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Dear Adam - by Adam Casarez

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    • Adam Casarez at Pima Community College
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    Dear Adam,

    As you look back to everything you learned about previously about human rights, ask yourself, “Why is this still a problem today?” You can tell yourself that human rights are the foundation for all humans to be treated with respect and dignity, and nobody, no matter the color, gender, religion, or race should be defined by. As we look to a more recent human rights issue, the Black Lives Matter movement, it truly is disheartening that to this day, we as humans are unable to treat each other like a human being.

    I wonder why people think they have superiority over other people, when you think about it truly, we are all going to die and after that we really will not matter to the face of the Earth, so why someone you should not and start being the person you are supposed to be. The issue of human rights can be seen as a global issue because every day people are being racially discriminated and injustice against, whether it be because of your skin color or even your beliefs. Something that I often think about is why there is a group called the LGBTQ+ community, there are all the same person and you and I, so why should we put them in a group, they are also what makes us united as a nation and they should also be treated with the same respect that they should.

    Mother Theresa once said, “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” And in this saying, we have yet to find our world peace that we so eagerly look for, it is something that many people pray and hope for would one day come to our world. This issue all begins with you, and you are the problem, but you are also the solution to it. So, Adam tell yourself, “How can I change the world? How can I prove to others that we are all created equally?” I think that once we start to love and support each other, not just those you know, but everyone else included, that is when I think that we can truly be at peace. Sometimes I will often think about being in other people’s shoes, you never know what other people are going through so why put them through more difficulties when you can be the one to help them make sure everything is okay. Everyone has the power and right to be a human being, not treated unfair and unjust, these rights were given to use at birth, and we should use them to show how each of us is unique and not the same.  As you write this letter to yourself, think about how you can change and help fight for human rights. Think about what you can change and what you cannot because it all begins with you.

    No one deserves to be treated less than the person next to you, and we all should be able to do things that we want to and not be held back, not even from ourselves. Everyone has the power to freely choose what they want and what they will become, and nobody should take that right from them.

    We can connect this issue all the way back to slavery because the African Americans were treated as things and not people, those who owned them did not give them any rights that they had and continued to have while they were slaves. Slavery had started sometime around 3500 BCE and to see it continue to this day, even as forms of human trafficking, we need find a solution because sometimes I wonder if we will ever see the day where everyone is seen as equally important.

    Something that I have witnessed in my own personal life that is a reason that I want to address this issue is seeing so many people who are begging on the side of streets or in front of stores because they are struggling. Most people think these types of people use the money they are given for drugs and alcohol, when reality is that many of these people genuinely need food and water to survive. We automatically assume they need it for their own personal use when it is a human right to have access to food and water. This letter to yourself should set a reminder that we should always help those who are in need because they are humans too and not just things that live off the side of the road, me must treat them with the same respect that they give to us.

    Please always give to those who are in need because you never know that it could be your family so it would be best to help everyone out as much as we can, then I feel like we will be in the right direction of equal human rights and a step closer to the world peace we all so hopefully want to achieve.

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