My Fellow Americans....

[kimb]

I appreciate the idea behind this thread, trying to unify all Americans during this time of great civil unrest. But while you fight for unity, you unintentionally use classification and division, which is what got America to civil unrest in the first place. Somewhere along the line within the last few years, the system instilled this "Us vs Them" mentality into society where every classification of people are victims of different problems faced by some known or unknown obstacle, that no one else can or will understand them, and that if other classifications of people do not support you, they are against you.

You see this in racial demographics like Hispanics, Blacks in the form of BLM, and Whites; you see this with the genders in the form of 3rd wave feminism who fight against men in the patriarchy, and in the form of MRA's who respond to feminism with true misogyny; you see this with the LGBTQ community, and the list goes on and on. So now, when you tell everyone they're loved in this sort of reaffirming manner, you're inferring that they were once hated (or not loved), and confirms their victimhood. And of course, Donald Trump is this pinnacle of hatred as painted by the left. I doubt this was your intention though.

We should be unified at a point where you can address all classes and creeds of people as just "Americans", because that's what they are, they're all Americans. Our races, genders, classes, and sexuality divide us, but being American is what truly unifies us.


I might turn this into a thread post so more people can see tbh.

 

[sasukesworld]

Amen. People are human, we dont need to let anyone make us hate each other. No matter if its black, asian, jew, muslim, ...
Dont change, my friend. You are the kind of human being i like the most.

Dont mind Sasukesworld, she lives in a small german city where she hasnt had any experience. She likes to talk big

Lyke pls. You're like John Snow, you know nothing.

 

[ArabianLuffy]

Those who know me know I rarely create threads but I felt in my heart it was necessary for me to voice my concern for my my beloved country and the beloved people in it in light of all the tension, uncertainty, and civil unrest we are experiencing it breaks my heart to see so many of us take to social media outlets and ripping each other apart.

Spoiler

This is something I posted on Facebook today when I saw close friends of varying political view ending their friendships over something like this:

"Lots of name calling and very demeaning posts on such a heated topic on both sides. I get we are all passionate about our views on America and the current state of affairs. But let cooler heads prevail. Keep the feedback civil or no one's voice gets heard and no real progression is made. Born here or not, we are all Americans. Regardless of what views we take, please try to keep perspective. We all live here, we all love this country, and we all need to get over our own personal biases and open our eyes to the fact that we are all in this together."

Let me leave you all with this:

To My Black Americans. YOUR lives matter you are loved.

To My Mexican Americans. You Belong Here. You are loved.

To My Muslim/Middle Eastern Americans. You Will have a place here. You are loved.

To My LGBTQ Americans. You are perfect the way you are. You are loved.

To My Conservative/White Americans. You are not alone. You are loved.

To everyone living here in America born or not. We are in this together. You are loved.

The only way we are going to get through this is together or not at all.

Amen. God bless us all.