How could you...

Dear people from the USA,

Did you ever think you were going to reach this point in your life that you had divided your nation in two brightly colored sides?

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Do you know how would you react when your 14-year old daughter comes home devastated because she was body shamed? How could you if you elected a man who body shames everyone

Do you know how would you deal when your KKK neighbor kills your dark-skinned son, despite both being as American as the American flag? How would you even react to that when you put a man like that in the Oval Office. A man who finds pleasure in stating that white skin is what made the USA great

Do you know how would you hug the dark-skinned highly-prepared immigrant who just saved your twin sister after that massive car accident? How could you do that when the man sitting in the most powerful seat on your nation has set as a norm that all immigrants are unprepared and dangerous aliens

Do you know how would you deal when your sweet boy comes home because he was bullied to tears while everyone else laugh to their (sick) hearts content? How could you, when you have placed the biggest bully ever on American history in the White House

Do you know what you will do when your handicapped daughter is mocked and kicked just because she has different capabilities? How could you when the man you elected President of your nation points and laughs and people with disabilities

Do you know what you will do when the love of your life is being sent back to what is not ‘home’ anymore just because he wanted to live the American Dream? How could you when you elected a man that does not believe on the richness of a nation built on immigrants

Do you know how would you react when your wife was sexually molested to the point that she took her own life? How could you when you elected a man that boasts about his sexual advances and believes he has the right to

Do you know how would you react when you don’t get that job, for which you are fully qualified, just because you are a woman? How could you when you elected a man that sees womanhood as a problem

How could you…  

I know I couldn’t. It will be too arrogant to believe I am exempted of any of this happening to me and my loved ones. I try to live what I preach. I try to walk the talk. I try to raise my children in a way that they learn about empathy, respect and love. To show them that there is beauty in difference. How could I push them to be better, to be nice. To care. How could I tell them that such behavior is not accepted in the big wide world. On what grounds could I continue raising my children to become good human beings and live to the standards set by a decent society. It will be very hard, I know.

Please spare the world of such an embarrassment. Spare us from having to fight against what will become the new norm: misogyny, racism, bigotry. A place where love is no longer the norm. Where hatred marks your steps along the road and disrespect flows everywhere. Please. This is not the time to fight against the system. Now is the time to make sense and show the world that the USA is already great. That the USA is a nation that leads by example and where you can still reach your American Dream.