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In this May 18, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington.(Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press)

HAMBURG, Germany News reports are coming almost too quickly for reaction. The dispatches are being described as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes fast, furious and all over the place.

The investigation of a U.S. president is dominating global news and is a major subject at this year's World Congress of the International Press Institute, of which I am a member.

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But here's the thing: We cannot continue to swat at news like bothersome flies at a picnic, or gird ourselves, like with hurricanes. So rather than offer thoughts specifically about ...

the Department of Justice ordering a special counsel to investigate whether Donald Trump or any of his associates should be charged with a crime in #Russiagate. the death of former Fox head Roger Ailes.

orthe white Tulsa police officer who will not be charged for killing an unarmed black driver.;

my hope is that we do what University of Missouri journalism professor Marty Steffens advised journalists covering Trump: "When you're in a hurricane, build a strong foundation."

America is in a hurricane, so we need to strengthen our foundation rather than focus on sides, at least for a while. That means we cannot continue doing what we've been doing wrong.

We have spent the past seven years, since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010, taking up sides on either side of a wall.

We have spent the past four years, since George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin, growing in number on either side of that wall.

We have spent nearly two years, since Donald Trump became a presidential candidate, adding even more people and vitriol on both sides of that wall.

Unfortunately, that wall that divides us on so many issues, has not pushed the wall one way orthe other. Rather, the wall has grown higher, so neither side can hear the yelling from those on the other side.

And we have been wrong, in each instance, to choose to be adversaries, rather than Americans allied to solve problems;to find ways to do what is best for America. We don't need a third political party. Oh, America will need it later, but not now when our country is at stake. Now, we need to unite on the side that wants America to continue to thrive and continue to be the world's greatest superpower, not a power partner with Russia, fighting wars in nine countries and empowering a rise in overt racial hatred unseen in this country for decades.

We cannot continue to choose the wrong sides in the police versus innocent black men feud. Oh, it is a feud, a blood feud that hasnt affected everyone, but could affect anyone. But it won't end by taking sides or criticizing deaths when they happen. We must unite, all on one side, and fight it together.

We can no longer pretend that Obamacare wasn't about making sure that all Americans have health care. We must unite as one country that doesn't want Americans dying because they cannot get access to a doctor. It is that simple. When you remove partisan politics and rhetoric, that is what is left.

So why dont we start here: Let us look at what the wall is, what it represents. That wall is dividing America, not by ideology, but between right and wrong.

Where President Donald Trump is concerned, lets not make the fight about Trump but about right and wrong. If Trump has done nothing wrong, as he contends, he should have nothing to fear from an investigation. His supporters must convince him of that and stand with him, with everybody on the right side of the wall.

If the GOP doesn't want Obamacare which my friend Daoud Kuttab from Jordan calls Obamacares then every member of Congress should work together on Realcare. It would be a plan that would save people as well as save dollars. Who could be opposed to that?

Where the police are concerned, it is past time to have conversations with the majority of officers who arent thugs and work to keep them safe while they keep us safe. We cannot pretend that there arent people who use their uniforms to harm, but we have to change the dynamic of our interactions and work together to stand, rightversus wrong.

My hope, as I watch my country from 4,000 miles away, is that we remember that we are America versus everybody.

We can have allies and enemies, but neither should come between us Americans. We don't need another wall in America. We have one.

On one side are those fighting for the America we know, one that embraces exceptionalism, diversity and a greatness that already existed two years ago and still exists now.

On the other side, mixed in like weeds among hardworking people who want the same hope and change America asked for in 2008, are the unAmericans who are using the Trump presidency to advance their own causes. Some are using it as an excuse to empower their hatred, as an absurd opportunity to embrace the misguided notion of a white supremacy they once hid under sheets.

Some are people telling folks who have never been to Africa to go back to Africa. Some are people telling Jews the Holocaust didn't happen, and some are calling for a separate America for white people.

Those on that hate side are welcome to leave their hatred behind and come around to the American side of the wall, or they are welcome to just leave and find a place outside America where they can continue to hate American values and greatness. The rest of us will stand together, live together, work together to be the envy of the world. The world is pulling for us because much, not all, but a heck of a lot of the world, wants to be us. They are watching how we handle the wall we have, let alone the wall some want, because they are counting on us, particularly journalists.

"Right now, the world is watching the Trump story, and for a country like Zambia,that depends on knowing what's going on in America, we are telling the press 'Don't stop!'''said Joan Chirwa, editor-in-chief and CEO of the Mast, an independent newspaper in Lusaka, Zambia, that was shut down by the government but continued to operate from a street corner. "We are always looking up to America in terms of press freedom. How is America going to speak in defense of press freedom when they are represented by a government having problems with press freedom?"

There's America. And there's the world. And much of that world wants what we've built.

So we dont need more walls to separate us from us. When were all on one side, we wont need a wall at all.

Contact Rochelle Riley:rriley99@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @rochelleriley.

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