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This Is Not The World I Want To Live In

We were all humans until race disconnected us, politics divided us, and judgments blinded us.

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This Is Not The World I Want To Live In

I guess I've always been a little ignorant to what kind of world that we live in today. When I came to college, that all kind of changed for me because I was thrown into a pool of diversity that I was not accustomed to. Looking back to a year ago today, I don't think I realized anything was wrong with the world but now today, I see the world isn't just sunshine and flowers anymore.

I don't want to live in a world where I hear little black boys at work talking about police brutality. These are children and shouldn't have to be worried about getting gunned down if they make one wrong move. I don't want to live in a world where children can't be children.

I don't want to live in a world where police brutality is this huge problem. Police are paid to protect all people, so why are whites being fully protected and the others are having a problem with them? People say there isn't racism, but that's because they are the problem.

I don't want to live in a world where people can't openly admit how they feel. We live in a world of hook-ups, “he said, she said”, lack of communicating, and casual dating. Everyone is afraid of commitment and to let people see the real you, under the façade of what everyone else sees. Being a hopeless romantic in this world that’s stuck in a hookup culture is a special kind of hell and not a world I want to live in.

I don't want to live in a world where an eighteen-year-old girl can't go to a musical festival without being ridiculed. Malia Obama has gotten so much negative press because she missed the last day of the Democratic National Convention so she could go be an actual teenager. Why does it matter what she is doing? She isn't the leader of the free world, her father is.

I don't want to live in a world where we can't take care of our war veterans. I'm sick of seeing our veterans neglected the attention and medical that they need because we would rather give them the cold shoulder than deal with the problem at hand.

I don't want to live in a world of ignorance. I think it's time that more people open their eyes to the problems of our society and acknowledge that we do, in fact, have a problem. It's not something to blame on our government. It's not the president's fault. It's not Congress' fault. It's not our mayor's fault. The problem is "we the people." So "we the people" need to open our eyes sooner rather than later.

I want a world where our children can be happy and carefree. I want a world free of racism, where people don't see color. I want a world of love and commitment. I want a world of no judgment. I want a world where we respect those who served us. I want a world of awareness.

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