In society, I witness oppression in multiple ways. For starters, I'm African American, well black, in a world where my people who are my color are being killed and not treated as equal as the more dominant race. I'm also a female in a society where we have to fight for gender equality because females aren't as ferior amd empowered as we should be. The LGBTQ community, foreigners, the blind or handicap, ALL OPPRESSORS plus many others! People don't think about how much we have to fight for things that should be given more easily.
As a black woman I want the same positive opportunities as a white woman or even a black male. It doesn't feel good knowing that, yes, there are ways to suceed but they have limits and there are so many ways for the system to stop you. From the limits on getting my education, to the difficulties to obtain scholarships to pay for this EXPENSIVE education to work in a world who appears to want me to fail and not even give me a job. A world where you need education to get a job and experience to get the job you want so you got to start from the bottom unless you network and those people make offers. I mean I'm black and I'm a woman, two minorities where people think of me as weak minded and not good enough even if I am.
We're in a society where people don't accept you for who you are, they judge you. They judge you for who you are, who you want to be, and what they think we should be considered. People don't care about our worth being equal to theirs. They don't care about me being successful because the higher people in society want me to be one of the many, poor black families depending on their government. I say their government because in reality, we, as blacks, don't get true support we get empathetic handouts that they're waiting to take. You know when you get that letter in the mail telling you their taking said benefit away because you make "too much money". But in reality you were just scraping to make rent and pay utilities last month. Hell, they took my medicaid because I turned 19 when they originally told me I could keep it through college. The only way possible for me to get it back is if I'm blind, disabled, or pregnant. Like what? Why do I have to be this way to have insurance? How is this helping me?
So when you get the courage to talk about someone because their gay and judge their lifestyle when we're getting judged and watched everyday for just being black; look in the mirror. Realize that the hate never stopped, the racisim never stopped, and to them we'll never be equal to them. Instead of blaming each other and coming up with excuses on why you won't support your race, think again.
As black people we need to stick together. Have you paid attention to the killings that have been happening? And we're getting angry but don't act blind, it's been around. As much as we fight, I've kind of realized that we may not win. It's the same song in a different year. This hate towards our race is from years of damage and it'll take years to make it sane but I guess we got to keep fighting. But they want us to fight negatively and behave like the many nicknames our race has been given... We have to prove them wrong. We can't keep hiding and being afraid to live because we're afraid to die.
