The United States of America having shaken Europe as well with an unexpected outcome, should waken up all those who have been dormant or did not speak up yet, to protect those around them who are in the minority, or who are poor, or who are sick or who have an other colour of skin, or who think differently ….
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To remember
It could well be that we can see in states that one comes for those who are not in line, like
First they came for the Socialists,
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and for the Jews, and then for others until it was the turn to come for you
Martin Friedrich Gustav Emil Niemöller
and than it will be too late to remember the words of the German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, founder of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) and a president of the World Council of Churches.
After it became known Donald Trump was to be the president-elect, voices of fear where heard not only in Europe, but outside the U.S.A. anxious voices reached the world from inside a nation which so much and so loudly cried out to be the Land of the free.
Not only coloured people expressed their fear. People who were born in a body they did not felt the right body and had gone on the trajectory difficult path to change their looks now felt pushed in a bizarre corner.
Some felt
“it will become open season on people like me.”
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Indiana, a state which is anything but safe for people who are different > birthplace of the KKK.
In Europe we have seen the vitriol and hate spreading of Donald Trump and how he created division. as such we cna udnerstand people over there now are afraid of violence under a Trump presidency.
seen the rallies + heard the hate-speech.
Mike Pence as governor passed laws making it legal for businesses to discriminate against members of the LBGT- community + passed laws discriminating against woman’s right to choose.
We worked tirelessly to get a Pathway to Citizenship referendum passed, but our representatives would hide in their offices and refuse to meet with us.
Donald Trump not limited his hate-speech to members of just one community >made hateful comments + threats to members of Hispanic community, Blacks, Jews, women, Muslims + differently-abled.
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- bigots of all varieties feel emboldened by his ignorance + subsequent rise to power.
- school-yard bullies + cowards of all stripes feel that hate = acceptable + rewarded.
It is our job to speak out when and where we see discrimination.
> compassion + activism.
> help cause of equality => make world better place
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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
-Martin Niemoller
A friend of mine stopped by my house recently.
She was scared.
My friend was born male, but now identifies as female.
She said…
“I’ve only recently began to be able to walk down the street. I fear that if Donald Trump becomes president, then it will become open season on people like me.”
Our house is a safe haven in the middle of Indiana, a state which is anything but safe for people who are different.
There…
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