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Even With A Biden Presidency, I’m Not Making Amends With My Trump Loving Family and Friends
Biden wants the nation to heal by asking Americans to listen to each other again, but I have no intention of rekindling relationships with anyone close to me that supported Trump.
My aunt and best friend voted for Trump in 2016. At the time, I was taken aback that two people so close to me voted for a racist. I messaged my aunt shortly after I learned of what she did and asked her how she could support him knowing the family that she was in. My aunt is White, but she was very much so in a Black family. We were unapologetically Black and I never once felt threatened by her; not until I learned she voted for Trump.
We went back and forth over her voting for him and pretty much came to the conclusion that she “only” voted for him because of economic reasons. She didn’t want her taxes to go up, was pro-life, and pro-gun. My friend had similar reasons for voting for Trump. Although I came away from the conversations extremely frustrated and in disbelief, I maintained my relationships with my aunt and friend until 2020.
Around the time of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest, I began to question why I was maintaining…
