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[exsequar]

Every time I dare to feel some optimism about the direction our miserable country is taking, I read something like this. I will not warn you of the graphic details of violence written in that post; instead, I think that you should read them, keep your eyes wide open and drink in every detail of the death of Aaron Hall, which took 6 hours to be perpetrated and 10 days to be noticed. Read those details and feel the horror in your gut, the nausea and disgust and shock. Embrace them, because that is your fuel, your fuel to fight against the injustices perpetrated every day in the name of ignorance, hatred, arrogance, prejudice. And I know you will all feel these emotions gnawing at your heart, at your gut, because you are all good people and I am proud to know you. But sometimes I forget that not everyone is as wonderful, as warm and loving and open as you. People are cruel and angry and just plain fucking stupid. And we need to fight them back, assert every person's right to live their life as they choose.

I don't mean to preach to the choir... but god, that post got me where I live.

Comments

[inlipstickred.livejournal.com]

i have tears just streaming down my face. i will never understand how things like this can happen. never. it hurts me. jesus.

[elohvee.livejournal.com]

It saddens me how much I will never be able to understand some people. Though I'm not sure these two qualify.

[musical-emjay.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jesus fucking Christ :/

That's...that's so disgusting. I don't even know what to say.

[darlas-mom.livejournal.com]

My heart actually hurts. Oh, God, I wanna cry.

How can things like that happen? How can anyone do that? How can people that'd do such a thing even exist?

Rhetorical questions, all. I know you don't know. No one with a shred of decency can truly comprehend such a hideous act.

Oh, honey. ::snuggles:: This is all so, so horrible.