Im An American. He Does Not Speak For Me

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https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/11/30/im-american-not-speak/

I’m An American. He Does Not Speak For Me
November 30, 2017 / John Pavlovitz

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The name American is now a off-color, global joke—and he is its horrible punchline.

Because of this, I need to speak simply right now.
I need to remove any ambiguity.
I need to tell the watching world the clear, unadorned truth: he does not speak for me.

His incoherent, vile, grammar-murdering, 4AM Tweets do not speak for me.
His nonsensical press conferences, fully disconnected from truth and reality do not speak for me.
His malevolent, narcissistic, hateful sycophantic surrogates do not speak for me.
His horde of amoral trolls, his white supremacist preacher army, and his predatory cabinet does not speak for me.

He does not speak for me regarding Muslims, women, people of color, immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people, global warming, religion, healthcare, America, nazis—heck, pretty much anything he opens his lying, snarling, Russia-loving mouth about.

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I’m sorry for what he says and who he is and the trauma he brings. As an American trying to be part of the best version of this nation that we can be—I am fully ashamed of him.

He is a national embarrassment to most of us. He is that racist, lecherous uncle who’s had too much to drink at his niece’s wedding reception, who has commandeered the microphone and is now spewing forth a rambling, facepalm-inducing diatribe and will not relinquish the floor.

We the people, are the horrified hosts, sick to our stomachs at the ugliness on the microphone and wondering how we’ll ever be able to fix the damage being done—and wishing we could disappear into the upholstery.

I am an American still trying to make this place what is was supposed to be.
I am an American who knows America is not perfect but also that it should not be this.
I am an American pushing back against the hatred we are still afflicted by.
I am an American who remembers we are a nation of immigrants and disparate souls seeking refuge.
I am an American who takes that Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of happiness stuff seriously.
I am an American who believes the Constitution should matter.
I am an American who is tired of being represented by a monster.

I am an American—and he does not speak for me.