I will never be quiet. Never again. As a White person writing Black characters, you absolutely must be vocally anti-racist. As an American, in this presidency, you must be loud. Democracy dies in broad daylight. Do not let it also be silence.
Our president, sat in The Oval Office, berated not just another human being, but the president of an allied nation in need; in front of the entire world. He yelled at him. He gestured at him. He made fun of his clothing like a bully. I will not be silent. Trump and Vance belittled him and the Ukrainian people on an international stage.
Our president, on his official social media account, posted an AI video of what he called Trump Gaza. Raising hotels, erasing the Palestinian people further. He imagines himself drinking by the pool with war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, while the richest man in the world eats hummus.
I love my country; I love its people. I love my Appalachian grandma and her homeplace in the hollar. I love Shenandoah and it’s autumn, painted by god himself. I love Detroit with our outfacing attitudes as cold as our December. I love the places and the people I have seen. The people we can be. I love that we are a melting pot, in time, in culture, and in architecture. I love us, I love The US, and I will not go quietly into the darkness on my biggest platform while the people at the top ruin the things that make us.













