Tamieka Atkins) who worked alongside Stacey Abrams to register voters and increase turnout in the state.
In the second half of the show, we discuss the demographic breakdown of election results and explore what the White Racial Identity vote says about America in 2020 and beyond.
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Here are the links from today’s conversation:
Stacey Abrams and Other Georgia Organizers Are Part of a Long—But Often Overlooked—Tradition of Black Women Working for the Vote
https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5909556/stacey-abrams-history-black-women-voting/%3famp=true
Stacey Didn’t Do It Alone
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHTAW9ZFWSW/?igshid=13fm7h0opqmt5
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQKaYehlMT/?igshid=1d8u7c0drzqt7
November 4, 2020 Instagram post by @dopequeenpheebs
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHMBcFwB5gP/?igshid=ra6jf746s8km
1A - How Whiteness Affected the Election
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1a/id1188724250?i=10004978
