…and this is what we’ve been told:
To my daughters: You are objects
To my black neighbors: Your lives don’t matter
To my Muslim and immigrant friends and family: There’s no place for you here
To my LGBTQ friends and family: You don’t deserve equal rights or protection
To America’s allies: We don’t honor our agreements
To Russia: Go for it
To reason: We value irrational thought over facts and science
To those whom you have mocked, berated, and physically and verbally attacked: Get over it; you’re being divisive when we need unity
To bigots, racists, misogynists, homophobes, and xenophobes: Your prejudices are legitimate and deserve respect and a voice
And here is my response. You have wiped away my self-deluding belief that the hate in this country couldn’t be this bad. So, I promise you these things:
- Count on me to push back;
- Count on me to speak up;
- Count on me to defend and protect those whom I love;
- Count on me to never again be complacent from a naive belief that we would never do anything so reckless, so self-destructive, or so opposite of what this country is supposed to mean.
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