It’s usual Trump trash, filled with his trademark birtherism, racism, and white nationalism. Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I am from New York City. Like Rashida Tlaib, I was born in this country to Palestinian immigrant parents who came here seeking a better life. People like us, people who were born in the United States who have been told to go back to where we came from, know a specific kind of pain and rejection. My home has always been the United States. My pride in my Brooklyn upbringing is a signature part of my identity. I love my country, even when its people haven't always loved me back.
Trump’s naked racism was front and center well before he ran for president. The truth is that Trump’s America doesn’t include all of us. He wants a whiter America, one with fewer Black and Brown immigrants. He is clear in his goals of translating his white nationalist prejudice into public policy, and we need to be just as clear. This country was built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the backs of immigrants. We will not be erased from the country we built or dispossessed from the land that belonged to our indigenous, Mexican, and Chicano family that was theirs before the border crossed them.
We are fighting for our country. We cannot let Trump be reelected; our lives depend on it.
I know for sure that we are not outnumbered. The question is whether we will be out organized again.
Are you with me?
In community,
Linda
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