W. Bryan Hubbard

But it is fabulous.

San Francisco is the same way.

There are so many wonderful places in the United States where you wouldn't think that somebody necessarily who sounded like me would endorse.

But one of the best things that I have done is stop watching television news.

The last time I watched television news was after the first Obama press conference in January of 2009, and I cut it off.

Wow.

Aside from presidential debates and election returns, I've never turned it back on.

I shouldn't tell this.

The number of times I've left my front door wide open, the garage door open in my neighborhood, and nothing has happened is remarkable.

This country, in terms of her people, is as much like it was back in 1950 as it has ever been.

The complexion is a little different.

We've got a lot more diversity now than we've ever had.

But once you take that blinder of mass media mayhem and all this fabricated division that is purposely put out there to keep us divided.

To keep us tuning in.

Tuning in and segregated.

Yeah.

Once you take yourself out of it and you just start having a conversation, next time someone gets into an Uber with someone who doesn't have English as a sacred language, strike up a conversation.

Ask them, how did you come to the United States?

What brought you here?

And your heart is going to fill with just the unbelievable amount of pride and love to hear those accents from the Middle East and from Africa speak about this country in ways that take us right back to 1776.