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I just wrote and sent this email to the electors, with the subject "I'm scared too. >.<".
Link summary:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/transgender-woman-chased-attacked-with-hatchet-at-charlotte-park/467181395
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/06/16/rainbow-flag-burned-outside-adams-morgan-restaurant/
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2016/11/10/gay-pride-rainbow-flags-burned/93583280/
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/11/16/hiker-targeted-with-car-vandalism-racist-note-over-head-scarf/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/14/leaked-video-shows-santa-clara-students-drawing-swastika-with-blood/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/swastikas-hateful-language-discovered-at-sjsu-residence-halls/
https://twitter.com/trashhalo/status/742386487937892353/photo/1
http://abc7news.com/news/church-womans-car-vandalized-with-swastikas-in-south-bay/1610855/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/us/mississippi-black-church-vandalized-vote-trump/
I hope this letter finds you well, and that your days have been happier and less stressful than mine.
My name is Zeta Syanthis, and I am writing to you in the hope that you will read my story. I'm writing because I'm scared, and because my friends are being hurt. And because I know it's probably only a matter of time before I, myself, am.
Ever since President-Elect Donald Trump won the electoral college on November 8th, hate crimes against minorities have spiked to an unbelievable degree. I myself am a transgender citizen living in California, though I've only been here for two short years. (I moved here hoping against hope that I would be safe. >.<) Originally from Illinois, I went to school in Terre Haute, Indiana (downstate) and then lived in Arizona for almost 5 years, working as a cleared defense contractor during that time. I have no illusions about the threats we face, or about the need for a strong hand in government, but for the first time in my life I no longer feel safe in my own home. I no longer know if those I wish to serve want me here, or if those that do outnumber those who wish me dead. I hope you are one of the former. >.<
I do not know if you have ever felt as I do, whether here or abroad, but I can tell you it is a deep and terrible feeling, one that scarcely lets me get up each day. It as though a spike has been driven through my heart and chained to some dark place, and I do not know how to remove it. >.<
Already, we have lost folks, to that same depression which I battle daily. We have lost 9 that I know of to suicide, kind and gentle folks who lost hope upon seeing their hoped-for futures snatched away. Others are being killed, or chased down with hatchets, while all the while the KKK celebrates day after day. In our neighborhoods, pride flags are being burned while still attached to houses, black churches are being torched, and women's cars vandalized for even looking as though they might be Muslim. And that's to say nothing of the hateful words and symbols painted and etched into our lives.
I know you alone cannot stop this. And I do not put that responsibility at your feet. How could I? But I am asking, as one human to another, "*Please* do not do this to us." We have shed far too many tears already, and my heart cannot bear many more. >.<
My name is Zeta Syanthis, and I am writing to you in the hope that you will read my story. I'm writing because I'm scared, and because my friends are being hurt. And because I know it's probably only a matter of time before I, myself, am.
Ever since President-Elect Donald Trump won the electoral college on November 8th, hate crimes against minorities have spiked to an unbelievable degree. I myself am a transgender citizen living in California, though I've only been here for two short years. (I moved here hoping against hope that I would be safe. >.<) Originally from Illinois, I went to school in Terre Haute, Indiana (downstate) and then lived in Arizona for almost 5 years, working as a cleared defense contractor during that time. I have no illusions about the threats we face, or about the need for a strong hand in government, but for the first time in my life I no longer feel safe in my own home. I no longer know if those I wish to serve want me here, or if those that do outnumber those who wish me dead. I hope you are one of the former. >.<
I do not know if you have ever felt as I do, whether here or abroad, but I can tell you it is a deep and terrible feeling, one that scarcely lets me get up each day. It as though a spike has been driven through my heart and chained to some dark place, and I do not know how to remove it. >.<
Already, we have lost folks, to that same depression which I battle daily. We have lost 9 that I know of to suicide, kind and gentle folks who lost hope upon seeing their hoped-for futures snatched away. Others are being killed, or chased down with hatchets, while all the while the KKK celebrates day after day. In our neighborhoods, pride flags are being burned while still attached to houses, black churches are being torched, and women's cars vandalized for even looking as though they might be Muslim. And that's to say nothing of the hateful words and symbols painted and etched into our lives.
I know you alone cannot stop this. And I do not put that responsibility at your feet. How could I? But I am asking, as one human to another, "*Please* do not do this to us." We have shed far too many tears already, and my heart cannot bear many more. >.<
Link summary:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/transgender-woman-chased-attacked-with-hatchet-at-charlotte-park/467181395
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/06/16/rainbow-flag-burned-outside-adams-morgan-restaurant/
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2016/11/10/gay-pride-rainbow-flags-burned/93583280/
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/11/16/hiker-targeted-with-car-vandalism-racist-note-over-head-scarf/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/14/leaked-video-shows-santa-clara-students-drawing-swastika-with-blood/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/swastikas-hateful-language-discovered-at-sjsu-residence-halls/
https://twitter.com/trashhalo/status/742386487937892353/photo/1
http://abc7news.com/news/church-womans-car-vandalized-with-swastikas-in-south-bay/1610855/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/us/mississippi-black-church-vandalized-vote-trump/
