#Brexit safety pins skin#
I don’t want anyone to see my white skin and assume that I would ever blindly or overtly support racism.
I, like many Americans, don’t want anyone to think I am apart of anything remotely racist or discriminatory. It has become glaringly obvious though, that these divisive feelings have escalated in direct proportion to his rising candidacy and now, presidency. Racism, sexism, xenophobia and Islamophobia has existed for a long time, even before Trump announced his candidacy. The xenophobic, Islamophobic, and racist rhetoric Trump used while campaigning has absolutely emboldened many of his hate-fueled supporters. Here’s your wake up call though – it’s downright terrifying for the most vulnerable groups of people like minorities, women, and anyone that is LGBTQ. No matter who you are, it’s unnerving and frankly, really scary. A video of middle school students chanting in a school lunchroom, ‘Build the wall!’ has surfaced and Muslim American women are becoming targets of violence. As CNN reports, racist graffiti that says stuff like ‘Whites Only’ and ‘White America’ has been painted on various doors and buildings around the country.
If you’ve been watching the news, you know there has been a rash of hate crimes in the immediate hours and days since Donald Trump emerged as victor and president-elect.
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