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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

Roxane Gay on Anger After the Election

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week on Politically Re-Active, Kamau and Hari process the election results. Standup comedian Laurie Kilmartin and writer Roxane Gay join the guys to help make sense of a deeply painful moment in American history. From the costs to black and brown communities, to the culpability of the mainstream media, to what the future will actually look like following the end of Hillary’s historic run, there are many questions and few answers. This is not the post-election conversation we wanted to have. Note: This episode was recorded on the evening of November 9, 2016. White people, if you need somewhere to start, join Showing Up For Racial Justice: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/aboutFind more information about Roxane Gay’s essays, books, and appearances at http://www.roxanegay.com/.And Laurie Kilmartin is always performing in LA and all over the country. Find her dates here: http://www.kilmartin.com/.Finally, Hari’s new album Mainstream American Comic and Kamau’s album Semi Prominent Negro can be yours if you visit www.killrockstars.com. Need more of your favorite hosts? Find where they’ll be appearing at http://www.wkamaubell.com/ and http://www.harikondabolu.com/. Thanks for listening – tweet us at #politicallyreactive or email us at politicallyreactive@firstlook.org.

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up, hurry?

0:04.0

I don't know, man.

0:07.0

I don't know.

0:08.0

It's, for those of you who have put this podcast on and wonder why it doesn't have its

0:16.3

normal sound effects and various other elements, it's because it seems a little ridiculous to

0:23.6

do today.

0:24.6

Today's kind of a weird day of mourning as Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton.

0:30.6

And I think I don't see the point of, like, hold up, wait a minute, is this whole episode?

0:36.0

Donald Trump won.

0:38.0

Hold up, wait a minute.

0:41.0

Like, this is what this is.

0:43.0

It's just the shock of it.

0:44.4

I mean, I woke up this morning.

0:46.9

It's still stunned.

0:47.9

I walk out the kind of silence that was in my neighborhood.

0:52.0

It was eerie.

0:54.0

Like, I went out when it was, usually, it's busiest in the morning and it was nothing.

0:58.5

I couldn't hear anything.

1:00.3

There was nobody out there.

1:02.4

The last time I felt like that is when 9-11 happened, I remember just, even weeks after

1:08.4

there was just a numbness and everyone looking at each other with sadness and it had that

1:13.4

feeling again.

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