Animosity is around us (final)

Dear Mr.President,

I come as a voter, a citizen, and as a friend to congratulate you upon your success. Presidency is not an easy job or position to handle, but it sure does bring satisfaction. Seeing a large crowd appreciate your works is its own reward. The Mr. President I have also sent you this letter to advise you that there is great work to be done. Of course you already know this. Among the most obvious problems that this Nation faces is---animosity or for a better term hatred between other people.

One might say that society today is at its zenith. I tell you otherwise, because it can be different and better and thus more comfortable to its people. The states of the United States are not as they seem to be; they are not as they should be because animosity has not been extinguished since it first started, perhaps when the first Europeans arrived here. Animosity may not be expressed physically, but a few words can hit one harder than a bullet hits its target. For this reason change is needed. Countless times I have heard the words: Mexican, black, nigger, cocolo, and many other slang words that are used to define one by simply race, color and not as an individual person. Animosity is the big issue that also prevents equality in some sense. One that demonstrates animosity and hate for one race might not show it for another, thus violating equality. Furthermore, the lack of equality will prevent or stop any community in the process of becoming a true community. A true community is a community in which neighborly love exist. What is neighborly love? It is the essence that joins two or more races or types of people together.

Animosity does not stop there. In its most powerful form it can consume a crowd and create mass protests, murder and other malevolent actions. In its weaker form it can disturb a whole town. Animosity can set a society apart and prevent them from being the true community that they should be. Hate by color, and race is not the way to go, because it causes inequality. This may also be the reason why prideful people often consider themselves better than the person next to them. This ultimately has been perhaps the biggest reason why groups like the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) ever existed. But it does not stop here. One out of five times that I look to my local park I see the new Klu Klux Klans spreading their terror. The new KKKs are known as the crips, the bloods, and the Latin kings as well as many other minor nationalistic groups. This type of unity is deleterious from my point of view. Never have I seen a group defined by one culture and one intention (terror and power) actually be helpful to uniting and creating inner peace in society. It is hard to believe that one walking through a neighborhood would be received with a malevolent gaze.

This has to be stopped Mr. President. It is hard to believe that one walking through a neighborhood would be received with a malevolent gaze. At night, walking home or another place must be done as quickly as possible and often it requires running. Why running you may ask? Because at sundown these gang members are no longer scared to reveal their faces. With them on the street it is hard to walk with courage around where I live, in Tinton Avenue, Bronx New York. In fact, not too long ago I was walking home with a few friends (thank God) and I was challenged by a group of teens dressed in all black. They called me a “white boy,” but I was not white so they mistakenly confused me because of my color. I apologized and advised them that my friends and I did not want any problems. Truly our lives that night were in their hands, and of course God’s hands. Those trouble makers, as I said, before confronted my friends and I only because I was light skinned. The message here is clear. By using the words “white boy” this gang was looking at me as a color and not as a person. Without a doubt I was not the only person that received this way of treatment from them.

If this continues, there will be more animosity dwelling around us citizens. Mr. President, with all due respect, I believe that to you, this may be totally obscure, for you are always in the presence of body guards. This type of hate will not stop its self and if it is not solved it will continue it’s proliferate routes. Where will it spread might you ask? Well to the same people that voted and might not have voted for you. It will also spread to many young children that are only exposed to the hate that is imminent in their neighborhoods, households, and even in school. Imagine a society where little kids are saying bad words to each other and are calling each other by names like “nigga.” Soon enough the connotation of all those inappropriate ways to call a person will not be considered inappropriate in all the states. Children, teens, and even adults will one day forget what these words truly symbolize. Unfortunately this is already happening as we speak. Though it might be long overdue this situation must be obliterated now.

Solving this may be the most difficult conundrum that man may ever face because not only does it require work, it also requires cooperation. One may argue that it may be late for this to be solved but it is never too late for good. I suggest that the main focus of efforts should be guided to the hearts of hate or in other words---its source. The sources in my opinion are schools and the neighborhood themselves. What should be done to the schools you may ask? The truth must be introduced. It should be declared that calling a person by a racist or racial name is a bad deed and hurts people. This truth must be given by specialized people like affiliate consultants such as Tanya Odom. People like Tanya Odom are really influential when it comes to solving community problems. Consultants like her are trained to listen, understand, and to provide comfort to all in need of it. Then community centers should be introduced, at least one per neighborhood. The consultants traveling to schools are meant to target growing children. The community centers are meant to target older people such as teens and even the elderly as well as adults.

I tell you again Mr. President, the job will be tough but it is possible. You should know considering the fact that you are the President, the leader of the United States. Only when the United States is liberated from the grasp of hatred will communities like yours and mine ever be harmonious and serene.