A group of people yelled and chanted, but Hamid ignored them and delivered her important and peaceful message.
If we want to make America safe again, she said, empowering people to be hateful is the wrong way to go about it. “It does not have to be us versus them,” she said.
Trump aide Paul Manafort said Monday that the protests outside the arena would show “a lawlessness and lack of respect for political discourse.”
They did, but it wasn’t Rose Hamid’s side. It was the protesters aligned with a man who spews hatred and yet has become a major party’s candidate for U.S. president. Besides violating core American values of inclusion, Trump’s approach foments division, and does nothing to lead us out of a distressingly scary time.
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