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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am writing to </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">let you
know that this statement was recently released. I think this is important for all of us to know.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I am writing to let you all know that we stand together as a respectful and caring Department community to reject, admonish, and denunciate
such hateful acts, manipulated to sound patriotic and caring. The only "empathy" statements we have seen from this administration are weaponized. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I am writing to let you know that we will continue to annunciate that we all stand together to support one another, and, in particular, the
most vulnerable among us, in this hate-filled time. We are a community that will survive and thrive. We will continue to reach out to one another, check in with each other, and especially connect with our loved ones, especially those who were, are, or might
be undocumented. </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-day-remembrance-americans-killed-illegal-aliens-2020/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!LhFIvUTvh9hwVJKn4KC9sXuN0LXsOAGztl7i3pMp83mcrFbflDbWiqCdWHIjrE_iuCqQxao$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-national-day-remembrance-americans-killed-illegal-aliens-2020/</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, this statement, unsurprisingly, is full of lies.
</span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it is doubly insulting and colonizing because this is intended to override a very important Latinx/Mexican/Central
American period of remembrance and love, the Day of the Dead.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I denounce this "National Day of Mourning"</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(50, 49, 48);">Instead, today, November 1, I will remember:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...Thousands of immigrants seeking asylum from violence only to be tortured at our border through family separation
(see the Geneva Convention; Amnesty International definitions of torture);</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...545 immigrant children left without parents and parents left without their children because of an abusive US policy;</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...African Americans killed by police use of lethal force at a rate that is 2.8 times higher than for whites;</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...232,000 human beings killed in the US by Covid-19, as of November 1, too many killed by the administration's malicious
incompetence and weaponizing of public health;</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...All of you and your families and friends.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I thank Dr. Melanie Domenech-Rodriguez and Dr. Patricia Arredondo and our National Latinx Psych Association colleagues
for sending this link around to remind everyone how zenophobic hate is being spurred for personal and political gain.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Try to stay focused and connected this coming week. The rough roller coaster ride we have been on will continue for
a while. You all have the resilience to get through it and we have a supportive community to turn to. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Remember the love in your lives and keep up the air-hugs!!</span></div>
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<div class="PlainText">Benedict T. McWhirter, Ph.D.<br>
Professor, Counseling Psychology and Prevention Science<br>
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College of Education<br>
University of Oregon<br>
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