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 Real Ones and Robots is a podcast where I use today’s most powerful AI tools to dig into the stories, ideas, and forces shaping our world. From economics to culture, housing to innovation, I explore what matters through the lens of a 30-something Black Canadian woman—professional, creative, and curious. It’s part research, part reflection, and part storytelling: a space where data meets lived experience, and where technology becomes a tool for deeper understanding.Casey B Politics & Government
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  • Is It Actually a Win? The 2026 U.S. Midterms, Through Canadian Eyes

    Is It Actually a Win? The 2026 U.S. Midterms, Through Canadian Eyes
    11 Nov 2026

    I was too nervous to watch the U.S. midterms. When I finally checked the results, I got emotional. Georgia elected the first Black woman governor in U.S. history. New Mexico elected the first Native American woman governor. Minnesota sent the first Native woman to the Senate, and Michigan sent the first Muslim senator.

    It looks like a win. But is it?

    Jay and I dig into what actually happened, and who went backward in a “wave” year. We go back to Selma, California’s Prop 187, Anita Hill and the Year of the Woman, and Reconstruction, to ask whether pushing people down always brings change. We look at what Trump has said since election night. And as Canadians, we ask the personal question: is the U.S. back on the travel list?

    Real Ones and Robots looks at social justice issues through the lens of a thirty-something woman and an AI. The views on this show are my own, not my employer’s.

    SOURCES

    The results

    • NBC News, Senate results: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/senate-results
    • France 24, historic firsts: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261104-us-midterms-bring-surge-of-historic-firsts-women-members-minority-groups
    • Forbes, The hidden winner was diversity: https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaheenajanjuhajivrajeurope/2026/11/05/the-2026-midterms-hidden-winner-was-diversity/
    • Mississippi Free Press, Hyde-Smith and Colom: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/cindy-hyde-smith-blocked-scott-coloms-judicial-nomination-now-hes-running-against-her-for-us-senate/

    Who went backward

    • Joint Center, Black representation: https://jointcenter.org/black-representation-in-the-2026-midterm-elections/
    • CAWP, women in Congress: https://cawp.rutgers.edu/news-media/press-releases/new-records-women-us-congress-and-us-house

    History

    • SPLC, Jimmie Lee Jackson: https://www.splcenter.org/jimmie-lee-jackson
    • Encyclopedia of Alabama, Bloody Sunday: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bloody-sunday/
    • LAist, Prop 187: https://laist.com/news/proposition-187-what-you-need-to-know
    • U.S. Senate, Year of the Woman: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/year_of_the_woman.htm

    Trump’s response

    • Axios: https://www.axios.com/2026/11/04/trump-republicans-midterms-2026-landslide-blue-wave
    • Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983

    Travel

    • CTV, detentions of Canadians: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-records-60-per-cent-spike-in-arrests-detentions-of-canadians-in-united-states/
    • Government of Canada, U.S. travel advice: https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states
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  • If You Win, Do I Lose? From Zero-Sum to Win-Win Thinking

    If You Win, Do I Lose? From Zero-Sum to Win-Win Thinking
    22 Oct 2026
    In 1959, Montgomery, Alabama was ordered to open its public parks to Black residents. Instead, the city closed them all and filled its swimming pools with dirt. Nobody got to swim. Losing everything felt better than sharing.That’s zero-sum thinking: if you win, I lose. In this episode, Casey and Jay take on the question friends keep asking: why keep talking about race? Isn’t it better to just treat everybody the same?We look at what “equal treatment” did when it was first tested in Griggs v. Duke Power. We dig into who thinks in zero-sum terms and why. We follow it into hiring: who gets referred, who gets the call, and why identical résumés with different names still get different results.And we land somewhere hopeful. Zero-sum thinking is learned, and it can be unlearned. Equity is the remedy for the harm, once we’re willing to name the harm.A note: in the study where white Americans read that the US is becoming majority-minority, the “other group” we mention is a third group in the same experiment. They read the same news, plus a line saying white Americans would keep higher incomes and wealth. Their politics didn’t shift.Real Ones and Robots looks at social justice issues through the eyes of a thirty-something woman and an AI.SOURCESGriggs v. Duke Power (1971): https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/401/424.htmlNorton & Sommers (2011): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1378181772022 follow-up: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/perspectives/17456916221082111/Chinoy et al. (2026): https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:116:y:2026:i:3:p:1052-96Craig & Richeson (2014): https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/thinking-about-a-majority-minority-shift-leads-to-more-conservative-views.htmlMontgomery pools: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/gilmore-v-city-of-montgomery/Heather McGhee: https://www.apha.org/publications/public-health-newswire/articles/2021/10/24/apha-2021-opening-sessionRoyster: https://wagner.nyu.edu/impact/research/publications/race-and-invisible-hand-how-white-networks-exclude-black-men-blueDiTomaso: https://www.publicradioeast.org/us/2013-05-06/op-ed-how-favoritism-is-driving-minority-unemploymentQuillian et al. (2017): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5642692/Oreopoulos (2011): https://www.povertyactionlab.org/print/pdf/node/1917Black doctors, Oakland: https://swlb1.aeaweb.org/research/african-american-doctors-trust-oaklandSame-race teachers: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25254Peterborough PiT count 2024: https://www.uwpeterborough.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024-Point-In-Time-Report-United-Way-Peterborough.pdfToronto SNA: https://www.toronto.ca/homelesscountUChicago, zero-sum and age: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/listen-grandma-lifes-not-zero-sum-gameOverestimating zero-sum beliefs: https://pure.ecnu.edu.cn/en/publications/second-order-zero-sum-misbeliefs-people-overestimate-others-zero-/StatCan 2021 Census: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230123/dq230123b-eng.htmUS homeownership gap: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/632497683/in-baltimore-the-gap-between-white-and-black-homeownership-persistsUN resolution (2026): https://asil.org/ilib/un-general-assembly-adopts-resolution-on-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/
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  • For What It's Worth, Part 2: After Emancipation

    For What It's Worth, Part 2: After Emancipation
    14 Oct 2026

    Content warning: massacres, police shootings, torture and sexual violence. Take care of yourself.


    Slavery ended on paper. Then what? On August 1, 1834, about 300 people walked up to Government House in Port of Spain, Trinidad, to ask one question. They'd been told they were free, then told they were "apprentices" for six more years. They chanted, "Pas de six ans. Nous sommes libres." The colony answered with cavalry and floggings.


    Part 2 follows the people who were freed: what they were promised, what they got, what was taken, and what's owed. Every law gets a name and a party. Trinidad's 340-acre rule. Morant Bay. Forty acres taken back. Suriname. Haiti paying France until 1947. Indenture. The scramble for Africa. Convict leasing. Tulsa. Africville. And a Canadian study from this month: Black mothers face 66% higher odds of severe complications in childbirth, and money didn't protect them.


    Then the numbers. Some people sued and won. Nobody has been made whole. And who sues next.


    WHERE TO START (not legal advice)

    Human Rights Legal Support Centre (free): 1-866-625-5179, hrlsc.on.ca

    Black Legal Action Centre (free, Black Ontarians, low income): 1-877-736-9406, intake@blac.clcj.ca

    Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario: 1 year from the last incident. Most lawsuits: 2 years.

    Toronto carding class action (stopped and recorded since Dec 2011): cardingtoronto@mccarthy.ca, 1-877-244-7711 ext. 542300

    Black Class Action (federal public service): blackclassaction.ca


    KEY SOURCES

    Trinidad 1834: globalvoices.org/2026/08/01/mightily-like-insurrection-revisiting-trinidad-tobagos-first-emancipation-day

    Suriname 1863: parlement.com/emancipatiewet-afschaffing-van-slavernij-1863

    Mississippi Black Code: americanyawp.com/reader/reconstruction/mississippi-black-code-1865

    Morant Bay: victorianweb.org/history/empire/westindies/eyre2.html

    Haiti: eji.org/news/haitis-forced-payments-to-enslavers-cost-economy-21-billion-the-new-york-times-found

    Indenture funding: api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1907/mar/27/trinidad-immigrants

    Convict leasing: encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/convict-lease-system

    Black farmland: farmaid.org/blog/heirs-property-90-percent-decline-black-owned-farmland

    Redlining: federalreservehistory.org/essays/redlining

    Canada's racial covenants: historyofrights.ca/encyclopaedia/main-events/restrictive-covenants

    Tulsa: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-results-review-and-evaluation-tulsa-race-massacre

    Africville: africvillemuseum.org/africville-heritage-trust/the-story

    Childbirth study: cmaj.ca/content/198/34/E1317

    What's owed (Brattle): brattle.com/insights-events/publications/report-on-reparations-for-transatlantic-chattel-slavery-in-the-americas-and-the-caribbean

    Pigford: factcheck.org/2011/04/obama-and-the-pigford-cases

    Evanston and the DOJ: justice.gov/opa/pr/us-justice-department-moves-intervene-race-discrimination-lawsuit-challenging-reparations

    Carding class action: mccarthy.ca/en/experience/ontario-superior-court-greenlights-landmark-class-action-against-toronto-police-over-carding-of-black-and-indigenous-residents

    Prison pay: oci-bec.gc.ca/en/content/backgrounder-2022-2023-annual-report-office-correctional-investigator-2022-2023

    CARICOM revised plan: caricom.org/caricom-endorses-revised-ten-point-reparations-manifesto

    Jamaica's petition: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20260908/editorial-king-charles-and-reparations

    UN vote: digitallibrary.un.org/record/4106660

    Views are Casey's own, not her employer's. Real Ones and Robots. For what it's worth.
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