Trump's AmeriKKKa
It's been two days since Trump won the election. This morning, I felt like boulders were sitting on my chest. I knew I had to convert this static energy, so I took a walk around my neighborhood. I live in what is still considered a 'blue state,' which honestly, I'm not sure that has much significance anymore. I'm in a weird mental space knowing I look like a white, straight, cisgender male. The way I look can create this false perception of who and what I identify with. In my apartment elevator, a woman wearing a hijab tucked herself as far into the corner from me as she could, keeping her head down until the door opened. Walking down the street today, I noticed a woman cut through traffic when we are about to walk by one another. I noticed a black man and woman stare at me with anger/hurt in their eyes when they walked past me at the streetlight. Now I know these things might have nothing to do with me. There could be a million other reasons why someone does what ...
