I am heart sick tonight.
Not because of the election.
Not because there’s a rumor that Drake and T. Swift are dating.
But because of a piece of news I heard just the other night.
Over the weekend, at my cousin’s university, there was a tragedy. His roommate: a kind, loving, and incredibly smart young man, passed away after being the victim of a hate crime.
For being Muslim.
He was jumped and ended up in a coma. He passed a day later.
How truly tragic.
I did not know this young man, but my cousin was his best friend and roommate. And it just pains my heart to think that someone could act out in hate towards another person like that.
There’s a lot of rhetoric going around lately about immigrants and muslims and walls and whatnot. It’s nauseatingly pervasive.
And to be quite honest, I don’t exactly know
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