On November 10, 2016 our class was centered on creating an open space for us as students and staff to release our thoughts and feelings after the election. We began class initially by each of us finishing the statement of "After the election I feel..." Feelings were presented as well as beliefs and thoughts on what had just happened to our nation. Ideas were bounced off one another and tears were shed. The activity that proceeded was writing a letter to anyone other than ourselves. We were told to write a letter to talk about the election and to really just tell the person we were writing to how we felt and/or what was on our minds. That letter was then taken and molded into a poem that summarized all the most important parts of the letter. We were asked to title it, then read it to the class. The reading that followed was one of the most emotional moments, it seems, we had ever had in this class. This activity was meant to help in the healing process. I would like to end this blog post by saying that we will be okay. We are okay. We will continue to fight for what we believe in. We will not be silenced. Remember to spread love & positivity now more than ever. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that; hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." If you can take anything from this post, please let it be that we can have civil conversations with each other no matter our political views, we can spread love, we can make our community better, we can unite. P.S. This is also a friendly reminder that a lot of us have been raised in the bay area, one of the most liberal areas in the United States. We have been sheltered from a lot of the other parts of this country and we need to understand each other before we can generalize a group of people.
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