Entering into this season of Thanksgiving, there is much to contemplate. A very tumultuous and divisive election season has been completed, with celebration and disappointment abounding, depending on one’s choice of candidate. Protests in response to the outcome of the election seem like something that we would see on a world news report in reference to a country far from our own, yet these protests are occurring on our own city streets.

This election has raised the specter of a country divided along many lines – political party, race, religion, ancestry and ethnicity, gender and gender identification, and sexual preference – and the list goes on.