Tomorrow isn’t just an important election. It’s a referendum on the nature of the American soul.
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When one American friend took my mother shopping at a mall, she prevented a minor disaster by explaining that you have pay for items at the store where you bought them. Not at the exit of the mall.
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My parents didn’t just become Americans. They were helped to become Americans. They were surrounded by people who loved their country so much that they were proud to share it. Who weren’t necessarily cosmopolitans themselves but also weren’t racist.
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As I think of this election, I think of the many white people who shaped my parents’ early life in America. There is something in their spirit that we need to reconnect with as a country. National pride leading to welcoming, not walls. Otherness inspiring curiosity, not cruelty.
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Tomorrow is many things. And one of them is a chance for white America to show what it is made of. A chance for it to send an unambiguous roar of love into the world. A chance to own the truth that this country has always stayed truest to itself by changing.
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On a side note, I’m gonna ask everyone to call be B-12 now. Saves me so much trouble!
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