A Letter to My Troubled Friends

Dear Friend,

I greet you with the utmost love and respect. As I entered VP Harris rally in Atlanta yesterday, I passed by a group of protestors chanting “how many children have you killed today?” This moment marked me. Because my sister has been a part of many DC Palestine Protests. She’s even taken her husband and our 2 year old daughter. Lest you think I support the execution of a people, I deemed it necessary to attempt and justify my position.

You know I’ll soon be 32 and it is the logical sequence of life that my eggs will need cracking soon. (As soon as I can sort through the male specie) When that time comes, It is Incredibly important to me is to birth a daughter in an America that has known a woman President. A black woman at that. You may not understand or value the magnitde of this. But you musn’t understand to respect.

In this contentious election season, I pray we avoid gross generalization. No I do not support a genocide. I am a genocide survivor appalled at the crimes committed against the Palestinian people. I am also aware of US’s geopolitical positioning: like the fact that Israel is US’s ally. That will remain true despite the candidate.

I could vote green, independent or libertarian. And I often have.. this season I wish not too. You musn’t understand my vote to respect vote.

If in nothing else, trust in the fact that I have dedicated my personal and professional life to the preservation of human rights.

I did not start now, in 2024 when I along wt a group of non partisan signed up to observe elections. i did not start in 2020 when I graduated law school and worked wt the WB towards the eradication of extreme poverty. I did not start in 2016 when I founded a non profit that visited imprisonmed black youth. it is innate. i love all humans. Always have always will. I am because you are.
“Ubuntu”

In sum, they have tied our hands, and you have misdirected your anger at us. So I must pose this question to you : are you being fair to you fellow human?

I wish peace in your home and I wish peace on Earth.