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It's Not The End, It Is The Beginning...

Donald Trump doesn't have as much power as the American people are united.

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It's Not The End, It Is The Beginning...

It has been one heck of a week. It has been a tiring almost two years. We have watched nominees and campaigns thrive and die. We have seen people hurt and people hiding in fear. It has been what feels like a decade of watching what we thought was a joke continue. November 9th, was the longest day for me. In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, I have felt multiple things. I cannot sit here and tell you that for the last year and a half of his campaigning that I have been a Trump supporter, quite the opposite actually. I have seen things about him come to light and see his policies and cringe with fear that this man will run and represent our country.

What I can do is sit here and tell you that I am not going to do. I am not going to allow what has been seen as horrifying and simply exhausting. I am not going to let what has been seen as hate and what is perpetrated as hate drive me. I am going to show love and compassion to those who feel that hate rhetoric is the way to make American great again. I will be there with empathy and open ears for the marginalized group who are struck with fear. Mourning is needed and time for some cathartic release. There is not a specific time to which mourning is allotted but whenever we have completed mourning it is time to fight. Fear can overwhelm use unless we use our voices and fight back. We have the ability to not use violence but use our intelligent and ability to fight for our marginalized groups. There is power in our groups and our differences.

The election of Donald Trump is not the end it is the beginning. It is the continuation of our fighting and our presence in our cultural and structural change. The beginning is here to start to make changes and to continuation of what we need to change. We are allowed to be sad and we are in a state of fear but we are not alone. We have each other and hopefully we can unite from all sides and make the change that we want in our country. Through the protests and through our voices needing to be heard we can make those steps. Donald Trump is our president but he is not the only person who can changes. He is not the one person who makes all the rules, we the people are America. We are the people in charge and representing our country. This is the beginning of continuing the change not the end of it.

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