Future Generations

Headlines flash through the TV screen.

Immigration laws passed separating families

Families that came here for a better future for their children

So they can have a better future than what they had

You look Hispanic?

Funny how red white and blue means freedom except when it flashes behind you

 

More headlines

20 children dead due to gun violence

Freedom to bare arms is in our second amendment

But what happens when 20 children are affected by that right?

20 children not even 10 years old

20 children that won't go home and hug their parents

20 children that will never grow up

20 children that had their whole life ahead of them

Only a question is left: is the right to bare arms really a right?

 

We interrupt this daily broadcast to bring you details on drug cartels of Mexico and America.

Malicious narcos roam Mexican territory

People live in fear

Fearing their children will be kidnapped in a matter of seconds

What about the government?

 

The government won't help you; they're too busy helping cartels

Don't waste your breath, you could end up dead.

What I see now, it affects you it affect me and it affects our future generations

The eye will always see color

But you have a choice: to let it feel you with hatred or with love

And for the people that are not "Anglo Saxon"

Embrace your heritage

Embrace who you are

Embrace where you come from

Surpass the stupid stereotypes that hold you back.

 

I hope our future generations will be able to go to a school and not worry someone will gun them down

For people to be able to walk into a school, a movie theater or even a store and feel safe

 

I hope our future generation won't be run by drug cartels

That we can travel to our homeland and trust people

That we'll be able to visit our abuelas and abuelos, tias y tios and not fear of being kidnapped

 

Yes our future is struggling

But together everyone

Whites, Blacks, Mexican, Russian, Cuban, etc

We have a chance

We have faith

We have hope

That in the future your children and my children won't be affected by the world of corruption.

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