Garrett Bucks lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and two children. He the founder of The Barnraisers Project, which has trained nearly 1,000 participants to organize majority-white communities for racial and social justice. He is also the author the book, The Right Kind of White.

Processing and holding my own grief about the election inevitably leads to repeatedly saying, “I can’t believe that people voted for him.” Garret Bucks assures me that this is a reasonable lamentation, a natural expression of grief. ""But part of navigating grief,"" he says, ""is also knowing that there will come a time to take a step forward, and that requires the flexing of different muscles. That 'how could they?' question has value, I’ve found, but not necessarily for clarifying a path forward.""

""So if that’s what I’m not going to do,"" he asks, ""what am I going to do? I’m going to love the hell out of you. All of you.""

""I’m going to love you all the time, but especially when you’re at your most vulnerable. I’m going to believe, with all my heart, that you deserve so much more than the mess we’ve inherited. You deserve to be safe. You deserve to feel loved and respected. You deserve to not be taken advantage of – by bosses, by loved ones, by strangers, by systems. You deserve to not have a gun pointed at your face or a bomb targeted at your house. You deserve to have a job that you love that offers you dignity and a decent wage. You deserve to not be broke and to eat good food and live in a dignified dwelling and go to school and the hospital without paying a bill. If you have kids, you deserve to have those kids on your terms, and to receive help (both from your community and your government) in ensuring that those kids grow up enveloped in love and belief in their potential. You deserve a union. You deserve a neighborhood. You deserve to feel loved and seen. You deserve an actual democracy, in every sense of the word. You deserve a planet to live on.""

He reminds me of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assertion that ""hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that"".

Article: I'm Gonna Love the Hell Out of You.