#socialshit

Dear human. I don't care about the way you look on the outside. I don't care if people tell you the colour of your skin matters. I don't care if you are black or white or brown or any shade the world has to offer us. You are a gift and I am so grateful to share this world with you. I don't care about the prayers in your heart, no matter if they go to God, Allah, Jehowa, Shiva, Thor, the universe or no one (or anybody else that you chose). You are valuable and you are amazing. In this world, where along with us one morning, fear, anger, hate and sadness awoke with new found strength, I want to give you one important bit of information. And I don't care, if this is 'useless' or whatever you may call it, it is what I can give you. I love you. Human I love you. I love you for your laugh. For your compassion. For your music, your pictures and your poems. For your kindness to strangers and your eagerness to help. For your protectiveness of those close to you. For your curiosity. And for an abundance of all your qualities. But I also love you for your mistakes. For the fight in you. For your anger, your fear, and your sadness. And for your ability to see and try to correct your wrongdoings. I love you. And in this hectic world where we see the worst, let's start a revolution. A revolution without guns. Without pamphlets. Without shouting. A revolution that consists of one sentence that is invaluable in our corporate world. I love you.

so today this guy came to my school to talk about his experience with drugs, you know all that scare tactics bullshit. and he was talking about how he got into all this “trouble” with the cops. so when he finished with his story some kid asked “how has your legal trouble/criminal record affected your job prospects” and you know what he said? he said he’d never been arrested. he’d had stuff confiscated, taken breathalyzers, but he’d never been arrested. Now apparently he’d only done pot, k2 and salvia, along with some prescription pills. But what really struck me is that he’d never, not once, gotten arrested, he didn’t have a criminal record, hadn’t spent a day in jail, nothing. this is  a prime example of white privilege that is kinda shocking. that kid would have a rap sheet a mile long if he was black, but because he was some white kid from the Woodlands (rich neighborhood near Houston TX), his choices aren’t going to affect the rest of his life at all.