Sending Love to Charlottesville

Sitting in my office this week has been rough (to say the least)...My office resides on 56th Street in Manhattan.The same street as Trump Tower (even writing his name makes me grow increasingly nauseous/angry). Anger doesn't even begin to describe the feelings that have been coursing through me in the aftermath of the Charlottesville horror.

I have hundreds of thoughts racing through my mind...one having to do with the fact that I was raised Jewish and seeing swastikas splayed all over the news/spray painted on sides of buildings. And hearing the rhetoric coming from Neo-Nazis that actually reside in this country. It's inconceivable, yet SO REAL.

Other thoughts arise about how my heart keeps breaking by the hatred that is revealing itself in this country…by the fact that it takes such tragic events/deaths for people to realize "the land of the free" is a society that represses minorities in a way that white people (that I) will never fully understand. I am (WE ARE) part of a failed system that has a strong racist current running through its veins. A system that continues to fail people and oppress the lives of all those who were not born with white skin.
So what do you do?
At the very least… you can take care of each other in the movement against hatred. There is strength in numbers and value in compassion/support. Stay in tune with yourself, check-in with everyone in your life and send them love. Protest. Call your representatives. Stay informed. And send more love.

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."