Our collective moral coma

​My name is Ahmed Abdelmageed
I have been called sand ni**a, camel fag, terrorist and wife beater. 

I am sorry if my somber words shocked your conscious awake, even if for a fleeting moment, from its stupor. But we really need to talk. 

No, not about me or how I sometimes maybe treated 

No, not about Leslie Jones per se (pictured below) and the ugliness she is enduring 

And no, not about Trump and how he is "the problem with this country"

We need to talk about the status of collective moral coma in which we find ourselves. 

Trump is not the problem, Trump is the natural consequence of all the problems we have in our country. 

Trump is the simple manifestation of what our country has done and continues to do to people like Leslie Jones and others like her. 

We need to talk about how we continue to seek simple answers to complex questions

We need to talk about the hate that exists among us, within us and around us

I am afraid however, that by the time you have gotten to the end of this post, that fleeting moment of conscious' awakening has already sped by