The following is my November 9, 2016 outburst FB post.  It is as emotionally current today as then, and probably will be for a long time.

It is gut-wrenching to try to instill values – like love, kindness, compassion, knowledge, information-sharing, learning, self-improvement, education, progress, diplomacy, respectful discourse, open-mindedness, open-hearted-ness, and work ethic – and then get straight-up proof that so many people don’t care about these values. To get straight-up proof that so many willfully ignore history and reality and others’ pain. To get straight-up proof that so many won’t even try to see through obvious-to-any-5th-grader propaganda. To get straight-up proof that so many cater to and manipulate the ugly timeless practice of white people to lay blame for their woes on anyone but themselves – perpetually furious over their tough times, even while others’ are risking life and limb and language barriers and mistreatment and long years of multiple below-their-qualifications jobs just to get here to less-tough times, so their kids or grand-kids might have better lives. If you’re a fact and data driven human being, this proof sucks.