“Fuck no.”
I had zero interest in phone banking for an unabashedly racist and misogynistic candidate, I told my editor. As the biracial child of immigrants, I knew that Trump—and people who support him—might be okay with only half of my heritage. While Trump might allow white European immigrants like my German father (and Trump’s third wife) into the country, they might demean and ban people like my Filipino mother.
I simply wasn’t interested in getting into a confrontation with an angry old bigot on what was supposed to be my day off…
