Just got off the phone with an Arab American friend with family in a country on the Muslim Ban list. She was broken. “Maybe it’s time to stop fighting. Maybe we just have to accept that America is just another country. There’s nothing special here. This can’t be home.”
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I wanted to tell her we could never stop fighting, giving in is a win for the bigots & racists. But you know what? They did win. They won big. And even though I will never give up fighting, the uphill battle has become something very different. We now speak different languages.
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When I say constitution, bill of rights, they don’t mean the same thing anymore. They exist as figments of an imagination that has no foothold in the present-Like a cartoon where the running character looks down & realizes they’ve run out of road, they’re floating above a ravine.
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Like holding a wad full of a currency no longer accepted by vendors. I can’t sugarcoat it. America let me down today. Tomorrow I will get up & keep fighting, keep hoping,keep remembering the good that defines this young nation that gave me a home & an identity. But today,I mourn.
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Why do you need to invade someone else's country again?
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