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identity from NPR. I'm B.A. Parker. And I'm Gene Demby. We know there's a lot going on in the

world right now, but let's be real.

Is anyone's mind on anything besides the results of the election?

We just spent so many months listening to pundit after pundit, speculating about which way this was going to go.

We watched the candidates make their pitches in Wisconsin and Arizona and Pennsylvania and North Carolina, fighting for those last few swing voters.

So here on Code Switch, we try to understand how all sorts of people were going to vote.

Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan.

This community has never been a one-issue kind of community, one-issue vote. Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan? This community has never been a one-issue kind of community, one-issue vote. But I heard actually someone say, if I'm going to become a one-issue voter

and that issue is genocide, I'm okay with it. My stance is and continues to be that it is no longer a question of how can you win me back.

It is a question of how can I hold you accountable for the lives lost.

Young black men who have been sucked into the manosphere.

Men of this generation are looking at their grandfathers and really their grandfathers looking at them and saying,

what's the problem with you?

When I was your age, I had a car, a wife, I was supporting my family.

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