it gets better, but don't wait!

i know this is late.
it saddens me that there has been a surge in teen suicides due to lgbt harassment. (EDIT: as julia so wonderfully pointed out to me (thanks, btw), it's just more media coverage. but it still doesn't change the fact that there is hatred.) when will america learn that we are all people, and no one should be discriminated because of anything? it seems that every group that comes to america (besides the first settlers) experienced a time of prejudice. the quakers, the native americans, the african-americans, the italian immigrants, dutch immigrants, chinese immigrants, japanese immigrants have all done their time. but honestly, how needed is this? must we really be a nation that has a "filter" to be american? now, muslims and the homosexual population are being discriminated against. how can this be fair, in the land of the free? where all people have certain unalienable rights?

america is supposed to be freedom. the first amendment declares this be so. freedom of speech. freedom of religion. freedom of the press. freedom to petition. the list goes on. america was viewed before as a land of freedom, where dreams could be freely pursued. is america still this today? or are we viewed as bigots who think nothing of ourselves, and fear everything/everyone different from ourselves? i urge all of you to ask yourselves this and consider it.

i, for one, declare that i am guilty of discrimination--but i do not wish to be so any longer. if you are with me in this effort, please leave me a comment. together, we as a class can change the way our school thinks... and maybe the way the nation thinks. and then maybe, just maybe, the world.