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Did you ever notice that our society is catered to certain people? Okay, so you may not agree with me on this one, but here we go...

Our society is built for white, upper middle class able-bodied cis-gendered heterosexual people with an average IQ. You could go deeper into this statement and realize that perhaps only 0.02% of the people in America are built this way -- probably less. I'm not good at guesstimating. 

It's hard to think about this. I mean... I'm white. I've never faced racism in my life. People don't follow me around a store because they think that I'm going to steal. They don't harass me because of my religion. No one has ever picked on me because of my sexuality. It's... if you think about the people that are facing these situations on a daily basis, it allows you to view the building of society and the way that it works differently.

I'm not saying things are going to change. They aren't. We are built to accommodate certain types of people in our society. 

I just... When you were a kid and it was Fathers Day or Mothers Day, did you ever ask why there wasn't a Kids Day?  I asked my mom once and she said, "Well, every day is kids day." You cannot complain about their being too many television shows with gay people or black people or Muslim people. Those people look for representation. You cannot let people think that they are the only ones. What you have to know is that there are all kinds of people. There are brown people that go to school with you. People in school with you whose family income is at poverty level. You have stood behind someone in the line at Chick-Fil-A who probably suffered from a mental illness. You will meet transgendered people. You already know gay people. We cannot hide the fact that America is not made up of the majority, but if we didn't have the minorities, we wouldn't have mathematics, classical music, or medicine.

I don't know what I'm trying to get across to you. I don't always agree with the way the world works or with the people around me. I was taught to love people. The Lord tells me to love people, to show them compassion as He did. I hope that I do that. I hope you do too. 

catch you later,

Karleigh

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. //  Micah 6:8 NIV