Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We took our friends out to dinner for his seventieth birthday, and though we attempted to keep off the topic, the events of last week haunted us.  We are all families of immigrants, even me, who has Native American stock on both sides, and we fear for our friends and others.  I have many relatives who are Muslim from Fiji, and I'm afraid of what this hate will mean to them.  Already some of them have Americanized their first names to protect themselves.  These are peace loving, kind, good citizens.  They came here for refuge from a dictator who declared only Christianity was acceptable and abolished all Hindu, Muslim and other holidays.  What a nightmare this is for them.  I cannot accept that this is who we are as a nation now.  And a President does not have the right to ignore the citizens for his own prejudices.  I'm proud of the people demonstrating at the airports.  I wish more legislators would stand up for what is right and stop thinking about their re-election and lobbyists.  Now is the time for courage.  Clearly, a lot of ordinary WOMEN have it, how about our representatives stop being so afraid.  Say what is right and what is wrong.  Read the Constitution again if you need to, but dig deep and gut up.  Do the right thing.