Social media has been ablaze lately with hundreds of thousands of reposts of an open letter to Donald Trump that was posted on the Humans of New York Facebook page. Now ... if you know me, you know that I can't stand the man at all. I think Trump is an inexperienced wannabe politician, a businessman with a potty mouth and someone who I don't believe can empathize with Americans at all. I wanted to write my reaction to reading this letter, but what I quickly realized was that it was more of an open letter to Trump from myself than anything. So that's exactly what I'm going to do today.

"I've come to realize that opposing you is not a political decision. It is a moral one."

Mr. Stanton, thank you for saying the words a lot of us are scared to say. It is not morally right to justify a man that makes fun of obese people, Islamic people, or those with special needs. It is not morally right to make generalizations of entire groups of people based off what a handful of extremists say or do.

But, Mr. Trump, here is one thing that Stanton didn't say to you that I want to. America is still great. It is still the land of the free and the home of the brave. This is still the land of opportunity. We don't need to make America great again because she was, is and will continue to be great.

No economy or government is perfect, there will always be flaws that need attention and solutions. Stop using this statement as a way to instill in American's minds that the country they live in has fallen to pieces. Sure there are some kinks we gotta work out, but stop with the perpetuation of a lie that our country just suddenly in the last eight years went completely to crap because of a democratic president.

Another thing, Mr. Trump. You speak these words that encourage violence and your tone is full of hatred. I believe my Mama said it best when she told me at a very young age, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." I've stood by this and kept my mouth shut about you for far too long. Your anger has now caused me to become angry. It's infectious and it's distasteful.

Instead of uniting the citizens of all 50 states, you have instead chosen to further divide us based on race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class and political affiliation. These walls you want to build are only meant to divide us further, when we should be building bridges of understanding, knowledge and acceptance. WE cannot condone this type of rhetoric anymore. It is not a joke, it is not funny.

Now, I know there is someone out there reading this that completely disagrees with me on everything I have said. And to that person, I respect you and your beliefs and opinions. You are just as much of an American as I am, and you are just as entitled to your beliefs and ideologies as I am. But I want you to understand that violence met with violence and hatred met with hatred do not accomplish anything. It's counterproductive, a waste of our time, and frankly a waste of the tax dollars that I personally am paying to the state and federal governments.

This was a land that was founded because of religious freedom, and because our ancestors were being oppressed. We often hear and use the phrase "America is a melting pot," and I have a major issue with it. When we take all of these awesome differences we have and melt them down what are we left with? An "American" that doesn't retain any of those features that made them so unique in the first place.

So for me, I like to consider America to be a big salad bowl. We all retain our own flavors and textures that make us who we are and then we drench ourselves in Americana or "dressing" if you will. that is the kind of America that we should all be striving for. Not one where you must be a straight, white, working class citizen to reap any kind of benefits or enjoyment of being American.

I dream of an America where our differences are the very things that unite us. Where our neighbors, brothers and sisters, friends and family no longer see each other through shallow labels, but where we immerse ourselves in cultures from across the globe. Let that be the American example we set for future generations.