SOUTH AFRICA. November 3, 2020. Today I spent some time with a historian lecturer at UCT whose based in Cape Town but originally from Oakland, California. She voted via absentee ballot from South Africa. Like everyone in the world, she is worried about what the future holds for Black Americans. Below are her words: “It's just ironic that today we literally are fighting for a White house that was built by slaves. The sacrifice, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the recurring racism, and systemic oppression that black people face, the degradation of the female body, the brutalization of black men. Black folks have been left out of so much of the American purpose and ethos. Black people have been left out again from the very same White House that they built. I, too am American. It's a black cry to remember us, our stories, and that we are part of the future of the country." Spending time with Tayler today got me thinking about what the future holds for Black people in the world.