I can't tell you how long it will last until the extinction happens. I don't know how long this fight is going to be. All I can tell you is to keep standing side by side and keep fighting!

Keep protesting and keep speaking out. We have to remember we are working towards something greater than we've ever had. We don't want to be "great again". We want to be great for the first time.

Everything that is happening now is the temper tantrum of a toddler who is facing extinction. It is meant to wear you down until he, really they, get what they want. They want to be told they are the best and to have all of the power like it has always been. That's why we have to stay the course.

He couldn't have won legitimately because he wasn't born here. He couldn't be better than them. They were still the top of the food chain. Every step forward toward a more just society draws extinction bursts from people who have learned to expect more than their share of privilege, says Martha Beck

He was elected based on merit and the country stopped reinforcing those ideas and behaviors. Those groups didn't know what to do and couldn't accept this new reality.

That's when Trump saw an opening and started promoting the birther theory. It was the grasp those groups needed.

For all of American history heterosexual, white men, and to nearly the same degree heterosexual white women, have had their behaviors and idea of superiority reinforced. All of a sudden an intelligent, well spoken, compassionate, black man challenged their behavior and superiority.