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A PSA to those who choose to stay silent in a time where representation is everything

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Attention all pro-lifers and #AllLivesMatter advocates: if you are SILENT during Trump's newly issued executive order banning 7 countries from entering the U.S., you are CONTRADICTING your own beliefs and efforts.

If you are pro-life, but you believe that banning human beings of whom are fleeing to foreign nations to seek refuge, or otherwise die, is justified because your "safety" and "freedom" is at "risk", then you are actually pro-privilege.

If you want to preach that #AllLivesMatter, but find no disgust nor angst towards the fact that families out there don't even know if they will make it through the night being that their lives have been throw into hell's reality and they have no safety to escape to, then you only believe that #AllChristianWhiteLivesMatter.

TELL ME HOW YOUR SAFETY HAS BEEN PUT AT RISK.

Was it while you were sitting in your suburban home, on your Tempur-Pedic mattress, covered by a heated blanket, while The Real Housewives of New York fills the screen, and you just finished your second glass of Merlot? No?

Oh, maybe it's while you sat in your kitchen watching Tucker Carlson Tonight as your sole source of news,knowing that your semiautomatic shotgun was stashed on a shelf in the hallway closet just in case.

Wait I got it! It must've been while you were shopping for a new pair of shoes to match your outfit for the work party on Friday night to commemorate Chad's 20th year with the company!

No? Really?

Ok then, give me an example of when you you felt as if your safety had been threatened by a Muslim during your everyday life.. Tell me about a time where a waterfall of gunfire came down on your home and you guarded your children's heads with the entirety of your body. During that time were you praying that wasn't the day those innocent souls experience a surge of excruciating physical pain? Did it happens for months on end? Tell me when you crossed a sea at night hoping to make it to land before the sun came up. Tell me when you pulled limp bodies out of rubble after an explosion. Tell me when you couldn't find your loved ones after your city went up in flames and ash began to cover all you had known. Tell me when a Muslim harmed you.

Tell me because I really don't understand. I myself do not lack a sense of human decency. We live in the United States of America. We are P R I V I L E G E D. We are A B L E to help people in need, but instead (here's a shock) Donald Trump's America only extends a helping hand to people who worship under Christianity and wade around in their white privilege.

Call me crazy, but this is about race. This is about a man who equates the Muslim religion with terrorism. If you want to keep that mindset, then I bet we can agree that all white people were apart of the KKK or Hitler's Nazi Regime, right? That's logical thinking, correct? That's not discriminatory at all! I mean OBVIOUSLY Muslim refugees aren't actually seeking asylum, but rather want to come in and take your freedom away, right?

Wake up. Be a decent human being. Stand up for literally everything you've ever advocated for in the past. Your #AllLivesMatter should be taken literally; it shouldn't be limited to an unborn mass of cells or law enforcement official. Do not invalidate your actions by only speaking for the feww, when it is the masses who need a voice. Ask yourself if you are truly standing for whatever it is you believe in. Check your privilege, love your neighbor.


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