After learning about the Pulse Night Club Massacre and attempted massacre at the gay pride parade, it made me wonder if the up coming election would produce the right president that would actually bring about real change. The massacre included 50 fatalities and 53 people injured and is credited as the hugest massacre the United States has had since September 11.
It seems as though the final two are Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton and personally I'm not sure about either one of them tending to the real issue and that is hate. I don't want to talk about politics because it's all political- people saying anything to gain the popular vote because that is what it's all about for them. This is the first election that has my full attention and so far I have noticed contradictory and faulty statements and back tracks on prior statements made before either of them decided to run.
I have witnessed Donald Trump try to gain the vote of a bunch of radicals by speaking down and bringing hate on other "radicals." I call Trump supporters radicals because it just seems as though they hate certain kinds of people and are rowdy-- just a personal opinion. On the cover of a magazine the other day, there was a Trump supporter that stated something along the lines of just because he is in that party. I don't remember the caption verbatim, but it is somewhere along the lines of "I'm with the racist" or "I support racism." Trump wants to build walls and keep people from gaining entry into America because of their religious beliefs and ethnic background. There is evil in every religion and every race, therefore standing on a platform that shames and castrates Muslims isn't really helpful. The Sandy Hook, Colorado Theater and Charleston church shooters weren't radical Islam terrorists and neither are the police officers that have wrongly shot and killed the unarmed and children.
My point is that, whether the recent massacre was done by a Muslim or not, the common denominator is hate for a particular group of people. Preaching against a particular group of people is no different from the leaders of radical Islamic terrorists preaching against Americans. It all sparks hate. Along with education, national security, gun laws and all those other issues, loving your neighbor also needs to be addressed. Even if something like that seems too fairytale and not so realistic that people can love one another, teaching hate doesn't make things any better. "Making America great again" takes us back to the America that wasn't that great in the first place. America was built on immigrants where one group of people felt like they were better and it set a precedent for other groups of people. One race is no better than the other, no religion is better than the other, one way of loving is no better than the other and no class of people is better than any other.
Hilary Clinton released a statement saying that weapons of war shouldn't be on the streets and I agree, but one's intent to kill isn't being driven by weapons. I concur that if Omar Mateen, the Pulse Night club shooter, wouldn't have had access to the weapon, perhaps the massacre wouldn't have occurred. I personally believe that he would have found another way to do it. Hate was ingrained in Mr. Mateen as witnesses, including his wife and former coworker, reported. He felt killing would be the best solution for his unknown issues. Let's stop this way of thinking. As Americans, we have so much influence on other societies; we should set about a change and start to be the bigger people.
Put an end to hate. Being African American, Asian, Latino, Caucasian or any other race is not a fault. A person being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual has no affect on the next person’s, and neither does one's spiritual and religious beliefs. We as a nation have to remember and apply that old tenet “Love thy neighbor” to our daily lives. Get rid of the supreme attitudes and let's really make America Better if not Great!
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