Excerpt from newsletter from xxxx (redacted) Family Institute, received on September 11 at 5:09 PM:

“When the World Feels Like It is Breaking. Everyone is talking about the death of Charlie Kirk, and everything related to it. And if we’re all talking about it, it means it matters. People are angry. They want their voices to be heard. They’re trying to make sense of horrors that feel senseless. Minds are spinning with painful images, and uncertainty about what’s next…I am noticing hopelessness creeping in. Use ‘I’ statements…model forgiveness…May you find strength to hold your children, courage to hold your grief, and hope to keep showing up.“

My response, sent September 11 at 6:27 PM:

“Dear xxxx (redacted) Family Institute: I will unsubscribe to your mailing list, but I also felt that it was important for you to understand why I am unsubscribing. Here is an “I” statement for you: I find it incredibly troubling that you would send out this message in response to the death of a man who advocated – nay, reveled in – so much gun violence, racism and misogyny, yet not in response to the multitude of school shootings that have occurred. One even occurred yesterday and yet that merits no mention from you – although the death of a single individual did. And not just any individual – an individual who openly stated that gun deaths were a price worth paying to protect the 2nd Amendment (obviously not meaning his own – other people’s – schoolchildren being fine – everyone besides MAGA folks), a man who suggested -and continued to suggest up to the moment of his death – that transgender individuals were responsible for a majority of mass shootings and “gang violence” responsible for more, that children should be witness to public executions, that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge mistake”, who called MLK Jr. “awful”, that being gay was an “error”, etc, etc…among a plethora of other statements of hatred and bigotry.

I can only hope that your organizational priorities also include supporting children and families who feel broken living in a society that is showing the undeniable taint of the violent propaganda, hatred, and unfettered access to firearms espoused by people such as Charlie Kirk, who has merited – for some perplexing reason – such a place of honor in this newsletter.

Yours sincerely,

etc.etc.”