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Fifth
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Laure
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Jaure
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Pens
Open
Letter
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Donal
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Trump
Voters
: 'I
Am a
Bisexu
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Cuban
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Ameri
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Woma
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Am So
Proud
of It'
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11/18/2016 by Lauren Jauregui

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To every single Trump supporter trying to

say that voting for Trump does not mean
that you are racist, homophobic, sexist,
xenophobic, assholes… that you just like
the way he didn't really care what people
thought and just said whatever he
wanted… that he wasn't a politician, so he
wasn't part of the establishment and didn't
have corrupt money backing him…

This is for you:

Your words are worthless, because your

actions have led to the single-handed
destruction of all the progress we've made
socially as a nation. You have, with your
pure ignorance and refusal to understand
the way the government and the world
works, allowed a power-hungry business
tycoon to take over the United States of
America. "The land of the free, the home
of the brave, under God, indivisible, with
Liberty and Justice for ALL."

You are HYPOCRITES.

Restoring the America-that-was is only

stagnating the progression of our
consciousness. You voted for a person
who built an 18-month campaign off the
back of your hatred. He manipulated ALL
of you with such ease by speaking to the
darker parts of you that had started to feel
ashamed about the way you viewed the
"politically correct" world. He became your
champion, because he spoke to the parts
of you that think you are superior to the
rest of us (just like Hitler did in Germany
before the Holocaust! Just read his
autobiography: Mein Kampf).

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Vic Mensa Pleads for Change

After Trump's Win: 'We Need to
Unify'
This politically correct world we've
created, which is really just a world with
social etiquette, where we have weeded
out the language of racism and explained
why, where we have established feminism
as a growing notion of making women
realize their validity and right to be treated
as the full complex beings they are and
men the same (which clearly needs A
LOT of work considering how women
across America, especially white women,
voted for this man who insulted your very
existence every time he opened his mouth
or disrespected Hillary during his
campaign), where we have had to create
numerous labels to help queer people
who didn't fit the cis heterosexual mold
feel valid and identified in a world where
narrow-minded consciousness has made
them feel invalid and invisible for so long.
That's the "politically correct" behavior you
wanna get rid of? You wanna restore
America to a world where the human
beings around you feel scared to be
themselves and live and love freely?

Apart from how selfish that is, it is so very

un-CHRIST-like, because your God is
watching and He knows your hearts and
He is aware of the true reason you chose
such a human to run the most powerful
country in the world, and I promise you
the God that I have come to know and
love is intolerant of judgment and hatred.
And I know this, because I was raised
Roman Catholic in a Latin household and
went to private Catholic school my whole
life so I have studied WAY more than
most of you have studied the religion or
the Bible for that matter. The ONLY
reason is your inability to accept the
growing world around you. You chose
hatred. Your heart chose to separate
yourself as a superior when the only
superior in existence in this entire
universe is SO much greater than you.

Our "political correctness" that your

champion, Donald Trump, so pointedly
disregarded throughout his entire
campaign and now with the appointment
of his advisors and other government
officials, is the language we have worked
tirelessly to establish to feel safe in a
world that never stops reminding us we
are minorities. I am a bisexual Cuban-
American woman and I am so proud of it.
I am proud to be part of a community that
only projects love and education and the
support of one another. I am proud to be
the granddaughter and daughter of
immigrants who were brave enough to
leave their homes and come to a whole
new world with a different language and
culture and immerse themselves
fearlessly to start a better life for
themselves and their families.

I am proud to be a woman. Proud that the

sex between my thighs provides a
strength and resilience in me that only
other women can feel, that my body
curves in ways that allow me to create life
within me, that my entire life is filled with
adversity and doubt and people
questioning my intelligence and my artistic
potential and my expression of myself and
my virtue and honor because I am too
much woman. I am proud that I get to
prove them all wrong. I am proud that I
have to work even harder for it. I was
raised to feel that I can do ANYTHING,
and I will always believe that. I am proud
to feel the whole spectrum of my feelings
and I will gladly take the label of "bitch"
and "problematic" for speaking my mind
the same way any man would be admired
and respected for doing. But, I will also
extend the fullest hand of compassion and
empathy for anyone labeling me as such.

I also know that in my struggle of being a

woman I am so very privileged. I was born
with a lighter complexion and green eyes
(thanks genetics) so from that narrow-
minded perspective, I'm white. I have
experienced the privilege those genes
have granted me, and I am grateful and
will continue to speak on behalf of the
women around the world and in our very
own country who do not experience a
fraction of that respect because of the
color of their skin or what they choose to
wear, or how their hair looks, or how
much makeup they have on or any other
absurdity that we women are reduced to.

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Moby's Letter To America:

'What the F--k is Wrong With
You?' (Exclusive)
It's truly disheartening to me to see so
many beautiful women who have no idea
what their potential is. This election made
it blatantly obvious just how many women
can't see it. We have failed ourselves as a
nation. We are the example for the world,
and we have failed our fellow humans
who were watching us with hope that we
would not allow hatred to prevail. I have
had the privilege of being in a band that
has allowed me to travel all over the
world. I cannot express the gratitude I
have for this experience because it
opened my eyes to so many things and
has allowed me to view the world from
such a simple perspective, a perspective
that I understand not very many people
have the opportunity to experience.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two

things, it would be to travel and read a
history book. Look beyond yourselves,
look at how petty the morals you uphold
seem when you realize we are not the
only ones. Realize that your white skin is
the result of immigration from Europe, that
the only true "Americans" are Native
Americans, who are indigenous people
that inhabited this land before these
conquerors from other countries (England,
France, Italy, Spain) wiped them out
almost entirely. None of us belong here
but all of us deserve the right to feel safe
and live our lives in peace. To not have to
worry about potentially dying, or being
electro-shocked, or beaten, or raped, or
emotionally abused because our
existence and/or choices for ourselves
upset someone else. This is the world
Trump is fostering. This is the division that
has risen since the beginning of the
campaign. We are not America indivisible
any longer, we are united on two separate
sides; Love and Hatred. We are not
"whining" about our presidential choice
losing, we are screaming battle cries
 against those whose political and
personal agendas threaten our lives and
sanity. We are making sure you hear us,
no matter how much it bothers you, we
EXIST.

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