[Magdalen] the day after....

[Ginga Wilder]

Eleanor,
My youngest son Robert wrote this on FB this morning.  His wonderful wife
Christina is Filipino:

"It's not so much that I hate the idea of Trump being president, I mourn my
morals and values and beliefs that may be tossed aside and forgotten about.
Trump supporters most likely feel the exact opposite about their morals and
values and beliefs, because their candidate won. But I worry about my
daughter, not only because she is female but also because she is a young
human being. For the next four years of her life this disgustingly
womanizing man is going to be in charge of her country. I hurt for those in
the LGBTQ community like my sister, who is a lesbian and an episcopal
minister and married. Who knows what is going to happen to those laws set
in place to protect homosexuals. I also fear for my non-white friends and
loving wife who now have a president that had White supremacist supporters
and he never seem to let that bother him. Even the KKK was marching over an
interstate within the last 20 hours in Mebane, NC celebrating this win. So,
I do welcome Trump as our president. I just won't compromise my beliefs and
morals and values."  Robert Wilder


Robert's mom,

Ginga




On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think, or at least hope, you are right, Scott. I thought before last
> night that this election was the last gasp of the angry white men. We may
> see much damage in the next few years to immigrants, women, LGBT folks, the
> disabled, and more. Perhaps the only hope is that people will really become
> mobilized and learn they really to have to stand up and vote to keep
> bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > A friend made me feel more hopeful by pointing out that the USA is
> > actually changing and that this election was a last gasp of the Angry
> > White Men. The nation will keep changing. I've mainly bristled at
> > those posting that we need to come together now in unity (and
> > apparently align with the horrible values that won, because somehow we
> > have no choice but to do so). Protest is part of democracy as well,
> > and falling in line because we have no choice...isn't.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > Be of good cheer friends. You are not alone, here in South Africa we
> are
> > > also shocked and horrified although I have already met one Christian
> > chump
> > > who is convinced of DT's Christian credentials because James Dobson
> > > said so.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>