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What A Week

With all the smoke in the air in Asheville, you might think that something bad happened.

Without a doubt, this has been one of America's weirdest weeks ever. I don't care who you voted for, no one truly expected a Trump win. As I watched the coverage on CNN, a Trump supporter literally said, "It'll take a miracle for a Trump win."

Seriously, this week has been nuts.

This week, we learned that Colin Kaepernick (of the fantastic 'fro and the kneeling during the national anthem fame) didn't vote. This week, we learned that our country has been harboring some hate for some time. And this week, the mountains have burned around us.

But you know what? We're gonna be okay. It's a fact. People are coming together in ways that I haven't seen since the attacks on 9/11. There's tons of people reaching out to help those who are down, to help those whose rights and, in some cases, lives are at risk.

I was at an Ingrid Michaelson concert last night in Charlotte. The concert was also an event to talk about some of the issues currently facing the LGBTQ community and HB-2's impact on them. And at that concert, I saw an outpouring of people, many of them younger than me, reaching out to help. That's an encouraging thing.

Tuesday was a big turning point in America and it leaves us with only two options (Didn't we just do the "only two options" thing?). We can either sit on this anger, this injustice that you may or not feel based on Tuesday's results, or we can move the fuck on. We knew this was a possibility the second he won the nomination. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. But here's the real truth. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but if we keep working and coming together like this, then we can truly capable of real change.


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