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Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Gene and Shereen digest the surprising results of the presidential election with help from a comedian and a columnist. Negin Farsad hosts the podcast "Fake The Nation." Gustavo Arrellano is editor of "OC WEEKLY" in Orange County, California, and writes the column "¡Ask A Mexican!."

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0:00.0	Donald Trump is the next president of the United States.
0:12.3	I'm Gene Demby.
0:14.2	And I'm Shreen Madisal Miraji and this is the Twilight Zone, the post-election episode,
0:21.8	also known as Code Switch.
0:23.7	Gene, how do you feel right now?
0:28.5	You know, a little disoriented.
0:31.5	I think a lot of us woke up on November 5th, 2008, thinking, oh, wow, this country maybe
0:37.1	some of my premises about the way this country works and its ability to grapple with these
0:41.5	issues of race.
0:43.3	Maybe I was being too pessimistic about them.
0:45.0	Maybe I didn't know this country as well as I thought I did, right?
0:47.7	Because we had elected our first black president.
0:49.6	Right.
0:50.6	I think a lot of folks out there did not feel that way.
0:52.8	Although they felt something really similar, they woke up to a country that they did not
0:56.7	recognize and said, maybe I don't know this country as well as I thought I did.
1:00.5	And so now, you know, I think we're dealing with dependant on swinging the other way
1:04.2	in which those people, I guess, got to remake the country in their image in some ways.
1:09.6	So yeah, that's how I'm feeling.
1:11.2	How are you doing, sis?
1:12.8	Unsettled.
1:13.8	Unsettled because a man who called Mexican immigrants rapists, a man who wants to build a
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