The United States, this one's for you. It's time we have a little sit-down and go over a little thing called diversity. It's really cool. Considering that almost 40 percent of your population is not white, we thought you'd be into diversity, but somehow, you are not. You like this little thing called division which could be cool, you know, if it wasn't destroying our country, but that's another story, and I'm no storyteller.

You see, the United States, you believe in exceptionalism. You also believe that you have the right to be called America when the entire western hemisphere are the Americas. You are part of this world and not the entirety. The world does not revolve around you. The main problem with seeing yourself as being superior is that you think only a certain few are allowed access to this superiority, peep the division thing I talked about earlier. But what could I possibly mean by the United States is divided? It's the United States for crying out loud. We're united.

But we're not. Look at what happened during the aftermath of the massacre in Orlando. There were people applauding the death of fellow Americans on American soil. What kind of craziness? How can you applaud the death of someone who shares the same nationality as you? It's because you don't see it that way. We view some Americans as being more American than others instead of viewing them as brothers and sisters. We pledge an allegiance to the ideas of this country rather than to other Americans. We'd rather protect the universal image of America than its citizens.

Look at Donald Trump for example. He can talk about hating immigrants, and black people and Mexicans, but his hatred is causing a division. He's inserting himself into a position of superiority over those he considers Other. By doing this, he's asserting that he's more American than immigrants, than black people, or than Mexicans. This is Donald Trump, a man whose family immigrated to the United States in 1885 and whose mother is an immigrant, yet he's seen as more American than I am. I have documented evidence that my family has been in the United States for over 300 years, yet Donald Trump is seen as more American than I am when I am as American as George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or apple pie. Yet, it's never seen that way. If I die in the streets, my American-ness will be discredited because I will be a "thug". I will deserve it in some way because my skin color will never be equated to American. I'm always Other-American, African-American. I'm always reminded of the fact that my home is Africa, never America, although I grew up here and my family has been here longer than the United States has been a country. It becomes even funnier when Mexicans are called Mexican-Americans but never Americans. It's almost like every one in the United States doesn't understand basic history and know that the people living in modern-day Mexico have been a part of the Americas a lot longer than many people in the United States have.

But we never see it this way. We think we believe that America is diverse, but we don't accept diversity. If you live in a semi-nice city, you can have Mexican food, soul food, Jamaican food, Thai food, Chinese food, Japanese food, German food, and the list goes on and on. You can have access to so many cultures, when a majority of the world doesn't. If you go to Lichtenstein, guess what you're gonna find? Europeans. If you go to South Korea, guess what you're gonna find? Koreans. If you go to Tanzania, you're never gonna guess what kind of people are gonna be there? Africans! Did you get that one right? You see, all over the world, when you go to a certain continent, you're gonna find the same kinds of people. There are very few people who aren't African in Africa. (Before you ask, I know South America has a lot of white people, but Africa is huge, and that's a small percentage.) When you go to Asia, you're gonna find a lot of Asians. It's the same when you go to Europe; there are gonna be a lot of Europeans. The Americas, not just the United States, but as a whole are full of so many people of mixed ancestry with different cultures, ideas, and languages, and instead of appreciating these difference, we divide them. We say that some cultures, ideas, and languages are more important than others, not that they are just as valid. We've created a hierarchy of ideas and people, saying that some are better than others. We view white, Christian, heterosexual, male, rich, etc. as being normal or good, and everything else is deviant. That all other traits are things that should not be equated to the United States. It's so bad that we discredit a half-white president from Hawaii because he wasn't as white as the Texan president before him. We say that some Americans are more deserving of death because they aren't as heterosexual or as white as you, so something must be wrong with them.

The sad part is when we leave the United States and go to another country, we're all the same to them. It doesn't matter if we're white or black. Rich or poor. Christian or Muslim. Heterosexual or homosexual. All of us will be viewed as people of the United States, so why don't we see each other that way? If we are the same to everyone else, then why do we treat different Americans so horribly? Instead of dividing people based on their differences, why don't we accept and appreciate them? I am a black Christian Southern woman and my life and experiences are just as valid as a Pakistani Muslim man or as a white homosexual male or as a Chinese woman or as anybody else. We shouldn't discredit the experiences of others because it hasn't happened to us. We need to listen to people that are different. We need to accept that differences are beautiful and a part of human nature. We need to provide for and protect our fellow people of the US and make sure that they have basic human needs. We have to do better for ourselves and our country. That is the only way the Divided States will truly be united and diverse.