All identity politics is, is white people's cries at being called out on their racism. That's why we've been hearing about it more the the past four years than we ever have. Trump has gotten off on scaring his base and making them hate people who are telling them that they need to reevaluate their thinking. He is enabling them to continue benefitting from a system that is notorious for oppressing people of color especially black men and woman.

There is no distinguishing. At this point, anyone who made the choice to vote for Trump and ignore his racism, calls for violence and all that...don't get a pass. Condoning it or giving people a pass on it is just as wrong as if we had made the choice to vote for Trump. Being silent in the face of oppression is wrong and I won't be silent. I am going to call it out any time I see it. This year has left me seeing even more of the racism and hate and this election shows that the vast majority of white Americans don't care about Trumps racism. If we don't call it out we will continue to see a rise in the acceptance of the racism and hate and that's not acceptable. Trump should have never happened but the majority of white men and woman knew they'd benefit from Trumps presidency and so they looked past everything which is passive racism. I'm done coddling the right and trying to rationalize them and make them understand why Trump is bad. They've seen everything and chose to continue to vote for him and I'm gonna call out the racism.

To be silent would be just as bad as it was for the Germans to say and do nothing when Hitler was coming to power.

I'm hearing Trump supporters who are upset with the way he's handling this election and I can't even wrap my head around it. They were okay looking past his blatant racism, his inciting of violence, his bullying and abusive behavior, his birther conspiracy but this is what is turning them off? To me, that says a lot about what these voters value and it isn't treating other humans with dignity and respect.

At the end of the day, this election was not political, it was an election about values, morality and ethics and unsurpringly, more white men and woman chose to vote for Trump then in the last election. That's hard to get past. That's hard to wrap my head around. I've lost great respect for a dear friend (more like family) who has been a vocal defendent of Trump. My opinion of him changed but I'm still trying to wrap my head around it and determine how I proceed with the friendship. Some people say to cut him off because he won't learn and they might be right. I'm choosing to remain friends with him and try to educate him and hope that he can see how voting for Trump was a passively racist thing to do and in many ways its just as bad as being blatantly racist.

I'm not sure how we move forward from this seeing how racist and bigoted the country is but all I know is we can no longer be silent about it and we must call it out. That's what I will continue to do and hope that people change.

I'd also like to add that no where in my interactions was I rude to you. I know a lot of people get upset when I explain that voting for Trump was passively racist but we've gotta call a spade a spade. We cannot move forward until the people who allowed Trump understand how it was harmful and wrong.