Resist

Published on Dec 09, 2025

A response to President Donald J. Trump's demagoguery

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

“We could go one way or the other — and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.” - Donald Trump, December 2, 2025

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garbage (noun) - discarded or useless material

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Somalis are not garbage.

Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image..." (Genesis 1:26)

Somalis are made in God's image.

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As are we all.

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Listen to the words of Somali writer Nadifa Mohamed

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in her book The Orchard of Lost Souls.

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"She remembers clambering up the barred window

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onto the flat roof of the orphanage with Anab

and watching the camp settle into sleep.

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If there was enough moonlight

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they could see pale mountains in the distance

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and beneath them a swathe of the camp.

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Everything crisp and clean,

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the sky blue-black

and the stars like a thousand kind eyes

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watching over the forgotten people,

smoke from cooking fires

spiraling up like prayers."

Somalis are the stars.

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Somalis are the poetic prayers.

Look closely.

Listen carefully.

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Humanization,

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not dehumanization.

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Resist.

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Trevor Barton

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