Graduation Speech: If We Were America

Sadly, America today is not what we had hoped for what we want our future to be. More deaths and destructive incidents have occurred over race. No one is able to walk the streets safely without being questioned or afraid for their lives. The people of color live in fear each and every day of their lives because of the color of their skin. There is no one that we are able to trust our lives, justice, and freedom with. Whereas white people have nothing to fear because they have never felt this way before and will never face this barrier the vast majority of America has faced. They have someone they can trust, be protected by, and live their full rights in having freedom. In return minorities have received this delusion of the ever promised freedom for which we originally came for. America is this way because of how we are brought up in the world. It begins with our family and how they perceive race then it is taught to us
I hope that you will not have to cower in fear when you walk the streets alone or are in a sea of unknown citizens. I hope that your future will not be as challenging as ours or heart breaking to watch as so many unfortunate events occur, but will witness the more exciting things in America. That you will see America at its finest with hand in hand helping anyone in need as much as they possibly could. Realize that race is just a fabrication of one’s perspective and that those who believe in it do not understand you. Teach them to comprehend America’s history and learn from our past. Do not do what past generations have continuously done in teaching what was told the right way, but to show your generation what exactly is the right way and that is that we as Americans are the same regardless of what color skin we have. To the next generation I hope that when your time comes and we have all come to understand our history and what society has done to us, that America will be