Dear Diary,
I spent today alone at school again, I am pretty much used to being alone, I tend to spend my time watching people, sometimes I often get lost in my thoughts and over think things. It's something I try not to do, because usually the thoughts come to self reflection and I hold myself in such a low opinion, my thoughts get pretty ugly. I found myself thinking a lot about several things today, the thing that occurred to me most is the irony of a hate crime. I mean if you define a Hate crime it is when a perpetrator targets a victim because of a perceived membership of a specific social group usually defined by race, it can also be from religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality or gender. The thing is if a white person attacked an African- American then it's considered a hate crime and it's judged a lot harsher than a normal crime of that stature, but I find it ironic, I mean all crimes are a crimes of hate so why say "this is a hate crime" just because the color of skin or based on what I have wrote above. Its ridiculous, if you look at history, all African-Americans want is equal rights, to be treated the same, how is it equal rights if someone attacked them got a worse punishment because of the color of skin, if anything that is not equal rights, but special treatment. So you can see why I find a hate crime ironic, but that’s only only in one example then there is all the other social groups I mentioned and it's the same, because everyone asks to be treated equal but no one gets it because we are too busy punishing people too harshly for small things that makes us different, also I heard about something else, but am not too sure on this, I have to research it, I heard people who kill police officers get capital punishment which means death row. I don't really understand that I mean they say it's because they're a Police Officer, I don't see what the big deal is, I mean it's not because they're noble or selfless, they're not doing it from the goodness of their own hearts, they get paid to do protect and serve, so if they die on the job, then why should it matter, all jobs have workplace hazards, nothing in life is certain. yet we hold the lives of police officers in such high standards that their lives mean more than the lives of everyone else how is that fair, how is that equality? All lives are worth the same so why should someone die if they kill a police officer, when if they killed a normal person they would just get jail? A life is a life occupation should not matter. So yeah this is what happens when I sit alone at lunch, I have these strange thoughts, I over think things way too much, well I maybe missing some stuff I don't really know, these are just thoughts that came to mind. The rest of the day was pretty normal, usual bullying and such. I need to go now I got homework to do. ~Faith
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