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Hello, and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race.

The weekly podcast where, I mean, I don't even know what to say.

I don't want to utter the usual lines about the ways we can't talk, don't talk, yada, I mean, I don't even know what to say. I don't want to utter the

usual lines about the ways we can't talk, don't talk, yada, yada, yada, because most of us right

now are a mess in mourning, not just about race relations, but about the future of the country,

what just happened, what could happen, and what we will allow to become the new normal or not.

Anyway, I'm Anna Holmes, and I'm in Los Angeles for this week, which is, to put it mildly,

very surreal.

Joining me from the Panoply Studios in New York are Tanzina Vega.

Hi, Tanzina.

Hi.

Tanner Colby.

Hey, Tanner.

Hello, Anna.

And in D.C. we have Adam Surwer from the Atlantic. Hi, Adam. Hi, how's it going. Well, you know how it's going. Today, I'm not sure where we even start to talk about President-elect Donald Trump. And I really have a hard time even uttering that phrase without feeling sick to my stomach.

So I guess I just want to put out a general question.

To all of you and someone please jump in, what just happened?

I actually think it's not entirely clear what just happened.

There was obviously a significant

backlash. I think a lot of the statistical evidence suggests that it has to do with immigration

and a rapidly diversifying America and a significant portion of the country feeling uncomfortable not only with

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