My first post for this blog is one dedicated to Harvey Milk. (Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected into public office.) I'm a few hours late, because the anniversary of his assassination was actually yesterday (November 27) but it's better late than never in my opinion. (Btw, my name is Annie and welcome to my blog.)
Music Video: What It's Like by Everlast
Despite how I'm feeling right now, I feel the need to post this. After all, this is the day a figure of hope was shot down 32 years ago. I post this video, because although Harvey Milk's biggest activism issue was LGBT, he also stood for everyone mentioned in this video.
There's a reason I get offended when people say certain things. I'm sorry some of you don't agree with me, but I'm on the same page as Harvey Milk was. When you target a group of people for being a bit different than you, I will get offended and I will speak my mind.
In an age where people of my generation are fighting for so many different causes, things become chaos, when what we are aiming for is peace and acceptance. It’s a very sad thing, in my eyes, that we seem to be getting exactly the opposite – segregation. I may sound like a crackpot hippie, and that's ok.
What I know is people of all different ethnicities, sexual orientations, social classes, disabilities, etc. are killing themselves because they are being discriminated against. Believe me, I know that if we stopped using all the words that offended people, there wouldn’t be many words left that we could use. But what we can do, is stop and think before saying something hurtful. Stop and think before you do something that may make someone sit up at night and make a pros and cons list of life.
You may think that since you’re only one person, what you say won’t affect a person to the point of suicide. But how do you know you’re the first person to remark negatively to that person, about who they are, or where they come from? Many, many people could have said these things before you. I say this about protesting and voting, and I will say it about this as well: never, for one instant, believe that just because you’re only one person, what you say or do doesn’t have an impact, because if everyone thought that, then nothing would get accomplished. Everything you ever say or do will always have an impact on someone, whether it be a negative or positive impact, large or small, it will be there, with someone.
So, tonight on the anniversary of Harvey Milk’s last day, remember that you make an impact with your words and actions… and remember that it’s not only LGBT people he supported and spoke for. It was everyone who has ever been discriminated against. I leave you with a quote (no matter how corny you may think the source is) by Albus Dumbledore:
“And though we may come from different places, and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one…”
Good night everyone,
AnnieMagus
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