As a brown person growing up in Utah & America the number of amazing & loving things I have experienced from my fellow Americans of many color, creed, gender, religion, & orientation infinitely out weight the number of times an ignorant person has tried to marginalize me.
I think people shouldn& #39;t focus too much about what a small group of racists who are forcefully pushing their agenda down our collective throat; we are all better than them collectively. The actions of a few doesn& #39;t represent the whole of what we& #39;ve forged as a nation.
Only in America can Sikhs, Tamels, Palestines, Jews, Muslims, Serbs, Croats, Arabs, English, French, Germans, Pakistanis, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, gays, straight, black, white, brown, & all of the rainbow of people live in harmony, love, & peace. America is amazing.
The murderous actions of a handful of racists against POC & the racist agenda of groups who want to stop the pace of our communal progress of a plural society doesn& #39;t define us whatsoever. They have always been around & will never be extinguished, evil will always exist.
Being an American is the most amazing thing to be. I LOVE our great nation & the resilience of our people who have the resolve to make it better. Everyday I love waking up in this great country & seeing the magnificent things that we build & create together.
All we can do is continue to work on creating a better society by teaching our children to be better than we are. They hold the keys to a brighter tomorrow by teaching them to love one another better than we have loved one another. Be cool to each other, we& #39;re in this together.