I would never, ever ask my Black friends how they are after yet another Black person's murder. I already know. But that's because we talk regularly, I give a flying shit, and what matters to them matters a great deal to me. I dumped friends because they chose Trump. Readers dumped me because I write about BLM and race. FINE. If those readers- as one did- announce that BLM is a "terrorist organization" I don't want their moron eyeballs on my work. I no longer return phone calls to women I've known for nearly fifty years because they attended the Rushmore rally. That, kindly, said every single thing I needed to know. A vote for Trump was a vote for racism, hate, ignorance, viciousness and White Supremacy.