Abraham

As a first generation kid of immigrants, a lot has been on my mind lately. People that look just like my family have increasingly been painted as villains in this nation, people that just want to survive as much as anybody else, with hopes and dreams of a better life. That leave their home countries, trading family, friends, and culture for a foreign land surrounded by people that hate them. People that feed this nation, people that help house this nation, and nobody seems to be on the side of them anymore, anyone with real power has largely given up on humanizing them. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find all this depressing, it’s been almost crippling, but I know who my people are, their character, and values, and I’ll always fight for them no matter what, I know what the truth is and how America has always been built on the backs of exploited labor/people, the blood of immigrants runs through my veins.

Never forget, we’re all human, we all have hopes and dreams, my enemies aren’t human, they’re structures that pit us against each other, that pick our pockets and say it’s our neighbor that did it. Please remember, I’m human and so are you, structures can be broken and replaced. I could never replace you or me, please see me as human as I see you.