Dear Mizzou (and all other college campuses),
It saddens me that it's 2015 and we're still suffering from racism. 2015. It's 2015, and frankly, I'm embarrassed to be a human being. The purpose of being educated in history in school is to prevent the past from happening again, right? Wrong, because apparently it's not doing sh*t. It's 2015 and we're worried about what color skin we have? And discriminating against people based on that? I'm speechless. Instead of progressing towards peace, we have our own homegrown institutionalized terror. Forget fighting with other counties, we can't even get out own sh*t together. We can't even respect one another. We're on this planet for a very short time, so why take the time to judge someone based on their outer appearance?
Being a white female, I can't sit here and tell you that I've ever been in a situation where I've been victimized. But why? Because society told me that because I was born white, I'm supposed to be superior to another human being? How does that make any sense? Aren't we all humans that are supposed to have the same equal rights and opportunities?
What's baffling to me is that we're all people. Life is short, so instead of going out of your way to create negativity, why not just help one another. How can someone bring others down based on their skin color? Something that we were born with. Something that we cannot change Something that has no effect on what type of person they are. If you're going to judge someone, why don't you judge them upon their morals and the type of person they allude themselves to be? Discriminating only shows what type of person you are. So next time you're going to judge someone based on what pigment their skin alludes, think twice.
With that being said, the unity through the Mizzou campus during this time was inspiring, as was the response of other college campuses around the nation. There was a ripple of unity for the students of Mizzou. Our country is making strides, legalizing gay marriage and removing the Confederate flag, but more has to be done to promote unity and to disband this racial tension. If our generation doesn't speak up and and make an emphasis for some type of peace, unity, and demobilize the racial injustice, I can't see things getting any better any time soon.
