In Response To Charlottesville
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In Response To Charlottesville

It's not right.

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In Response To Charlottesville
Myself

It's not right that this was ever able to happen.

And a broken system will let it happen again.

It's not right that black children have to walk past flags and statues commemorating the very people who swore to enslave their ancestors by fire and blood.

They cry heritage at a statue of Robert E. Lee? Theirs was taken away from them by the very people who cry about such a thing.

It's not right that the perpetrators can cry "freedom of speech!", when they hide behind that right to take away the rights of others.

The moment you strive to take those rights away, is the moment you don't deserve yours anymore. When you align yourself with racial killers and white supremacists, you forego any sympathy.

It's not right to listen to panicked shouts of "removing history", despite no one caring quite as much when bulldozers and tear gas tore across sacred Native American land last year.

It's never been a fear of preserving history. It's a fear of losing power

It's not right to see victims of systematic prejudices get hit with claims of overreaction, because those people have never had to live a day in those shoes.

To acknowledge the truth is to destroy the illusion.

It's not right that political correctness is seen as a censorship, because some people can't imagine their lives without racist, homophobic, transphobic, and sexist slurs.

If that's the case, you truly are a sad human being.

It's not right that there is even a defense - least ways from the man sworn in to protect the American people - for those who have literally aligned themselves with Nazi and Ku Klux Klan ideology.

To hell with that. There is no defense. Nor will there ever be.

It's not right that the multicultural children will have to live through the atrocities and hatred that were promised never to happen again. They'll look up at the tv and say "But they told us that was all over?".

They lied. The hateful have only bred their hate. They have ingrained this thinking into their children, dooming them to a cycle of poison.

It's not right to be begged to try peace and compassion with a group that has no intention whatsoever of showing minority groups that peace and compassion.

They made their choice. Everything that has to do with this, came from them

So take a stand. There are two sides, love and hate, and only one can win.

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