Does it have to be this way?

"Race plays no part here... We have been and continue to be the pawns ...and the collateral for this American society. You should think about that (twice) before you go again comparing our journeys. They make it sound easy, like we can just dodge the social and economic restraints that we were born into and get rich.

Interesting, too, how you have places like McDonald's and Applebees that pollute our communities ..feeding our people their rotten food, employing our people with their shitty jobs, for wages that don't amount to the labor ..giving our people that fake ego boost when they get a promotion at a fast food restaurant, using our people as pawns in their commercials to lure more of us in, and on the back end are in contractual deals with folks using inmates for free labor to make their uniforms and office chairs. We are their business ...on every level and have nothing but growing issues to show for it.

 That's how business often works though, right? Big Business?"

Written by a Troubled Youth