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Dear America: Part III

A final letter to the United States of America

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Dear America: Part III
Alphacoders

Dear America,

I would like to apologize to you on behalf of the population of people who inhabit your land.

I am sorry for what we have put you through. We have taken your native people from you, only to take another race from their native land and bring them here to treat them like animals.

We don't take care of your children because they're lazy if we do, so we expect them to do everything on their own. We give them the right to vote and join the military, often times before they graduate high school but expect them to decide what they will do for the rest of their lives only months after they have to ask permission to get a drink of water.

We have school systems that focus on training obedience rather than ensuring that each student actually comprehends what they are being "taught."

We tell your citizens that they have no right to their bodies, minds or souls. We tell your women that they have to carry a pregnancy to term and have the child of the man who raped her but won't let that child use women's bathroom because he was assigned "boy" at birth.

We spend money on two story tour buses and treat your big cities like zoos, meanwhile some of your inhabitants; pillows are their shoes.

We tell your men that if they have feelings then they must be gay and sent to church camp so they can pray it away.

We have two puppets running for president; we can't agree on which is the one with more strings and neither one of them are going to fix any of these issues.

Donald Trump is right. We have some bad people, some bad, bad people in this country. We need to get them out and stop them from running for president.

Hillary Clinton said, "we're standing but we're not yet running." I'm going to take this out of context for a second and say she's absolutely wrong. We're not even standing.

I hope that we fix this for you in 2020.

Sincerely,

Your inhabitants.

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