So that happened. [wyd? 11.15.16]

Welcome to the morning after: a moment that will last from now until at least 2020. There’s no way to ctrl+alt+del the situation, so if you run into a white person, ask them to smack one of their relatives for you. Or themselves. And if, God forbid, you encounter a Trump stan in the flesh, let them know they elected a monster and their vote was a hate crime. Oh — and read this spot-on thinkpiece that articulates exactly how the entire fam at #WeBuiltThis feels.

WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS

• In case this last week hasn’t been hard enough, we lost a journalistic legend — Gwen Ifill succumbed to cancer at the age of 61. When asked about the importance of journalism last year, Ifill replied, “We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.” Rest in power.
• Black folks still managed to shut it down at the state and local level last week: Kamala, Chris, Ilhan, Aramis, Catherine, Kim and Lisa. Did we say folks? We meant Black wimmen.
• Donald Trump is stocking his cupboard with an assortment of unsavory assholes. First up? Steve Bannon, white nationalist troll king of the “alt-right” (read: The White Men With Hurt Feelings Club) and avowed enemy of all things that resemble, smell like or rhyme with freedom. Y’all, even Glenn Beck thinks this dude is wildin. It hasn’t been a week, and white people are already acting like they’re on the set of the original Birth of a Nation.
• Ben Carson must have dipped when he realized he was joining a glorified lynch mob, because we all know this fool doesn’t really believe he would’ve crippled the presidency. Didn’t we say that in February when… Never mind.

#NeverForget

​WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON?

• “We affirm our existence. We affirm our right to not only live, but to thrive.” This morning, Black Lives Matter issued a statement about Trump’s election. Chills, yo. We ain’t shook. “The work will be harder, but the work is the same.” Let’s keep building.
• “There is no ‘jobs’ message that does not recognize how much higher Black unemployment always is. There is no ‘1%’ message that does not discuss how Black and Brown people have been prevented from wealth building measures and targeted by predatory lending. Not anymore.” These politicians don’t hear us, tho. They gon learn today.

BLACKITY BLACK: EXCELLENCE, JOY & MAGIC

• What happened when Black Twitter asked what we look like we do for a living?? SMH. Y’all already know… The roasts came just in time for Thanksgiving.
• Speaking of Thanksgiving, what y’all eating this year tho? Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lambs, rams, hogs, logs?? This song reminds us we’ve got something to look forward to in this cold, dead world: all the foodz. We’re about to eat these feelings, y’all.
• These Obama-Biden memes are also helping us hold it together as January 20 comes barreling towards us. What a week for meme solace.

For freedom,
#WeBuiltThis

P.S. If white people are supposed to be so supreme, why Obama gotta stay after school to help Trump with his homework? We’ll wait.