When you see a string of news stories talking about a particular group of people, it may seem safer to judge someone who shares common characteristics with that group, such as race, based on what you've seen on the news.  A coward will write off that entire group as too risky or dangerous to have anything to do with.  Or too strange.  Too foreign.  Too different.

We need to not be cowards. If we continue with this spineless way of interacting, we fail as a society.  As a country.  As a species.  40% of America supports the president who is pushing the narrative that the last 160 years of atrocities and discrimination against black Americans didn't happen. As they protests to try to end unjustified violence against their community, this President responds with more violence. It's more than that though.  Prejudice and even hatred runs rampant among his supporters and has become part of his re-election platform as he panders to White supremacists and encourages his followers to act out, sometimes even with violence, against the rest of us.  

Since the start of his first campaign, he has effectively written off blacks, Muslims, women, the LGBT community, and everyone else who doesn't share his distorted vision of the world.

The moment we start writing off entire groups of people, we are lost.  

The fact that I am even bothering to talk to you Trump supporters should tell you, I haven't written you off yet.  There is hope that even you might wake up tomorrow and decide to be better than the day you were before.  And if you do want to be better, keep in mind that you can't be a supporter of Donald Trump without also supporting the things he does that frequently cost people their lives.