30 Jan you think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you; but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.
I grew up in an Episcopalian kindergarten & elementary school. We planted trees. We went on nature walks. We learned about Diwali celebrations & Hanukkah celebrations. We had chapel every day where we sang about the creatures of the earth and the saints of God and all the different people who inhabit the earth. We were taught empathy. We were taught love. We were taught kindness & acceptance & understanding. And people are still shocked to learn that I do not vote red, that I do not support MAGA, that I do not support ICE, that I think immigrants make our country better, that I think everyone deserves to be treated with human decency, that I want our children to be safe at school, that I want people to be able to afford healthcare…
They taught us decency and raised us to care for everyone, and now they are surprised that we still feel that way 💔
If you think just because you are not brown or black, just because you were born here, that the leopards will not eat *your* face, I just want you to realize that Alex Pretti could have been any one of us. A VA nurse who took care of people, who exercised his second amendment right, who never even reached for his gun, shot 11 times for holding a phone and helping a woman up.
Please wake up. Please. We are called to love one another as Christ loved us. Politics is “where is the transportation budget going,” or “do we need a light rail for our city?” or “how are we distributing funding for the schools this year?,” not “do brown people deserve to be put in concentration camps?” and “are war crimes bad?” and “should a convicted felon be president?”
It’s not too late. It’s not too late, to stand up and say “I can’t support this anymore; this isn’t right.” ❤️🩹