My whole life I have been treated poorly because of who my family is. Everyone associated with my family and in my life agreed to treat me shitty because I was not like them. And I did not live up to my birthrights in the way my family saw appropriate. This was a sin punishable by death in my family. But not until my family killed my Grandpa Graves and Grandma Kudearoff did they have the power to make these decisions about me.
Me not being like my family and being able to survive the world signing up to kill me are you people’s saving grace. And I hope one day these will also become my saving grace. I believe in treating people based on merit because I was never treated based on merit. Instead you people listened to lies my family told you all about me and destroyed me in every way possible for a lifetime. My family has lied to you all for generations and you all almost killed me because of those lies. And your freedom would have died with me.
I believe in treating people based on merit because it is what I deserve. No one deserves to be killed for the sins of their families. No one deserves privilege based on the merit of their ancestors. We all deserve the ability to earn and prove our own worth, including me.