Dear Law Students

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I am . . .

Ridiculous

Sad

Mindless

Absurd

Horrified

Trivial

Vapid

Asinine

Privileged

I am many more negative terms I use to self-loathe and hate myself for beliefs that I do not hold, but ascribe to myself: I am a Social Justice Warrior.

Satire aside, views that today’s fringe far-left hold have infiltrated many millennials within the democratic party; sadly, the fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be born a certain way is a fundamental misunderstanding of what these beliefs are. Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Xenophobia: intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. Homophobia: dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people. Jingoism: extreme patriotism and nationalism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.

See, these are not things that someone is born believing, or subscribing to. In the 1960s, black people in the United States were thought of as: aggressive, violent, prejudiced and racist against white people, dirty, entitled, and many other terms that were untrue and unfair because of nothing more than the color of their skin. What the people of color of the 1960s went through was a testament to their strength, and their incredible fight for civil rights. So, to now go back on years of progress to do the EXACT same thing that whites were doing to POC’s in the 1960s, except now to white people who, on average, hold no negative views on any race, is a vapid, and disgusting misunderstanding of what the civil rights movement fought to accomplish. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other major civil rights leaders (including Malcolm X near the end of his activism) didn’t just fight for black people. They fought for human beings. For the equality of human beings. Simply put, the civil rights movement did not fight for the equality of one group of peoples, but it fought for the equality of all peoples. That the only thing that should ever be considered is the “content of a person’s character." To boil me and so many other students down to negative terms based upon nothing other than the color of their skin is not only absurd, but disgusting and unfair.

Using flowery language in an argument, generally of a philosophical nature, to confuse the listener (or reader) and then triumphantly declaring themselves “educators” is a misnomer. The people that write articles titled “Dear White Law Students” attacking those students have no goal of educating; in reality, these goals are simply to attack someone who simply looks like them in order to somehow feel better about the loathing and self-hatred that they have because they have convinced themselves of all the horrible things that they are; however, these beliefs are a personal choice. If a black man dislikes me because of nothing more than my whiteness, they are by definition racist. If I hated a man with a different sexuality than me, simply because I was heterosexual, then I would be a homophobe (or whatever term is used for hatred of other sexualities). This is an engagement of personal choice; all human beings (white people, POCs, Asians, etc.) are biologically equal, and make the choice to ignore that. If you are reading this and it makes you uncomfortable that you are equal biologically, then you in fact do need to check your privilege; every individual is independent of another, and the color that they are or the race that they are should have zero bearing on your opinion of them as a person. Your only care should be how they treat you and whether the choices you see them make are those you want to be associated with. However, to be white and tell POCs who disagree and other white people that you consider “less educated” than you that they simply “don’t understand” it’s probably a good idea to check your privilege.

Dear Law Students, I am asking you (as equal human beings) to remember that the only thing of importance in our society is the content of someone’s character. If you came from poverty, or grew up in an extremely abusive household like I did with virtually no opportunities but somehow managed to work four jobs to pay for college (and now law school) because you wanted something better? Ignore those that boil you down to the color of your skin and your privilege. You are so much more than that.