Advocating for societal change can be very tiring, to be realistic. It is indeed a very fulfilling act -- to fight for something that is bigger than yourself, and to translate your anger into action and change. There are so many things happening in the world today that are sometimes unbelievably disheartening. If you pile one problem on top of another, we would have a mountain taller than Everest, towering over the little people who have suffered for centuries.
The way our society functions has honestly never changed. We have made little steps towards improvement, but in reality it is more of a distraction rather than improvement -- a distraction from what is really going on. It allows for hegemonic ideologies to sneakily run our lives and pull us under oppression, yet we still come to wonder why we continue to suffer after all these years.
Let me be more specific. Historically speaking, underprivileged communities have always remained in the same categories: non-white, non-male, and poor/working class. It is not limited to these three categories, however, these three can also play into different intersections and subcategories that ultimately, make these people even more diverse, and unique. Our world hates those words: diverse and unique. Holders of power -- the white, rich, and male individuals -- have implemented a system that have allowed them to stay above all others, despite the progress minority groups have been fighting for for too long. Way too long.
And here we are today. With a celebrity, cheeto-head president who has made it his very goal to control this country even more cruelly, and inconsiderate, of the growing population of fighters and dreamers who come from different backgrounds yet still sacrifice to make contributions to this country. The clown we have reigned supreme, has only been in office for a few months, but managed to implement executive orders, laws and policies that directly attack people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and so forth!
That's why I say, there is a mountain of problems. We are trying to crawl to the top, to break this mountain in half, but the big white man still keeps building the mountain higher.
It is a tiring climb.
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