As I scroll through my Facebook newsfeed, I see continuous posts about friends giving their vote to Donald Trump. And my heart sank.
Here is a letter to those who voted Trump.
I appreciate you taking your right to express your political integrity and voting for someone you are passionate about. I do.
However, to those of you who claim to vote and support Trump because you "could never vote for a baby killer", or due to the fact that abortion is against your religious beliefs, I have a little something I would like to say.
You have obviously never had any connection to sexual assault . You have obviously never had any connection to racism or inequality. You have obviously never had to hide a part of yourself, your identity, out of fear of being persecuted.
Because, if you have had any connection to these things, you would know that a part of you dies when you experience them. A part of you is crushed. The light is taken away and you feel empty and numb. A victim of sexual assault loses a part of themselves after the incident. It is unwillingly taken away from them, and there's no way of regaining that back. People who are judged, criticized, harmed, for being a certain race, or ethnicity, or nationality lose a part of their integrity, their self-worth. Those who have faced being persecuted due to the way they identify die a little when their rights are taken away. When they are told that they don't matter enough to be given basic American, human rights.
So I can't accept your logic that you chose Trump because of a pro-life/pro-choice debate. Because if that was truly the case, if humanity mattered that much to you, you would never brag about choosing a man who is the definition of rape culture, of racism, of homophobia. You would never support someone who embodies these things that suffocate the life out of people. Instead, you would support the silent majority and fight to give them a chance. You would fight to change the culture we have developed as a society that says it's okay to have "locker room talk". That it's okay to "build a wall to keep the bad hombres out". That it's okay that "the LGBTQ community shouldn't have guaranteed rights". That it's okay to take and drain the life away from someone who is just desperately trying to live their life.
Sincerely,
A victim of our society.
