A friend passed on this video from videographer Meredith Kaufman Younger and Arab American Tenor Karim Sulayman who produced this moving piece called I Trust You . Sulayman sings Sinead O’Connor’s “In This Heart” which plays under the video of a blindfolded Sulayman standing with his sign outside the Trump Tower. The text reads, “Hello, my name is Karim and I am an Arab-American. Like many people who are Black. Brown, Women, LGBTQIA, Latinx, Muslim, Jewish, Immigrants and Other, I am very Scared. We are anxious and uneasy in our own country and it’s difficult to see what lies ahead for us. But I have hope that I am Safe with You. Together we can build a community of caring rather than one of Fear. You can trust me to care for you no matter who you are, what you look like, or where you are from. Will you embrace me as willingly as I embrace you? Will you shake my hand and/or HUG me and/or take a phot with me and post it as a sign that I am safe here with you? I TRUST YOU." Makes me sad and gives me hope.
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