The current state of the U.S. right now makes me wish I actually did kill myself when I was in high school. I can not believe that a group of people could so public abuse their powers, and sacrifice those they are meant to protect. Progress is not being made. The country is going backwards: limiting its citizens' freedom, incarcerating and killing black citizens for their skin color, diving the classes, and pumping propaganda and lies into the minds of their citizens. This country has never been good for non-white cis males, not once - the oppression the white cis males inflicted on all other citizens has been present from the day white men came and stole the land from the Native Americans. However this country was making progress, slowly, but progress none the less and slow progress is better than no progress. I was raised to believe that all American citizens had complete freedom, and that no one race was better than any other race. As I grew up I learned of the oppression of the past, but was able to shrug it off as "That was in the past. Things are fine now." But as I grew older still, I have seen that outdated, to say the least, views of the men in power in this country have remained unchanged. Their views on people who are in any way different from them have not changed, their methods of oppression have. We as non-white cis male citizens deserve every right and freedom white cis males have given themselves. We are not "over-reacting", we are not "ungrateful" and we are not "irrational". We are tired, and we are angry but we will not stop. We will resist. We will protest. We will impeach. We will vote those who have shown how little they care about us, out of office. We will not stop fighting for our freedom.
