You wanna know what\u2019s unfair? How we are privileged, neglected, praised and disrespected all at the same time. It\u2019s crazy how there are problems all around us but we are happy and comfortable because it doesn\u2019t affect us. There is a child starving to death right now somewhere but we don\u2019t care\u2026 because it\u2019s not us. Some people are a penny away from being broke and homeless but we don\u2019t care because we can go home to a fridge full of food. Our parents could be one misfortune away from losing their mind and spiraling into depression. It\u2019s also sad how a lot of us are boujee\u2026 on a budget though. Why is our pride so big that we can for once ask for help or let people know something is wrong. But we don\u2019t care because we are to content with our lives to do so. We place the blame on everyone but who it\u2019s supposed to be on. Some of us think we are so perfect but everyone sees our flaws. What\u2019s also unfair is, of course, white privilege and no I\u2019m not saying that white people really think they\u2019re better than black people\/the rest of us but I feel the need to speak on this. A young man can\u2019t get a job because his name is De\u2019Andre or a girl can\u2019t even get a second look at her application because her name is Shaniya, nope too ghetto. But (don\u2019t take offense to this) a man named Chris or a girl named Ashley at least get a chance to show why they deserve a job over the other thousand applicants. There\u2019s another type of privilege of course, how could I forget this one: money. It\u2019s a shame how far money could get you over hard work, dedication, or even plain talent. There\u2019s so much wrong with people, with the world and how it works. The United States has a president who, of course, can\u2019t have a simple conversation or meeting without doing\/saying something racist, immature, or downright embarrassing. It\u2019s sad that a white man can kill his family and get 5 years in lockup with no parole versus a black man selling drugs who gets a double or even triple that, but why? He doesn\u2019t deserve that but no don\u2019t believe I\u2019m sticking up for black people because I have the same skin color. No I definitely admit us black people do dumb stuff, yes a few of us messed it up for the rest. It\u2019s funny because I know for a fact that every black girl is not ghetto, loud and irritating and that every black man doesn\u2019t sell dope and carry a gun around. But also, every white girl isn\u2019t proper and intelligent and preppy, I can definitely testify on that. I\u2019m sorry but I\u2019m tired of this. It\u2019s sad how some people are so stupid. It\u2019s not about black and white anymore\u2026 it\u2019s about plain stupidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
a reflection by [alexis] <\/p>\n
You wanna know what\u2019s unfair? How we are privileged, neglected, praised and disrespected all at the same time. It\u2019s crazy how there are problems all around us but we are happy and comfortable because it doesn\u2019t affect us. There is a child starving to death right now somewhere but we don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}