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America: The Real Problem

A Rant About The Discrimination In Our World

By Astrid NovakPublished 6 years ago 4 min read
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In today's society, we are facing multiple dilemmas. Terrorists roam the busy streets of every country, every continent, and every city filled with innocent faces. Hate fills the rooms and hallways in which we walk down, our own minds overwhelmed by our own internal quandary to stop and reassure the one sitting in the corner with eyes burning into their skull because of their skin tone, the way they are dressed, or the hand they are clutching which just happens to be of their own gender. Bullies torment our children in places that should only be filled with laughter and infinite knowledge, contaminating them into places of fear and anxiety. In each one of these predicaments lies one common knowledge as one reason for these evil doings: Prejudice.

Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. This predetermined outlook comes in many forms.

Women were seen as nothing more than objects, only there to raise the children and clean the house, until the nineteenth amendment was ratified to the United States Constitution in 1920, finally allowing them to vote and hold jobs. Even now, almost one hundred years later, women still are paid less than men, even if it is thinning in difference. For the same job, women are sometimes discriminated against men still. In foreign countries, females are still seen as they were in the days of old, perhaps even less than that. Despite this, women are not innocent of perceiving men as farther from the truth of what they are, either. All men are seen by most women as simply perverted beings.

The LGBTQ+ community just recently gained rights for marriage in America as of June 2015. Some religious people have used terrible, derogatory words against fellow human beings in this community, attempting to disassemble the army of allies and LGBTQ+ identifying citizens as they fight for their human rights, equality, and happiness. The battle still goes on today as people resist against laws that have been made, but these laws have yet to put a damper on this seemingly endless crusade. In August of 2017, President Donald Trump passed a law stating that transgender troops will be banned from the American military. States including Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Nevada, North and South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia are all known to have bans against transgender citizens being allowed to use the bathrooms of their gender identities. There is also a law passed that allows employers or employees of an establishment to refuse service to a "gay person." Perhaps one day, Congress will realize how terrible the decisions they have made are, and they might revoke the bills and laws. Until then, the resistance goes on.

People of color have been looked down on for years and years and years. Being forced into slavery was a horrible time for not just America but for all of the human civilization, and we as a whole have moved past it. Nevertheless, there are still hate crimes to this day. Police brutality is one major issue. Racial slurs are still spewed at civilians as they pass on shared roadsides and even over screens. Segregation was a nightmare in American history in the 1900s until 1964, when it was outlawed.

Illegal immigrants fought long and hard to get into a safer place from the more than harsh living from which they've escaped. This is not just a problem in America, of course, but in this case, it will be the main focus.

People seem to forget when fighting to remove them that once we, too, were immigrants to this land. We broke into the land of which Native Americans made their homes first. We did not ask permission, nor did we ask before we started exploring their territory. Now, this is not to say that illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay because of this reason. However, we should not get rid of something that brings no harm to you. President Trump made a promise to build a wall around America so that illegal newcomers could not get into our country. I, along with many others, do not agree with this notion. First, too many taxpayer dollars go toward something that can be dismantled in seconds. Second, I am a strong believer in second chances. According to the Constitution written by our Founding Fathers, everyone is given the right to a fair trial. If someone is not causing any trouble, why put them out? Give each newcomer a fair, unbiased trial, asking them questions such as why and when they came to America and what they have been doing since then. Let the judge and other higher powers decide what to do.

In conclusion, there is no room in the world, much less in America, for prejudice and hate. With all the blood we've shed over all this time, we should band together to make the world a better place.

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Astrid Novak

I'm just a girl in a sea of people trying to make her voice heard.

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