By SheelaR
The great thing about life is…we don’t all have to be in agreement to love and respect each other. However, if you support… rapists, racists, bigots, xenophobes, misogynists, and baskets of deplorables…I’ma have to rethink my friendship/relationship with you. I am woman and a woman of mixed ethnic heritage. My life has been touched by all the above. I don’t want to bare the thought that someone I care about would have so little respect for my life, by supporting the oppressive and destructive nature of misogyny, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, rape, and racism.
I’ve said all that to simply say, I will not be supporting Nate Parker and his movie Birth of A Nation, and I will never support the likes of Donald Trump. This isn’t as simple as a disagreement of political ideology or someone’s taste in movies. It is much bigger than that. In this country, women and the issues that affect our lives are marginalized. In this country, women of color are particularly marginalized. Think about the women in your life and replace your complacency with empathy. At some point in their lives, they too have been or will be touched by one, some, or all of that ugliness. Pray that they won’t, but if they do, pray that they can survive it. Sometimes we don’t.
We are living in perilous times. There is no room for the willful division of humanity, especially when it comes to women. If you disrespect any woman, you disrespect every woman.
Thoughts of a Wordinary Girl 