Told a trump supporter My neighbor
This is fuckery bounty on our men and women. As a vet they are my people I identify with them. They’re part of our military they give themselves and are part of something bigger than their individual selves duty honor country. Love for each of your rifle company plt brothers. And for once I’d wish trumpig would collude with America. And I told him you belong to the traitors that still support him. He still borrowed weed trimmer line and walked away.
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She is a white Republican lover of Gone With the Wind. We became friends anyway (I'm black). For 35 years I have forgiven her blindness since she has done selfless things for me, most especially recently, a few years ago when I was in ICU and rehab for a serious illness - her sincerity was unquestionable. She has proven her friendship over and over again. Besides, not only did she NOT vote for the cretin currently in the WH, but she and her family voted for Obama, twice, on her own!
But now... we have a problem. Her verbal response - and her family's verbal response - to the murder of George Floyd and the protests shocked me to the core. To be fair, she may be having a terrible reaction to her son having a mid-life crisis; he fell in love with a very young black girl with obvious character failings - she is clearly using him, and gotten him involved with drugs and a dispute with her ex-boyfriend - and it has caused a rift between she and her son - and between her son and her daughter. So I am hesitant to flail accusations at her, she's already in a deeply emotional family crisis. We have not spoken since, except for a quick text from her ("are you ok?" - "Yes, hope you are too - thanks for checking in." ). So I am in the process of creating a loooooooog email with links to all of the things she obviously does NOT know about racism and the treatment of African Americans in our history - and our current tragedies - but just reading about allll of the lynchings and murders and massacres and beatings and brutality and Jim Crow laws and lies and deceit and... it's making me so angry that I don't even want to bother. But she doesn't know it yet. 
Yes, I am torn. And my emails usually are very diplomatic. But as I kept adding links... the tone got worse. During all of our years of friendship, race has never been an issue - I don't remember us ever discussing it - we agreed long ago to stay away from politics completely, I get too passionate 
, so we stay away (until she voted for Obama). Only within the last year did we talk about the young woman her son is obsessed with, their relationship is barely a year old. So we've never even had a conversation about racism. Typing that, it seems pretty strange.
I don't know what to do, thinking it's best to just wait. She's probably realizing the same thing. But it's going to have to come up. This was too deep a movement, too monumental, too intense to be ignored.
But I do appreciate your concern! 
... which would surprise me. She doesn't necessarily need a friend - she's extremely close to her daughter (married with 3 boys, lives across the street, and her husband is as GREAT as hers - two very good men). When we have a President Biden in the oval, I will feel better! - and probably ready to talk! But I do hate saying this, it will sound overbearing... but she does need some serious ed about our nation's dark history of racism. The one positive thing she said during our convo: "I watched a series about slavery [a few years back] and Gone With the Wind glorifies slavery." Baby steps. 
