My ancestors survived the Middle Passage.

That was no easy task. Torn from their loved ones and homelands, nearly 2 million drowned or died of sicknesses during 80-day ship voyages packed side by side below deck without room to sit up or move.

I am sure my ancestors wanted to give up on those ships or during the 400 years of American history that passed.

I am grateful they didn’t.

Their names, languages and cultures were stolen long ago but not their souls. I felt their love in my heart the night the nation I love elected a man president who fans the flames of racism, sexism, xenophobia and homophobia.

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I felt........

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