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Taking two steps back

Community exlclusion

By Tabitha HinkleyPublished about 10 hours ago 3 min read

All races are not segregated in society as they used to be, but in our minds we still segregate. We make inclusions in the comments that we make and how we treat people in general. We still find ways to segregate in all the little thoughts that we think. Many years ago whites were slaves to pirates. In the America’s in the early year’s whites were slaves because they were brought in from other countries. Native American’s were slaves in United States and even shipped off to many other countries away from their families and all they had known. Women and men have become slaves at one point or another for sexual torture or to just be excluding in general. Blacks were enslaved for many years in the United States, Spanish America, Brazil, and Cuba usually the blacks that were originated from Angola, Nigeria, and Congo. LGBTQ people were enslaved for their self-beliefs in the United States, Hitler origins, and all throughout our timelines. Modern times there is slavery usually of sexual nature that are still going on of all races, beliefs, sex, and just coloring of skin in general.

Now even when not enslaved people segregate others by not including them in their communities. They segregate by demanding retribution for their ancestors when now they live a plush life and refuse to include others of different races, beliefs, sex, and skin color in general. They will be saying that they deserve money for what their ancestors went through without wanting to try to make something of themselves, and all the while excluding everyone else. When they are excluding everyone else, they are making the same choices that their ancestors suffered by. They are also biting the hand that is feeding their hatred in the process. Different people use terms that would be offensive if used by others outside of their community, but they allow everyone inside their community to use it with ease as a term of love.

These communities are teaching future generations that it is ok to exclude others that do not have the same skin color, the same belief, the same race, or the same sex. Children that should be the generation to change it all and make everyone equal are being poisoned and oppressed. Some examples are stating that the man should be out in the community working while the women should be in the house cooking, cleaning, and tending to the children. A community using the word Niger by their community while going as far as killing someone (this is only the harshest of punishments for saying it) of a different community for saying the same term. Expecting the older community to retire to a home even when they are capable of taking care of themselves. All the different communities demanding free money and extra benefits for what their ancestors went through, not acknowledging that all races, colors, sexes, and those of different beliefs have now had to go through the same at one point in history or another. Communities expecting the upper hand while all other communities are now struggling.

Communities have struggled, been enslaved, and beaten down throughout all of history within all the different countries and they are instilling enslavement in their children instead of teaching them to think differently. We are only changing our thoughts due to those that come around and force us to have to consider if what we are thinking and doing is wrong. We are not willingly letting go to understand other communities and how they are now and not how their ancestors were in the past. Communities are still choosing to exclude others and claim that they know what their ancestors have gone through because it runs through their blood. The communities are still allowing poison to seep into the threads of their world and the bloodline of their children.

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About the Creator

Tabitha Hinkley

I love poetry. I'm doing an autobiograpHy and a series. I love hiking and being in nature, love swimming with my 3 dogs, and being in the mountains, art, into fashion and love cooking. I work at a hospital as a CNA.

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