If anything good came out of this, its that I feel angry now. Whereas before if I was speaking with someone who would throw in subtle (or not so subtle) barbs and negatives about president Obama or our country, I would bite my tongue because I wanted to be polite and keep things cordial. I will not do this anymore. If I disagree with someone's snide comments, or racist jokes, or whatever, I am going to call them out on it. I am going to speak up. I am going to take a stand. I have less time on this earth left than I did yesterday and the day before and I am not going down without fighting for what is right, and true, and good.
As Hillary said in her concession speech yesterday "Never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it. It is."
Tuesday night, I watched a woman who devoted her ENTIRE life to working for the less fortunate and making the world better, go down because of hatred, ignorance, racism, dogmatically positioned thinking, and a man who has never done a thing in his life to help anyone else out except himself.
Hatred, racism, ignorance is not the country I know, or was brought up in, or that the rest of the world views us as. I will fight for what I know is right. Always.