For my civic issue this semester, going along with my obvious fondness for the fight for people’s rights to be whoever they choose to be, my civic issues blog posts will be falling under the Identities and Rights category. This category, as stated on the class blog, examines identities, such as race, class, sexuality, gender and religion and how that corresponds with rights and fairness. Primarily, as of right now, I want to focus on what being Middle Eastern looks like in the United States of America, under the current governmental administration and recent events, what past events have influenced the perspective of Middle Eastern people, and why those who antagonize Middle Eastern people living in the United States are very falsely informed, but also show high levels of arrogance in response to fear rather than compassion.

As I have already heavily focused on the lives of people with various sexualities in the United States last semester, I would like to focus on race and how that affects the lives of colored people in the United States, even though many non-colored people may say that there is no longer any oppression towards colored people in our country. I could talk about colored populations in prisons, and how this compares to white people who have committed the same offense but got a lesser charge, and the bias and prejudice that is present in law enforcement, either very obviously or slightly more subtly than believed.