Black maga didn’t just cast a vote. They cast a vote against their own people. They voted for the purging of Black leadership from high-ranking government positions. They voted for Black women to lose federal jobs and opportunities their ancestors fought to open. They voted for the criminalization and mass targeting of Black and Brown immigrants. They voted for the dismantling of the Department of Education while our children are already under attack educationally. They voted for the rollback of civil rights protections and the continued gutting of the Voting Rights Act. They voted for maps designed to dilute Black voting power and eliminate congressional districts represented by Black voices. They voted for the erasure of Black history, as though our struggle and contributions are something to be hidden in shame. They voted for a political culture that excuses corruption, cruelty, racism, authoritarianism, and the protection of pedophiles and predators. They voted for white supremacy, white domination, and Black subjugation and dehumanization. And the tragedy is this: our ancestors marched, bled, prayed, fought, were beaten, jailed, and murdered to move us forward, while some among us willingly voted to drag us backward toward the very Jim Crow systems they struggled to destroy. History will remember that in a moment when Black people were under coordinated attack politically, economically, educationally, and socially, some people still chose proximity to whiteness over solidarity with their own community. We must never let them forget what they did. They should never be invited back to the cookout again. They should be shunned, excommunicated, shut out, canceled, ostracized, dismissed, and shamed.