November 6, 2024 • 12 mins
Host Ramses Ja reflects on the aftermath of Election Day 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast, and I'm
your host, rams' Jah. And sometimes the amount of stories
that make their way to us means that we simply
can't cover everything that comes our way. But from time
to time, a story just stays with me and Bill
compelled to share it with you and give you my thoughts.
And now one more thing, So today this episode really
(00:27):
earns its name.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
One more thing. Last night history was made. Donald Trump
retook the White House after losing in twenty twenty, and
(00:52):
when we were trying to envision a world where black
history would be made, feels like, at least around here
with me and Q, we're on the on the brink
of saying goodbye to Black history entirely. Yeah, I can't
(01:16):
pretend like that was was easy. So let's uh, let's
see what we got. You know, there's a lot of
people pointing a lot of fingers. Of course, as happens
after every election. I know that the economist has made
(01:38):
a case that Hispanic men helped get Donald Trump into
the White House. And I could see that, you know,
Democrats can no longer reliably depend on Hispanic men to
show up for them. Then there are people who are
(01:58):
making the case that black men grease the gears a bit.
You know, black men, you know, there was some truth
to black men voting for Donald Trump in record numbers.
It wasn't the records that the headlines would have had
(02:19):
us believe, but you know, black men did shift away
from their reliably democratic roots, and again that may have
greased the gears for other folks to take a second look.
White women, wow, wow, Uh yeah, there's a lot of
(02:47):
women's rights on the ballot this year, and white women
turned out to vote for Donald Trump. So you know,
whiteness goes a little further than I thought. You know,
Q called that, but yeah, and uh, you know, there
(03:12):
was a lot of people that didn't vote. That is
clearly illustrated by the relatively low voter turnout. Even if
Kamala Harris ended up with all the third party candidate votes,
she still would have lost. The Democrats have a long
(03:40):
way to go and a lot to learn from Republicans.
The politics is as dirty as I've ever seen, filled
with lies and scare scare tactics in fear mongering, and Democrats,
to be fair, tried to play the fear mongering game
(04:01):
by pinning Trump to project twenty twenty five, which is
probably what they should have done, despite Trump trying to
distance himself from it and attach himself to Agenda forty seven.
You know, the Democrats never pivoted with him. They still
(04:22):
tried to anchor him to Project twenty twenty five. And
as Trump was pivoting, folks who were susceptible, folks who
were in the middle, folks who were still interested could
just dismiss the Project twenty twenty five rhetoric, as you know,
being false information spewed by the Democrats trying to connect
(04:45):
him to something that wasn't his. But you know what,
we could go back and forth on all this. You know,
we this this was a serious loss. I can't pretend
it wasn't. The House is under Republican control, and at
present I have no reason to assume that, or sorry,
(05:08):
the Senate is under Republican control, and at this point
I have no reason to assume that the House won't
go to Republicans as well. Of course, the Supreme Court
is a conservative Supreme Court. So if Project twenty twenty
five was something that they wanted to do, well, they
(05:31):
got four years to implement it, or at least two
years to implement it however they see fit, and the
implications will last for generations. And that brings me to
the point of this episode of one more thing. Now,
(05:54):
we really have to and I'll speak for myself, I
really have to take inventory of who is in this country.
We have a population that is not incredibly politically sophisticated,
(06:15):
not incredibly well educated on a global scale, And we
have a population that can excuse not only racist behavior
and rhetoric, but can look past so many shortcomings provided
(06:44):
that the person is a white man. They can look
past so many shortcomings at the expense of so many
people if they feel that somehow it's in their best interest.
(07:04):
There's a great moral question that comes up every so
often throughout you know, humanity. Our humans inherently good? Are
are humans inherently bad? And of course it's never as
simple as that. But when you look at those who
(07:29):
consider other people, consider what the world might be like
for other people, for trans people, for immigrants, for marginalized people,
for people who were born with some sort of strike
against them. Do we live in a society that will
(07:51):
prioritize their individual best interests or the best interest of
a society? And I think we have a clearer idea
of exactly how far folks are willing to go if
(08:13):
they believe that something might be in their best interest. Now,
I recognize that a lot of people were Trump supporters
that listened to the show, and I famously am not.
I can never be that. I love my people too much.
(08:36):
I love people too much to look at an individual
and look past all of his very obvious shortcomings. I
see the loss as a loss not just for myself,
(08:57):
not just for my people, not just for this country,
but for the world. This pulls everything further to the right.
Everything the world is watching. They've seen it work, They've
seen low voter turnout for Democrats, and again it pulls
(09:18):
everything to the right. So at this point I have
to get louder. I have to be stronger. I have
to stand up for what I believe in. I have
to motivate people, have to galvanize people. I cannot forget
(09:40):
who I am. I cannot forget who my children are.
I cannot forget who ques children are. I cannot forget
who your children are. I cannot forget that they deserve
a world that's better than the one that I was
born into. Because I got a better world than the
ones that my fathers and grandfathers were born into. This
(10:04):
is the debt that I owe to my children's children,
and they deserve a minimum for me to continue to
fight for it. Now, this moment has to have hope.
This moment has to have optimism, and for me it does.
It's a sober moment and a somber moment, but I'm optimistic. Otherwise,
(10:31):
what's the point, right? I will continue to say that
your vote counts, because it does, especially when it actually counts,
when everybody votes. I will continue to say that, at
(11:00):
least around here, we're going to keep doing what we
have to do to bring light to issues that matter,
to bring microphones to voices that matter, and hopefully find
a way to appeal to that shared sense of humanity
(11:23):
for people who might have lost sight of that in
this recent election. So hopefully that provides, if not some comfort,
some marching orders, and with that, back to work. This
(11:45):
has been a production of the Black Information Network. Today's
show is produced by Chris Thompson. Have some thoughts you'd
like to share, use the red microphone.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. While you're there, be
sure to hit subscribing down with all of our episodes,
I'm your host, ramses Job on all social media. Join
us tomorrow as we share our news with our voice
from our perspective right here on the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast
This is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast, and I'm
your host, rams' Jah. And sometimes the amount of stories
that make their way to us means that we simply
can't cover everything that comes our way. But from time
to time, a story just stays with me and Bill
compelled to share it with you and give you my thoughts.
And now one more thing, So today this episode really
(00:27):
earns its name.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
One more thing. Last night history was made. Donald Trump
retook the White House after losing in twenty twenty, and
(00:52):
when we were trying to envision a world where black
history would be made, feels like, at least around here
with me and Q, we're on the on the brink
of saying goodbye to Black history entirely. Yeah, I can't
(01:16):
pretend like that was was easy. So let's uh, let's
see what we got. You know, there's a lot of
people pointing a lot of fingers. Of course, as happens
after every election. I know that the economist has made
(01:38):
a case that Hispanic men helped get Donald Trump into
the White House. And I could see that, you know,
Democrats can no longer reliably depend on Hispanic men to
show up for them. Then there are people who are
(01:58):
making the case that black men grease the gears a bit.
You know, black men, you know, there was some truth
to black men voting for Donald Trump in record numbers.
It wasn't the records that the headlines would have had
(02:19):
us believe, but you know, black men did shift away
from their reliably democratic roots, and again that may have
greased the gears for other folks to take a second look.
White women, wow, wow, Uh yeah, there's a lot of
(02:47):
women's rights on the ballot this year, and white women
turned out to vote for Donald Trump. So you know,
whiteness goes a little further than I thought. You know,
Q called that, but yeah, and uh, you know, there
(03:12):
was a lot of people that didn't vote. That is
clearly illustrated by the relatively low voter turnout. Even if
Kamala Harris ended up with all the third party candidate votes,
she still would have lost. The Democrats have a long
(03:40):
way to go and a lot to learn from Republicans.
The politics is as dirty as I've ever seen, filled
with lies and scare scare tactics in fear mongering, and Democrats,
to be fair, tried to play the fear mongering game
(04:01):
by pinning Trump to project twenty twenty five, which is
probably what they should have done, despite Trump trying to
distance himself from it and attach himself to Agenda forty seven.
You know, the Democrats never pivoted with him. They still
(04:22):
tried to anchor him to Project twenty twenty five. And
as Trump was pivoting, folks who were susceptible, folks who
were in the middle, folks who were still interested could
just dismiss the Project twenty twenty five rhetoric, as you know,
being false information spewed by the Democrats trying to connect
(04:45):
him to something that wasn't his. But you know what,
we could go back and forth on all this. You know,
we this this was a serious loss. I can't pretend
it wasn't. The House is under Republican control, and at
present I have no reason to assume that, or sorry,
(05:08):
the Senate is under Republican control, and at this point
I have no reason to assume that the House won't
go to Republicans as well. Of course, the Supreme Court
is a conservative Supreme Court. So if Project twenty twenty
five was something that they wanted to do, well, they
(05:31):
got four years to implement it, or at least two
years to implement it however they see fit, and the
implications will last for generations. And that brings me to
the point of this episode of one more thing. Now,
(05:54):
we really have to and I'll speak for myself, I
really have to take inventory of who is in this country.
We have a population that is not incredibly politically sophisticated,
(06:15):
not incredibly well educated on a global scale, And we
have a population that can excuse not only racist behavior
and rhetoric, but can look past so many shortcomings provided
(06:44):
that the person is a white man. They can look
past so many shortcomings at the expense of so many
people if they feel that somehow it's in their best interest.
(07:04):
There's a great moral question that comes up every so
often throughout you know, humanity. Our humans inherently good? Are
are humans inherently bad? And of course it's never as
simple as that. But when you look at those who
(07:29):
consider other people, consider what the world might be like
for other people, for trans people, for immigrants, for marginalized people,
for people who were born with some sort of strike
against them. Do we live in a society that will
(07:51):
prioritize their individual best interests or the best interest of
a society? And I think we have a clearer idea
of exactly how far folks are willing to go if
(08:13):
they believe that something might be in their best interest. Now,
I recognize that a lot of people were Trump supporters
that listened to the show, and I famously am not.
I can never be that. I love my people too much.
(08:36):
I love people too much to look at an individual
and look past all of his very obvious shortcomings. I
see the loss as a loss not just for myself,
(08:57):
not just for my people, not just for this country,
but for the world. This pulls everything further to the right.
Everything the world is watching. They've seen it work, They've
seen low voter turnout for Democrats, and again it pulls
(09:18):
everything to the right. So at this point I have
to get louder. I have to be stronger. I have
to stand up for what I believe in. I have
to motivate people, have to galvanize people. I cannot forget
(09:40):
who I am. I cannot forget who my children are.
I cannot forget who ques children are. I cannot forget
who your children are. I cannot forget that they deserve
a world that's better than the one that I was
born into. Because I got a better world than the
ones that my fathers and grandfathers were born into. This
(10:04):
is the debt that I owe to my children's children,
and they deserve a minimum for me to continue to
fight for it. Now, this moment has to have hope.
This moment has to have optimism, and for me it does.
It's a sober moment and a somber moment, but I'm optimistic. Otherwise,
(10:31):
what's the point, right? I will continue to say that
your vote counts, because it does, especially when it actually counts,
when everybody votes. I will continue to say that, at
(11:00):
least around here, we're going to keep doing what we
have to do to bring light to issues that matter,
to bring microphones to voices that matter, and hopefully find
a way to appeal to that shared sense of humanity
(11:23):
for people who might have lost sight of that in
this recent election. So hopefully that provides, if not some comfort,
some marching orders, and with that, back to work. This
(11:45):
has been a production of the Black Information Network. Today's
show is produced by Chris Thompson. Have some thoughts you'd
like to share, use the red microphone.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. While you're there, be
sure to hit subscribing down with all of our episodes,
I'm your host, ramses Job on all social media. Join
us tomorrow as we share our news with our voice
from our perspective right here on the Black Information Network
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