Okay, this is going to be another serious blog for me. Normally I’m not the most political person. Not that I don’t care, I’ve just never educated myself like I should have. I knew what I needed to know, and I knew right from wrong, but recently I have been trying to change that. I think we all know that we are living in a time of fear, manipulation, division, and inhumanity. I would just like to talk about how this is affecting me and how I am scared. Maybe this will help me feel a little better about it all.
I can’t go too deep into everything, but I do want to talk about the things I have seen and the censorship that is going on. Jimmy Kimmel’s show was canceled due to something he said. He used his first amendment right, not to slander a death, not to talk ill of the people in the situation, but to tell the truth and call out the people who are using a tragic death to gain popularity. Though this is not the biggest thing that has happened recently, it makes me question what is next. Will I not be able to express my opinions in the future? Will my rights be taken from me because I don’t think the same way as all the people who like the color red? Will Big Brother be watching?
Another thing is the cruelties that are happening to innocent people who came to this country for a better life. You know, the thing that was promoted all those years ago. Like the stories you hear of immigrants seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. I can’t believe that people are being picked up off the street and put into prison for living their lives. Some people taken from COURT CASES who are in the process of getting their citizenships. Pregnant women and children are put into these facilities where they are denied treatment for illness along with poor quality of resources, causing their health to deteriorate more. I saw a story of a girl who was taken from her home while babysitting her siblings because she was not American. The worst part of that was they weren’t even looking for her. They were looking for the previous owner. She was a student, and she was ready to make a name for herself. Now, she sits in prison, calling her mother in pain due to her, now, poor health and the pain her scoliosis is causing her. Oh yeah, they aren’t even helping her with her diagnosed problems. This is the most shameful thing I have ever seen. We are seeing concentration camps pop up in the United States, land of the “free”. Free only if you are a rich white man in power.
There is so much more I could talk about, but I’ll end it with the gun violence in our country. Even though everyone says that banning guns will not help with anything going on right now, I don’t think keeping them so easy to get is helping either. There needs to be heavier restrictions. Almost anybody can go into a Walmart down in the south and purchase a shotgun without any background checks. That is horrible because what is stopping someone from buying that gun and shooting up the store? That should not be a question that needs to be asked. And now we are seeing people being murdered all because someone chose that it was their responsibility to make them stop spreading their beliefs. Whether someone is spreading good or bad beliefs, no one gets to determine whether they live or die. Another thing is that students can’t feel safe. School shootings are more common than they should be. We shouldn’t have that problem. Time and time again, we see it happen and the only people who try to prevent it are the schools themselves. And even then, that may not even happen. Then just like Kimmel said, people who only see red use these things to gain political points and spread more hate and violence. They pin the blame on the mentally ill, immigrants, trangenders, and all these people that don’t deserve the blame. Some not even making any sense. I saw one conservative man say transgender people probably kill more people than guns do every year. Make that make sense. At the end of the day, whoever pulled the trigger was able to purchase a gun, bring it into an event, and kill somebody and still, guns apparently aren’t the problem. Yes, people make the decisions to do these bad things, but it there are so many ways we can go about solving the situation instead of spreading more lies and hate.
Like I said, there are so many other problems going on that shivers my timbers like financial aid cuts, Medicaid cuts, tax raises, and specific files not being released. All these things should not be issues, and you’d think it would be common sense, but it isn’t. But whatever gets the rich white men more money, right?
I completely agree with you, and it is insane that people are able to get access to guns so easily now and whenever you try to argue against it, they bring up the second amendment.
i 1000% understand a heavily relate to the frustration that you talk about in this post. i’ve felt that way since i was young, mainly because i was raised by a family that kept me politically aware even when i didn’t understand the full gravity of the stuff they were talking about. stuff like this is why i care so much about history, activism, and the legal system. i truly believe our generation is what its going to take to make any change in this world. its going to be so extremely hard and i know it’ll take an insanly long time, but it’ll be worth it a million times over. not only so that we have the write to speak freely, but so we have the right to live freely. so that humans, animals, and our environment are all protected and cared for equally. i think you should really watch the trial of the chicago 7 biopic movie as the events in 1960s politics and social justice are very similar to whats going on today. its also my favorite movie of all time..