I love you, whoever you voted for

Excellent analysis from Ari Melber, quoting Shakespeare and Tupac:

 

Trump is going, going, gone. Still, we're stuck with ourselves.

The most disturbing ah-ha moment in the clip above is when Melber points this out: when you walk into a room full of registered white voters, most of them voted for Donald Trump. Not in 2016, but in 2020. After all Trump has done to disenfranchise our BIPOC brothers and sisters during his four years in power, a majority of white people still chose hate over love.

White people: we can do better.

White people: now is the time.

White people: listen.

Now is the time for us to stop and listen to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We need to unlearn the biases and bigotry ingrained into us since birth as citizens of a country founded on the morally reprehensible ideas and actions of white supremacy. 

Now is the time to open our hearts and our minds, to accept the call to love our neighbors—ALL our neighbors—as we love ourselves. 

White people: if you struggle to love your BIPOC neighbors, start with yourself. A person who truly loves themself has no room for hatred of others. 

Despite my political beliefs, I love you, whoever you voted for. I have no room in my heart for hatred. Let’s listen and learn and grow, together. Love is an action verb.