enough to stop. His Islamaphobic views weren’t enough to stop him. His rhetoric that goes against other people’s human rights wasn’t enough to stop them from voting for him. And for them, there was a choice. I look at this election and for me there really wasn’t a choice.
“You can’t just take one small detail of one small puzzle piece of a greater picture and fixate on that and say, “Everything’s wrong because of this,” because that’s just simply not the case.” Whoever you are, whatever the reasons that you are afraid, you’re not alone. There are people who are in positions of privilege and power who support you. And there are people who are just like you, whoever you are, that are just as scared and who have concerns, just like you. And it’s important to know that you’re not alone and you never have to be alone. You are a person with a voice and that matters. I’m a big fan of storytelling and all those kinds of things. I think it’s really important for people to share their stories and their concerns and definitely rise up against fear and hatred because I don’t believe in fighting fire with fire. I believe in rising above. So I think it’s really important to feel in these types of times of adversity that they have to rise to something great. Everything happens for a reason and there’s a purpose. There’s a greater purpose for America. There’s a greater purpose for each one of us individually, and for Republicans and Democrats. In the end, we’re all just people and we all just want to feel wanted. We all want to feel like we have a place where we belong. And once we have that, we will fight so hard to protect it. Often that means we end up in competition with other people, but in the end we all want the same thing, and that’s to feel validated.