There's something... something that I've had bottled up. Inside me for so long. Wanting to, but scared to escape. It NEEDS to escape now. And nobody's stopping me. Not this time. Not this time. We've all seen the world. Ravaged, physically intact, but destroyed on the inside. People feeling less and being attacked over skin color. People being judged for what they believe in. People feeling guilty for loving who they love. It isn't right. I'm Catholic. And I'm also straight ally (I'm not entirely sure, but I may be questioning...). And I am SICK of people telling me I'm "homophobic" for my religion or a "bad Christian" because I want people to love who they love. It made me feel weak and guilty and like I didn't matter as a human because of what I believed in. Then... there is the ever-looming cloud that is racism. Black people being shot because they looked "suspicious". Asians being attacked and blamed for Covid-19 AND IT ALL BEING IGNORED BY SOCIETY. I've never experienced racism myself BUT OH BOY DO I KNOW ABOUT IT. I know it all too well. It breaks my mom's heart, it makes my dad upset. It makes me enraged, and several times I've thought of severely hurting myself because I'm part white and I FEEL GUILTY ABOUT THIS AND IT'S MIXED WITH UTTER RAGE BECAUSE I'M ALSO PART ASIAN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR DON'T DESERVE THIS. Nobody does. We see this at younger and younger ages. Kids, KIDS, are being exposed to the full force of the world and being told that they're being dramatic. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT SOCIETY? We are crumbling, slowly but surely, under the look of total freedom. IT. IS. NOT. FAIR. It made me mad. Enraged. I wanted, so badly, to fix the world, but I didn't know how. Until... I came to Scratch. This is a community. A community of kids like me. Kids who are angry and want to fix the world, and are starting here. Guys, we're going to inherit the world someday. Do you know how big that is? The entire world will be in OUR hands someday. WE are the next generation. The one that is handed the earth and told, "Look, kid. We messed everything up, real bad. You need to fix it. Everything." It's a daunting task! But we don't have to do it alone. Think of it this way: We are here. We are young. We are the most diverse and accepting generation yet. We want to change the world. AND WE HAVE THE POWER TO DO SO. It'll be in our hands someday! In fact, it IS in our hands. Right now. We. Are. The. Future. We can either stand here, watch as everything burns, and let the world crumble. Or we can DO something. That's the path lots of kids are taking. The path I'm taking. Even if you make a small ripple towards our goal, that's SOMETHING. We are now ONE RIPPLE CLOSER. YOUR ACTION MATTERS. Even now, as I'm writing this, I'm creating a ripple in these waters, steering our ship, just a little, towards what we are aiming for. You can create a just small ripple, or a ground-shaking wave. IT. MATTERS. We. Are. Here. We. Are. Angry. We. Can. Fix. The. World. Together. So... will you join us?
============================== I'm glad that this speech of mine has made so many people feel seen and loved. That's been my only goal for a while now. Thank you, all of you, for standing with me, with us, in this. -SnowiFox1 <3 ============================== Thank you to: ------------------------------------------- -@miallama01 -@MeowKitty1400 -@Will410 -@-K_B- ------------------------------------------- for remixing and spreading the message. ------------------------------------------- -@dalmatian31 -@22hauss ------------------------------------------- for proposing this to be featured.
