#hispaniclivesmatter

I can’t believe I have to use rdr as a way to make a message, but if it works, so be it. 

But let’s put it this way, we all love Red Dead Redemption and other media. What if this was Charles Smith? Or Lenny Summers? Or Eagle Files? Tilly Jackson? Javier Escuella?  If you think that the Van der Linde gang would stand by and approve of this shit, you’re wrong. In a modern Au and obviously canon - they would all be in grave danger. Lenny was literally almost lynched, and people like Tilly, Charles, and Lenny can’t even walk into TOWN without the threat of murder.  The minute the horse people meet Javier, they ask where he’s from to see if “they approve.” The Native Americans have had their land stolen and have had to suffer through genocidal acts. Africans were brought over in chains and were enslaved.  You bet your ass John Marston, Arthur Morgan, Sadie Adler, Sean MacGuire, Hosea Matthews, Miss Grimshaw, Abigail Marston,  and almost all 15+ of the other gang members would support their friends and family in whatever way they could. They would not approve of someone who doesn’t care. Hell, that’s what made the Van der Linde gang unique.

Would you all care then? You should. If you care about fictional characters and what they could/would go through if they were real - then you should care about this happening IRL. To not care would be hypocritical.

A person nor a group represents a whole race.

Every person of each race has the possibility to be racist.

Not all Whites are racist.

Not all Blacks are racist.

Not all American Indians are racist.

Not all Alaska Natives are racist.

Not all Asians are racist.

Not all African Americans are racist.

Not all Hispanics are racist.

Not all Latinos are racist.

Not all Native Hawaiians are racist.

Not all Pacific Islanders are racist.

But everyone has the possibility to be racist.

Even me.

Even you.

Racism is wrong, terribly wrong.

It doesn’t matter if it was meant as a joke.

It is still wrong.

And you should not do it.

It isn’t cool.

It isn’t nice.

It isn’t right.

It's wrong.

And if you realize it.

Every time you open your mouth.

Stop.

Think.

Is what you are going to say racist?

Come to a decision.

Think again for the second time.

And decide.

Is what you were going to say racist?

If so, don’t say it.

Keep it to yourself.

Racism is wrong.

Horribly wrong.

Yet people still say racist slurs.

But if you stop.

And you think.

Is what you were going to say racist?

You can help the world become a better and safer place for future generations.