I would never want to post a response article written by me onto Jill Stein’s Facebook page, but after hearing the audio tape of Hillary Clinton advocating for a rigged Palestinian election, I now have a profound understanding of the harm that will come if she is President of the United States. And I feel it is my duty—as a human being—to properly address why I am fighting so hard against it. Why so many of us are fighting this hard.

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A Clinton presidency is D A N G E R O U S .

And no, I'm not just saying that because of her white-privileged faux feminism. Google it. My vote is indeed... going... to a woman (and a white one at that).

I do not want someone in office that knows the system the way Clinton does. If Obama can do what he's done, it scares the hell out of me to think about the damage and destruction Hillary will cause—and how much power the 99 percent will lose in the process.

You're right when you say she knows politics like no other politician.

Hillary Clinton, you will never get this vote.

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I say that because in THIS election, those words have never made more sense to me than they do today. People will not survive the status quo, or even a tiny bit better than the status quo.

We need a profound shift in how this country operates.

We need to be having conversations about how we build a better tomorrow, not about how we slow down a horrific today.

Do you see the Dakota Access Pipeline? Do you see the oil spills (two just this week)? Do you see black bodies bleeding out because of a system we enable, or the black and brown bodies abroad that are dying at the hands of the U.S.—paid for by you and me? That's our hard-earned money enabling the killing of those bodies. Do you hear how disgusting that sounds? Do you not see why our hands are not clean, and that yes—I'm going to say it—we, The Great United States of America, might be a major part of the problem? Do you not pay attention to the world-renowned life-time giving scientists who are telling us we will see coastal flooding by 2050—do you wish for a time when we are rationing water? Do you not see that we are breaching agreements to cause a fight with Russia over air, land, oil and money, because we always need more, and more, and more? WWIII—are you prepared for that? Do you not understand that you can have two completely separate thoughts—one about internet security, and one about the content that's in these frigging emails? What are you so scared to see—that we might not actually be saviors?

So yes: If a Trump presidency would mean that we have to fight ignorants in the streets—I'm ready for that. I know that kind of racism. We already live in that kind of racism everyday—let's bring it to light and start calling it out. It is time you start asking yourself some tough questions: Why are you so eagerly okay staying in the status quo, when you know that that same status quo continues to leave far too many Black children fatherless and motherless because of the color of their skin? This status quo continues to desecrate the sacred burial grounds and prayer ceremonies—do you think this would ever happen to Arlington Cemetery, or churches? Can you imagine not being able to turn on your faucet since 2014 because it is poisoned? Have you heard of Flint, Michigan? We have been forced to deal with all this because the deep embedded racism that formed this country is the FOUNDATION of our system. And this is just the damage being done in our country, and please, I haven't even begun to kind-of scratch the surface here. Could you imagine what the United States would be doing if Russia suddenly started putting their troops in Canada and Mexico? That is what we are doing to them right now. How can you even begin to have a real conversation when you are already drawing your gun before they've opened their mouth. Our police execute Black bodies like this regularly—isn't it obvious who they learned that from?

Trump is a product of our society. He is not the root cause.

The racism that eerily creeps and lurks and twists and controls the oppression we've not ever escaped—and has convinced you that we are saviors—is a power that scares the sh*t out of me. And the willful ignorance of those you thought were your allies, is an excruciating pain—a pain my grandmother once told me about, but had never taken real meaning until now.

This is why I am proud to cast my vote for Dr. Jill Stein and Mr. Ajamu Baraka. I know I'm on the right side of history. And I say that not to be snide, cocky or arrogant—I say that because I feel unburdened. And I feel empowered to do the things I know we have to do to truly fix our system, even if that means taking a left turn to get on the right path.

A majority of Americans, didn't support MLK at the time he was fighting and only began appreciating him after he was assassinated.

I've learned that lesson, and I know where the lesser evil/split-vote banter gets you. I will not be responsible for what Clinton's presidency will end up producing.

Now is the time for a strategic vote—one that puts us in a position to have an honest dialogue about topics we should have had far too many deaths ago.

For all those fighting, thank you for being brave. For all those feeling beaten down, trust me when I say... they are feeling our power.
#KeepPushing #StrategicVote

XO,
Jillian

#VoteGreen2016

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