Dear Next Generation

I’m sorry we failed you. I’m sorry that you won’t have leaders to look to the same way I had leaders to look to growing up. I’m sorry that you guys must live in here fear of losing your families, friends and anyone who has had an impacted on your life. I’m sorry that you guys won’t be able to speak what you believe to be true because those who are in control are going to try and control the words that we try to inform other people about the world. I’m sorry that we live in a world that people won’t welcome you for who you are on the inside or who you are on the outside. I'm sorry that you won't have a role model to look up to on how to treat other people from around the world and even from the inside of the world. I'm sorry that you don't have adults in your life that won't be role models to you because they are to busy doing what other people are telling them and not looking out for you because the money talks louder then our voices do at times. I hope that you stand strong where the generations before you have failed, I hope that you guys speak up and stand strong where the rest of us have failed and spoken with words of hate. I hope that you see a bully who takes control and leadership and a nation in favor from them and their friends, I hope you don't let them get in control and if a person is saying harmful and nasty things about other people that you don't back down and let that person roll over you and other people because they don't see you as a human or even as good enough person to be seen with them. I hope that one day you can wake up knowing that your family and friends will always be there for you and that you can be there for them. That you won't be seen as a number or a monster, but as the next leaders of the world who will do better then the past generations, that when you see a black man walking down the street you wave hello instead of running away in fear because he could hurt you, that when you see two women kissing you don't force them to change who they are because it hurts you, and that if you see a woman working hard to break the glass ceiling that was build by the men before us, that you won't believe that you have the right to grab her p*ssy because you believe she wants it and because you have the right to get away with it. I pray for you guys that you can see where we failed and you learn from us and where we didn't fly, you guys soar. I hope that you guys bring peace and know that you don't have the right to treat anyone the way that our leaders treat us. That you are just as important as you were from the inside of the womb. Be Strong, Be Kind and most of all break down those walls that we have put up to keep everyone apart.

Love, The Generation Before You