After last night’s debate, so many of us are feeling disgusted and disheartened. I want to be really clear here though, while last night was ugly, chaotic and unacceptable in many ways both sides of this are not the same.

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When asked about the election, one candidate urged people watching to visit a voter registration website; to make a plan to vote that is safe for them given the still-climbing COVID cases around the country.

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The other candidate refused to comment on a transition if he loses, continued to lie about voter fraud, and urged his supporters to go watch the polls--which unless you’re functioning as an election observer and within those guidelines, is illegal.

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I’m voting for former Vice President Joe Biden, and I would urge you to as well.

Because at the end of the day, I still believe that a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” is an ideal worth striving for.

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At the end of the day, I want an America where white supremacy is handily and readily denounced at every turn and “the people” means more than just people who look like me.

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I’m voting for Joe Biden because while America may have been founded for the benefit of white land-owning men, I want us to keep striving to become the America people like MLK., Fannie Lou Hamer, Grace Lee Boggs, Alice Paul, César Chávez, and Bayard Rustin dreamed we could be.
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I’m voting for Joe Biden because the disillusionment and pull to sit this one out in disgust is a space afforded to me by the insulation of my privilege...

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...and loving my neighbor means recognizing privilege is not a permission slip to allow my neighbor to be harmed because I don’t want to be bothered by parsing out uncomfortable truths from appealing lies.

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