I don’t know who you are, but my heart is broken for you.
Ilhan Omar, attacked today, we will never meet but I love you. The Latina girl running home to her dad, chased by three cowards in a mask. I love you. I love you, Alex Pretti . You are the ultime heros that they will never be. I love you all and I admire your resolve. I admire the holy fight in all of you.
I love you, to the boy whose ear (as reported by the ACLU) was punched in violently by the finger of an ICE agent in a detention center. I love you and I wish I could give you everything I have. I wish I could hold you and cry with you and give you whatever you would ask of me.
My heart is so full of pain, but I look to Minnesota and I am stunned and inspired by all of you and I believe in all of you.
May ICE - those thugs, the very scum of earth – be purged from the face of the earth.
I saw a quote online the other day, that fascism is the colonizer turned in on itself.
May we overcome ourselves and take back Minnesota and the country from this great evil. As for me, you inspire my generally inactive soul, to action. Know the eyes of the world are on you and that unseen hearts all over the world are facing you, each and every day.
Joseph
-Joseph (from Indiana/USA but now live abroad, lived in St. Paul 2004-2008)