My Father-In-Law Voted for Trump

"I asked Pop-Pop, Did you vote for Trump?” That’s what my 9 year old daughter said she’d asked her grandfather. “And Mom, he said 'yup'! Why would he do that?” As our car moved closer to her south philly art school destination, I pondered that very question. My husband and I have been together for almost 12 years and I’d be lying if I said we never talked about race. We do. It’s a part of the fabric of society and as an interracial couple with a multi-religious family, the topic comes up quite often. It’s a topic that I’m always more than willing to have with my husband because he gets it. All of it, without me having to explain why he should get IT. I think his boatloads of empathy has a lot to do with that. In fact, I think empathy is what a lot of people do not have enough of and this becomes very problematic in a society that was developed by the systematic slaughter, theft, and forced labor of entire black and brown populations of people. Now