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An Open Letter to Hateful White Americans
Dear Hateful White Americans,
For a long time, I misunderstood my feelings toward you.
You would pop up on my social media feed, drive past me in traffic, say something over Thanksgiving dinner, or I'd overhear you at a restaurant, and what seemed like rage would rise quickly within me. I thought it was abject hatred.
Recently, I realized that I don't hate you—I feel sorry for you.
I grieve over whatever in your story made you this way; for the painful path you must have walked to arrive here so fully wounded, that you now feel so compelled to wound others.
My heart breaks for a journey so…
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