4. I feel vindicated as I watch people reconfirm that it was never about the economy.

3. Watching people proudly vote against their own interests then hopscotch around the real reason why they did it has been entertaining. Spoiler alert: we know that you did it because you didn’t want to vote for a Black woman

2. I realized that people were working so hard to engage because they expected, after people ignored what we said, for us to still fix things LIKE WE NORMALLY DO.

1. I was stunned when people kept trying to engage Black women post election after we politely said “take us out of the group chat” I mean, people were going out of their way to tell us that we didn’t matter. Why are you so interested now?

Ok, I’ve given folks a month to speak without interruption- I’m back and I have a few observations: