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I Hate Politics

But why I'm talking about them today

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I Hate Politics
Brandi Holaday

To America,

Listen, I know you are all sick and tired of hearing about Trump and the elections. Trust me, I know. To be completely honest, I hate politics. I really and truly do. They bore me and they start unnecessary drama with people who do not understand that a difference in opinion does not mean the end of the world. So yeah, I hate politics, but I’m going to be real serious with you right now America.

We made a mistake.

I’m not talking about electing either a Democrat or a Republican, I’m talking about how we allowed a blatantly racist and sexist man to be elected as the leader of this country and we should be ashamed.

We allowed a man who spews hate and hurtful claims like they are the air he breathes. We allowed people to think that the hate they harbor for people of a certain color or sexual orientation is justified because of a man who we put into a seat of power tells them it's okay.

But it's not.

It's not okay that people are afraid to walk out of their homes because they think people are going to attack them. It's not okay that people have been attacked in the last week. It's not okay that we are having these messages of hate plastered around like they are some advertisement slogan that you can't get out of your head. It's not okay.

Do not get me wrong, I am not naive enough to think that this is an issue that has just arisen from the election of Trump. No. Our country has a long history embedded with hate and violence to those who do not fit the mold of what it means to be "American."

So, no, this hate and blatant injustice towards minorities is nothing new, but now we have a man who is seated as the representative of our country telling not only our own citizens but the world that we are no better than before.

That after 154 years of supposed freedom, Black lives are still being killed by white men with no repercussions, that gay men and women are still being told that they are unnatural because they love a member of their own gender.

On November 8, 2016, we told the world that our country is a joke. We made a mistake that we can't fix.

Because even if we did remove Trump from the presidency, it won't wipe the stain that he was voted into office in the first place. We will never be able to erase that fact that we voted for a man who thinks building a wall is the solution to our "immigrant problem" and a man who thinks you can be shocked out of being gay. History will forever remember those choices.

And we will have to live with that.

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