For the first time in my life I have come face to face with the country I love so very divided. Nothing has divided our country more than the last election. Our candidates were both sub-par in my opinion, but during the campaigns I was drawn to Trump. My husband is former military. I liked the promises he made to us and I didn't like Hillary in the least for the Benghazi tragedy. So I pulled for Trump. I was hoping his hot-headedness would cool and he would become business like and do what he needed to do to pull our country through. I literally could not comprehend WHY people were so devastated that he won. I will be the first one to admit I ridiculed Hillary supporters to others for needing a day off, for crying, for being in any type of mourning. I decided to be willing to listen to the "other side" and ask questions. I wanted to know why they hated President Trump so much. Many feared deportation and separation of families among their friends. Some feared the increase of racial profiling and hate towards their race. Women feared they were taking a step back in their rights with him being head of our country. All of this opposite from what I had been hearing in my own circles. I was never 100% sold on him, but many-MANY- people I love were-and still are. So hearing two completely opposing sides made me decided to sit back and objectively watch for myself how the next year went; and I have been shocked.
Let me put it out there I am I not 100% anti-anyone. I know that President Trump is human, and one just like the rest of us with the tendency to run off at the mouth. He has accomplished positive things for our country despite what the media has to say. Our economy has grown steadily since his election and we have had a decrease in the war on police (may not mean much to you but it does to me). He has put a fighting spirit back in our military and continued to support Israel. But he isn't the savior he is believed to be. He is also working to reduce benefits wounded veterans can get when they need to live off of VA disability and social security disability. This is just the tip of the ice burg that is going on under the cloak of "Making America Great Again".
The hardest part for me to grasp, primarily because I am white, is how despite everything positive he can do his remarks are dividing our country. He threatens our nations security by getting into pi**ing contests with North Korea. His diplomacy lacks pretty much everything (my button is bigger and huger than your button!), and he continuously insults people of other nationalities. I follow him on twitter, and I see what he rambles on about quite often, and it is usually incoherent and unprofessional statements. So when it came out that he called certain countries "Sh**holes* and degraded other places, I honestly have a hard time NOT believing it. That comment alone literally broke my heart. While those countries may be in poverty, there are amazing people that have come from there to better their lives and our country is greater for it. I feel like it is something Uncle Billy Bob would have said while grilling wearing his U.S. flag pants and his beer gut hanging out. I think it was more impactful because I was in Boston and surrounded by Haitians and other nationalities as they played it over the monitor.
Can you imagine uprooting yourself and your family LEGALY and moving to a different country to start a new life, barely speaking the language, and being told by the leader of that country you basically come from crap. How hurtful and insulting that would be. To give up literally everything and be let down like that.
What bothers me the most is that Christians are still defending him! We who are called to stand above the world's standards and call out wrongs when we see them. We who are supposed to love with the love of Christ, even if they are different than us! We need to see the injustices and call them out, and not hide behind the ignorance that "it doesn't happen to me so it isn't true". God called us to a greater calling, and that is to love and serve our fellow man. To clothe, feed, love, and help those less fortunate and different than us. He calls us to open our hearts to them as He did. So closing off ourselves to our own ideals because it is what everyone else in our specific culture believes is wrong and against the heart of God.
So with a heavy heart I needed to say this:
I am sorry to my friends, fellow country men, people of color and different nationalities on behalf of my president. His coarse remarks are uncalled for and hate-filled in regards to people different than me. So on behalf of him I am sorry.
