#thedaywefoughtback

In a world...okay, I won’t start this entire blog off with that overused, cliche (since I have been able to type, I always wondered how to put the little squiggle above letters if the word/letter needed it...still am wondering...), dumb-ass saying that makes people (or maybe just me) GAG. AND NOT IN THE GOOD WAY (THANKS RUPAUL) 

Nay, I have come here, at 5:45 am on a sleepless night, to Tumblr to let someone have a voice; to let US have a voice. You see, I see myself as an extrovert, one that will jump at anything and anyone to do whatever I need to do to better myself, my life, my family and my community. But, how, I do ask, can someone a loud, outspoken and daring say the things that even I know I cannot say without getting pitchforked out of town (especially in the town I go to college in...) 

Again, I ask you to see this picture for itself, for I was on Facebook, looking at posts that my family has made and stumbled across one of my fellow friend’s post that was a shared video. The video was a parody of Dukes of Hazard, disrespectively named The PC (Political Correct) Dukes of Hazard. Now, while I find this immediately distasteful, I can be totally honest and say that there were parts that were so incredibly dumb that I laughed. But, ironically, the dumb parts were not like the parts of the original movie where you laughed because you just could not help it because these characters were the dumbest people you have ever seen, but this new level of dumb was very disturbing to me: It was funny because it was real. The video fought real stereotypes. It made valid points. Yet, some see this Political Correctness as an act of overreaching, that we, as society, should not mandate so much because EVERYONE IS A LITTLE RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/SEXIST (the list goes on, and on, and on...)

Thus, in a blaze of fury and lustful anger towards these people that put progressiveism on the back table (it is called “PROGRESSive” for a reason...!!!), I decided that the voice that I wished to say, the real words I wish I could unveil to the world with a simple stroke of the keyboard and a little force-touch (because it is a real thing) to my MacBook, to Facebook, would be better suited to be seen by the eyes of those like me. Those who cannot speak out for the lashing of their family(s), those who cannot lash out of anger for the disgusting nature of our country and society because of those who would physically harm us, for those that cannot simply speak, I say to you, through your voice, eyes and heart, We, today, start a new chapter in history: 

The day we fought back.