Easy for a cis white male to say.

Are you urging calm and complacency right now? Congratulations. You’re most likely white and/or male. Historically the most privileged demographic to ever to walk the earth, and the class of people President Trump will affect the least.

Here is what I urge you to do. I urge you to consider what this morning felt like to a woman who will now have the government dictating her reproductive health rights. Consider the feeling of waking up as a Muslim American with a president-elect advocating a ban of your entire religion from immigrating to this nation you call home. The feeling of a Latin-American who woke up with a president-elect that denigrated your entire race as rapists and drug dealers. How about the feeling of an LGBT person that woke up with a vice president -elect that promotes conversion therapy to cure you of your sinful desires.

No – I will never accept this as rational political discourse for America. What I will do is pledge to any marginalized political minorities to be your advocate, day in and day out. I will do everything in my capacity to vocalize, petition, and protest a government that denies rights expressly guaranteed by our nation’s constitution.

I urge you to do the same.