By COURTNEY CHENNAULT<\/p>\n
The results of the presidential election were shocking and painful to many people across the country, especially because Clinton won the popular vote.<\/p>\n
Feelings of anger, fear and utter disbelief culminated last night as thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities reaching from New York to Los Angeles. According to NBC New York, at least 60 people in Manhattan were arrested during the protests.<\/p>\n
Fox News reported that protesters\u2019 signs said things like, \u201cTrump\u2019s a racist,\u201d \u201cImpeach Trump,\u201d and \u201cAbolish Electoral College.\u201d<\/p>\n
It seems that if any good can come of this situation, it is the uniting of minorities and oppressed peoples across the board. While broadcasting at a protest in New York, a Fox News reporter stated, \u201cThere\u2019s a hodgepodge of so many different groups here.\u201d Though their races, sexual orientations, ages, sexes and religions differed, the protesters\u2019 message was the same: \u201cTrump is not my president.\u201d<\/p>\n
I have noticed that people tend to protest the injustices that directly impact themselves. As a result, most of the Black Lives Matter activists are black, most of the LGBTQ supports are non-heterosexual individuals, and so forth.<\/p>\n
On one level, this phenomenon is understandable, even expected. But on another level, this phenomenon is inexcusable. As Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, \u201cInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.\u201d Minorities should support other minority causes just as readily as they support their own.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, it seems that standing up against Trump and his racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and misogynistic beliefs is today\u2019s biggest opportunity for all minorities and marginalized groups to come together and form the most expansive civil rights movement yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By COURTNEY CHENNAULT The results of the presidential election were shocking and painful to many people across the country, especially because Clinton won the popular vote. Feelings of anger, fear and utter disbelief culminated last night as thousands of protesters … Continue reading