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Where are we right now?

We're at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

We're at Howard University.

Howard University at Kamala Harris' concession speech. It's obviously been a very emotional day for a lot of people.

How are you feeling?

I feel sad, disheartened, not surprised, angry, but motivated to continue to mobilize and organize.

I'm feeling like I can barely breathe. It's very sad and organized. I'm feeling like I can barely breathe.

It's very sad and disappointing.

Black women galvanized and built coalitions that you've never seen built before in 60 days.

And this is the thanks that we get.

You can tell she was sad, but her message was for us to continue our fight,

and that's what we're going to do.

The fight's not over.. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show.

I have often complained that I want our elections to be different.

I certainly want them to be less about partisanship and picking your team and treating it like a sporting match.

And I also want it to be less about picking your hero.

I want to think less about candidates as these all or nothing avatars of our personal political identities,

more about them as representatives,

who we are agreeing to empower and we continue to check once they're in office, whomever they are.

But mostly, I've always wanted elections to be more explicitly a conversation about what kind of

society we want to have. What are our values? How we want to share

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