Not For Sale

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
-Edmund Burke

Identity. Countries, cities, generations, races, schools, businesses, ages, genders, presidents, individuals all have identities. Some parts of an identity are assigned, some parts are assumed, and some parts are fought for, but all three create for us an identity. For centuries people have fought for their identity, even before they had one. America fought for its own identity separate from Britain much like a teenager fights for their identity apart from their parents. My generation, my parents' generation, and my grandparents' generation all have different identities. Make us all the same age, give us the same clothes, put us in a room together and you'll still be able to tell us apart from the choices we make to the way we spend our money. Identity. I wonder what identity the human race has. We're born into an existing one. What have we accepted as part of our identity? Is there anything we've rejected? Is there anything we fight to lose? To gain?

27 million people of our living human race are currently enslaved around the world. Atlanta, the city in which I was born, happens to hold the highest amount of human sex trafficking in the United States of America, aka the "land of the free." As an Atlantan, that's not an identity I want to have. For some reason, it's easy to accept shortcomings as part of an identity. But there's a funny thing about identity, it can be changed. It can be fought for. Just ask America or Saul. If who you are isn't who you want to be, then do something.

I am not naturally outgoing, but sometimes I must fight to be. I am not naturally exceptionally musical, but because of my passion for it, I must fight to be (fight being the key word). The human race is not free, but we must fight to be.

When you see 12-17 year olds selling themselves downtown on a corner, they aren't prostitutes, they're slaves.
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