Not one inch

My wife is crying. It is four days after the election and my wife is still crying. After four days she was finally able to explain to me why she was so upset. She is terrified that the election of Donald Trump means that all she has worked for, all her closest friends have worked for, cared about, and fought for to reduce intolerance and promote dignity and equality will be erased with the stroke of a pen.

I met my spouse while working at a university in Nashville, Tennessee. She grew up in rural Tennessee about 40 miles north of Nashville, in the ’50s and ’60s. For her, racism, sexism...