Thursday, April 25, 2013
The Loner Ranger or your own stranger?
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven was a very good story. It is one of my absolute favorites that we have read. The struggle the Lone Ranger undergoes, many people have to face everyday. Discrimination, segregation, stereotyping are all apart of everyday life. This hits close to home for me. I am the child of an amazing gay couple. I see discrimination and stereotyping everyday. To add on top of that, my dads are also an interracial couple, like the main character in the story. A small factor that still blows my mind that people these days are still not okay with. Seeing people stare at them in public drives me crazy, and most of the time they are not even touching each other in any way, shape or form. Growing up with parents who are afraid that their children will be ridiculed or not have any friends is heart breaking. Thinking that people have to deal with so much hatred that is even worse than what they feared. To my parent's surprise we have not had a problem yet that was not a minuscule issue that could be quickly resolved. People group gays together as if they are a cult. I swear to you I am not, nor have I ever been homosexual. Neither is my 15 year old sister. The difficulties that gay couples have to go through remind me of the cop stopping the Lone Ranger; there was no reason that cop needed to stop him. He was just judged upon his race. That is not fair, the times are changing people! QUIT JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER!! There are worse issues in this world than to be worried about what race, orientation, gender, or any other stupid discriminatory reason people come up with to torment someone with.
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