Lakitha Tolbert
1 min readSep 24, 2024

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I think I'm a little bit diffferent from everyone else then. I'm never so enamored of anyone's friendship that I won't dump them immediately if I feel they ever hurt me that badly. In fact, I told my best friend at work, a white woman, since I was unsure of whatever her politics were, that if I ever find out she voted for trump, I'd dump her in a hot second. I told her I'd miss being friends with her but that I would simply take the pain, that I managed to live most of my life without her in it, and I'll survive fine without her again. I told her to not ever tell me if she did.

I don't care what any lukewarm centrist says about dumping people for their political views. For me, it's about the character of someone who can ignore someone of such vile character, and then vote thst person into the highest office in the land. It's not because he's Republican. I have had friends who are Republicans. Its because he's such a vile human being that liking him says something distasteful about their own character. I could even maybe forgive voting for him one time, but never twice, like your friend did. I don't care if she did change her mind. She couldn't come back and we couldn't be friends again, and I would tell her that.

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Lakitha Tolbert
Lakitha Tolbert

Written by Lakitha Tolbert

(She/Her) Busybody librarian from Ohio.

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