People around me know that I was never confident that Hillary Clinton was going to win against Donald Trump. In the days leading up to the 2016 election, I took comfort in all the polls that said he wasn’t going to win. In retrospect, I’m grateful for those polls because they helped me sleep more peacefully for a few weeks. I would use those polls to reassure myself that I was wrong in my conviction that the ugliness of ethnocentrism and racism that hide deep inside every human, was going to erupt within enough individuals at the last moment in the privacy of a voting booth. And I believe it did. Continue reading “The Ugliness inside: Ethnocentrism and Racism”
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