- Oct 2017
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If children are taught to promote peace and love, and to care for one another, why can’t our government lead by example and try to instill this ideal into our severely broken country? Our priority, as a country, should be to fix ourselves. We are broken, divided, and tired, and the buffoon in power is doing nothing to help that. He is only causes further division and polarization, which will lead to the demise of this great country I call home. We need to focus on racism and what systematic racism is and looks like. We need to focus on promoting kindness and hospitality to each other and those who need our help. We need to focus on being decent human beings who support each other and embody what it means to be an American.
Kristin, Thank you for being an ally. I have spoken with many white people who do not see an issue with the way the country is dealing with this issues. They also don't view them as issues. It breaks my heart to know that there are people who are not affected by the deaths of hundreds of blacks at the hands of police and white supremacists. I think the issue is that kids are not being taught to love in general, they are being taught to love what looks like them, acts like them, and talks like them. And if it is anything other than that they are taught to hate it. We cant change the world until we reconstruct the REAL principles that it was built on.
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. I dealt with issues of prejudice and discrimination for being gay, and many experience this same thing based on race. Although both groups are largely discriminated against by our current presidential administration, their causes and experiences differ.
Austin, You raise a great point here. It seems as though the systems in place go against anything that is "different" from the normal standard that has been set. I do think that although many face discrimination due to being apart of the LGBTQ community still posses many privileges that minorities will never have. Minorities cant change their skin color but queer people are able to appear "straight". I think we need more allies within every community. We are all facing the same struggle just in different ways and coming together would be much better than only fighting fights for things that impact us personally.
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