"Are you surprised?" Three Black women react to the election

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What's surprising about Trump returning to the White House? For Brittany Luse, Pop Culture Happy Hour's Aisha Harris, and NPR's Alana Wise there isn't much to be surprised about. Three Black women and journalists mull over how this moment is business as usual from where they sit.

Then, Brittany puts the spotlight on a word that's been in the shadows in this election cycle: feminism. Vox's Constance Grady and Paper Magazine's Joan Summers join the show to discuss the state of feminism in American politics.

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0:00.0	This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University is committed to moving the world
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0:18.9	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:35.8	Well, Alana, Aisha, I'm just going to come out and ask it.
0:40.2	Are either of you surprised by the election result that former President Donald Trump has been reelected?
0:47.6	I mean, I'm sure you both remember right after a 2016 election, the S&L sketch with Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle.
0:56.8	Yes.
0:58.7	And Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States.
1:04.0	Yeah, you guys are right.
1:05.6	It's a historic night.
1:07.1	Don't worry about it.
1:08.5	Eight years are going to fly by.
1:10.6	Yeah, don't worry. It's going years are going to fly by.
1:12.0	Yeah, don't worry.
1:14.0	It's going to be all white.
1:20.8	And they're the only ones in the room of white people, non-black people who are just like, yep, wasn't surprised.
1:22.6	That was me in 2016.
1:23.9	I wasn't surprised then.
1:25.6	I wasn't surprised now.
1:33.4	The day after the election, I sat down with NPR's Aisha Harris and Alana Wise.
1:34.2	Hey, Brittany.
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