As some of you may know (or not, I don't know if anyone else outside of my social network reads these things), I received a message that, although is a pretty empty message, stated that the sender could not wait for Trump to round me up in a concentration camp and work me to death.
This came to me after I had spent a large part of the morning trying to not break down from the rapid influx of fear and despair as I read article after article reporting hate crimes that broke out across the nation after the results of the election. (All of which can be read about in the Southern Poverty Law Center's article here: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/11/over-200-incidents-hateful-harassment-and-intimidation-election-day)
I had just left my first class where I heard someone in the Germantown neighborhood in Louisville was shot in the face.
I live around that area. I didn't know if it was even connected to the election or not.
But fear for your life does a funny thing to your brain. It makes you paranoid. It makes you wonder if events can happen that are logical in a sense, but the thought behind it is skewed in such a way where it it not likely to happen. But fear also doesn't account for statistics of it happening either.
I was unable to concentrate on anything after that message was sent.
All I could think of was I had a target on my back, or between my eyes.
I couldn't go to my other classes. I went home and cried to my mom. I was wondering out loud that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to come out on Facebook. I thought that I was putting people I cared about in danger.
All because someone filled with hate decided to message me from an anonymous account set in Sharonville, Ohio.
Let me tell you:
I am not scared anymore.
I've done some light digging.
I've figured out more about you than you have about me.
I know that your name isn't actually John Miller.
And I bet you think you're cute using the same alias that Trump used.
I bet you think you are so sneaky having made a secondary account to post your hate without it getting traced back to who you really are.
Or maybe you really are that filled with hate to be proud of who you are and your name is as common as it sounds.
But I know that there is an anti-LGBT group nearby, as well as 33 other various hate group locations in the entire state of Ohio.
I circled the area in which Sharonville is located within:
And for good measure, here is a map marking Sharonville:
I may have approximated, but that seems pretty damn close to an anti-LGBT group known as the Citizens for Community Values.
You may have given me a message from a faceless (and gutless) account.
But you have given me information.
You gave your hate group away.
And to know I angered your little group is enough of a satisfaction for me to continue to do what I do on Facebook:
Spread positivity.
But today, I want to do more than that. I want Donald Trump to start taking responsibility. He wants to be the president for all of us Americans? He wants us to be together in unity?
Then he needs to accept responsibility for the rifts he tore open between us all. He needs to get that memo of unity across to those who are using his name like a brand to commit these atrocious hate crimes. He needs to take action and address these issues.
He was able to address these people at his rallies, he should be able to do it now.
And before people start throwing around, "he isn't president yet!" do you really think these groups of racist-infused hate are going to listen to our current president?
No. I didn't think so.
I have friends who support Trump. But they did not vote for this.
Love trumps hate. So let's show that. It will be hard for those of us who are terrified for our lives, but the moment we start hating them back or not trying to educate them on why we are afraid, is the moment we become just like those hate groups.
Those of you social media aficionados who support Trump, and will make sure he is accountable where he fails, use #notwhatIvotedfor to show him you will not allow him to stay silent on this.
To every one of you out there, stay safe, keep loving, and never be ashamed for who you are. You cannot and should not change whatever someone hates enough about you to act so horrible.
I have spent too long being who I am to stop now. And I will not stop. Nor will I ever.
However, this does not mean we will turn a blind eye to the hate that is happening. That is why we protest. That is why we are angry.
To quote JK Rowling's books that have always helped me through troubled times, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good."
And now all I can think to say to wrap this up is:
"Mischief Managed."























