Today, my wife, who is half black, our daughter, and I went on a hike. We are in an area in a cabin surrounded by Trump and “Blue Lives Matter” flags. Most of you think I’m a “tough motherfucker”, but we are out here and I’m afraid of my wife being called the “N word”, or worse. If we are seen as a same sex couple, Asian and Black, with a child, I fear we could be attacked because of how emboldened people are feeling by this current administration. We’ve woken up to the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, Jacob Blake being shot 7 times in front of his kids. We’ve woken up to centuries of racism and murder, and we fear what we will wake up to tomorrow.

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