By Kit-Bacon Gressitt

Perhaps you hate President Obama

Because he won re-election
Because he’s a Democrat
Because he’s Black

Because he supports same-sex marriage
Because he organized to fight prejudice
Because he lived in Chicago

Because he initiated heathcare reform
Because he sometimes compromises
Because he sometimes doesn’t

Because he hesitates when he speaks
Because he’s weak on some issues
Because he’s strong on others

Because he’s confident
Because he has a strong African-American wife
Because his mother was white

Because his middle name is Hussein
Because his father is from Kenya
Because his ears stick out, albeit just a little

Because hate is always that ridiculous.

Or perhaps you hate President Obama

Because he called for “meaningful action” on gun control
Because twenty children, six school staff, one young madman and his mother were killed
Because the young man entered a school and started shooting

Because he had access to semi-automatic pistols and assault rifles
Because his mother was a collector of weapons of mass destruction
Because she could be

Because the gun lobby is powerful
Because the mental health lobby is not
Because her son’s mental illness is scary

Because we hate hate funding mental healthcare more
than the shooting deaths of twenty children
six school staff
one young madman and his mother.

Love,
K-B