[JI] Hi I'm Jill... [JE] ...and I'm Jenna. [JI] Welcome to ASL Stew Life!
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[JI] Welcome, so today we wanted to talk about the reason we're scared.
The reason we're scared is...
for example, if I bring up my Facebook feed pretty much all it talks about is politics.
I'm usually not a big political person, we don't really talk about it on this channel
but I feel like now... we kind of have to.
I am scared.
You know, I look at my feed and I see that Trump is
setting up... you know banning people from entering the United States.
Refugees from coming into the United States from many different countries.
You know I work at a college. We have a lot of international students there.
Just to know that they are scared and going through this horrible time right now
because of stupid Trump. I'm sorry, but it's not right!
Then I see more, and more, and more things happening you know.
With the Dakota pipeline, the wall... all of these things make me scared!
I mean what the hell is happening to this country?
I don't know.
I mean its not the end of the world yet... YET.
But it kind of makes me scared.
[JE] Yeah, you know with Trump becoming president last week,
well more than a week ago. [JI] A week!
[JE] He's done all of these things,
the immigration ban, DPL, even agaisnt the queer community.
Allowing states to go ahead and set up any sort of restrictions that they want.
Passing bills agaisnt us.
So, it just makes people feel like it's okay to judege and hate and discriminate
becasue of our so called president. I don't even call him my president.
But you know "president" Trump.
So, I don't know. I just feel disgusted and concerned.
I mean it's been a week. What's gonna happen in four years?
It doesn't look good.
[JI] I know some people think it's not a big deal
and it's reallly no problem but you know we have Muslim friends.
We are queer, so there's a lot of things we can relate to.
Our Muslim friends are having a hard time.
People are harrassing them. It is worse for them.
Even their neighbors are concerned for their life and that's not right!
This is suppose to be America, where we're suppose to be understanding
and open-minded and the land of the free and accepting and liberty and all of this.
But now we're not.
Sometimes, I have to be honest, I have to stop looking at my feed.
I have to stop looking because it's depressing and I can't handle it.
You know I woke up this morning and I looked at my feed
and I literally started crying because I'm so scared.
That doesn't mean I'm gonna let depression take over my life and I'm not gonna do anything.
I will do something. But first.. we can talk about it here.
[JE] Right, it's important to have a balance.
Activism is important, but self-care is important too
because sometimes you get so depressed and overwhelmed that you know
maybe you don't look at your Facebook feed
or stay home or do something to make you feel better.
We have to take care of ourselves and have that balance.
So that we can be ready and get back into action and do things.
Like going to rallies with other people and supporting each other
and feeling that solidarity. Just so people don't feel they're alone.
We're there to support you no matter what your background is.
Plus doing political actions like calling or being involved in different ways
but at the same time keeping self-care. That's really important to be balanced.
[JI] Right, so on this channel we do want to talk more about the things that you can do.
Not right now, but there's just so many different things that you can do.
It could be something small or it could be something big,
but everybody can do something and it doesn't matter if you're shy or not.
There's a lot of things that you can do which we will discuss more upcoming.
But remember, just because it's not you or you're not Muslim
or you're not queer, that doesn't mean you can sit back and not do anything.
You still need to support other people and show solidarity with them
because maybe... they're going for someone else now
or they're agaisn't this person or this person,
but then later who's gonna be left.... you.
So don't think that nothing can happen to you.
I'm not trying to scare you or anything
but you do need to think about other people as well.
I know that some people are gonna be mad about this and leave comments
blah, blah, blah. I understand that, but not everyone's gonna agree.
But, you know, I feel like we have to say something.
[JE] Again, this is our opinion and our feelings.
So if you don't like it, feel free to watch something else.
[JI] Right, peace!
So, that's kind of just us letting it out a little bit.
I'm kind of curious of what you think of the whole situation.
Are you in agreement, are you not?
Remember, try and keep it civil.
No swearing. No offending other people because we don't need that
and we'll just delete it. So, I do want your honest opinions.
So leave a comment below. Okay.
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Okay we'll see you in the next video. Bye!
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