Hate Rising, The Election and The Day After

I just saw an excellent documentary produced by journalist Jorge Ramos titled Hate Rising. In this documentary Ramos demonstrates how hate groups have become emboldened by the narrative used by Donald Trump, and how hate speech, organizing and actions have become more visible and prevalent over the last year. The interviews Ramos and his colleagues conduct with white supremacist leaders who openly argue for the superiority of the white race and for social structures that give whites superior rights and privileges are painfully revealing of the imperfections of American society and of the work in progress which are the efforts to make American democracy live up to the ideals of fundamental equality for all on which it was established.

This public and visible hate and racism will be the legacy of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, likely to last beyond November 8th. The authorization of such public hatred sets the nation back in the progress made towards greater racial equity since the Civil Rights Movement. To those of us who believe that American society should be one that lives up to the idea that all people are fundamentally equal and to the ideal that all deserve equal opportunities there are three ways to respond to this hate rising....

Read more at Huffington Post.