Tumblr Academy reimagined

I sighed and went inside, paying for the doughnuts.

"I'm sorry that you had to be the one to go in and pay," I apologized as she exited the bakery. I took the lead again, headed back towards the motel and the others.

"Don't apologize for the racists," I told him, holding the box out to him. "It's not your fault. Thanks for getting me doughnuts in the first place!"

I shrugged a little bit. It was fine. It had been like this since android were created, and in a way it made sense. People feared we would take their jobs, and then we did, despite us not wanting to in the first place. There would always be some kinds of people that would hate us for things like that. I led us back to the motel, plopping back down on the bench near my room.

((Technically, robots are taking the jobs, but our robots don't have emotions. And this is way too much like the whole crap with POC so it's kinda hitting me pretty close.))

I opened the box and shoved about half of one in my mouth.

((Seriously, this is the first time in my life I've actually been afraid of getting deported. Sure, I used to joke about it and still do, but still. It's scary.))

((You were born in the U.S. right?))

Liv: I leaned back a bit and messed with my bead necklace from camp. I missed my friends and my family.

((Yes. But ICE is trying to detain and deport people without due process, meaning, there's no one for me to show my birth certificate to proving that I was born in the US because that doesn't matter to them.))

Alistair: I knocked on Olivia's door. I knew I needed someone to talk to, and I was sure she did too. "It's me," I called softly.

I got up and opened the door for him.

((You're a legal citizen.))

((I don't think that's stopping them. What might is the fact that I had a white great-grandma... and the fact that I don't live in a border state.))

I looked down at her, studying her expression. "Can I come in?"

((Jaydinn they aren't just picking up random people and deporting them. You're aware of that right? It's people who are here illegally and have fake or no documents. These are all laws we've had for a really long time that just haven't been enforced even though they should be that's why people are freaking out about it. They aren't going to deport you. You are a legal American citizen who was born here and has access to documentation to prove it. The news runs on emotion and they try to make things sound way worse than they actually are. There are so many examples of it))

I nodded and stepped to the side so he could come in.

((Yeah, you're right. I know you're right, but I just can't help but be concern that so many people are okay with it and how they're treating people who committed a felony because of the color of their skin.))

I walked in, looking around her room. "This is a nice hotel," I muttered, looking for a place to sit.

((They're treating them that way because they are illegal immigrants, the same thing would happen if they were from Europe or anywhere else where they are white as well. It is not because of the color of their skin it is because they are not here legally and yes a high number are hispanic, but that is only because Mexico is so close to us.))

I nodded slightly again and kept playing with my necklace. there were a couple chairs in the corner, so I sat in one.

((But white illegal immigrant children aren't being put in cages and forced to stand trials without lawyers because they can't afford them, nor do they know what lawyers are.))

I sat in a chair next to her. "How are you holding up?"

((You mean the temporary holding areas before they are moved to children's homes?))

((Still traumatizing, still separated and probably may not be returned to their parents, and who the hell in the government thinks it's a good idea to put children in a cage, even if it's for like, an hour, that's still seriously messed up!))

((You're talking about that little girl that they plastered all over the news right?))

((also fyi most of those kids are sent alone))

((I'm talking about the multiple pictures I've seen online from other journalists.))

((Aw man, what is this? We've never fought before, especially over politics.))

((Ok. Little girl full story. Her mother who wasn't facing any kind of financial difficulty in her home country decided she wanted to come to America despite her husband not thinking it was a good idea and essentially kidnapped her youngest daughter, her husband had no clue if she was ok until the picture started going around. The reason she was crying was because after an extremely long journey her mom set her down for a couple minutes. She was never separated from her mom.))

((It isn't a fight, it's a discussion))

((I hate to be all "Spencer" about it, but I hate this discussion. I'm sorry. I'm not educated fully on this topic, but I'm still scared. There are people, literal Nazis in our freaking government who would just love to purge the world of people who look like me and I just can't help but heed caution when I see stuff like that.))

((That is literally not what is happening at all. The cage pictures are from 2014 people just thought they were recent and Trump is actually trying to get legislation passed to make sure that children aren't separated from their parents for as long as it is safe for them. I'm sorry if that isn't what you want to here from me, but it's what's going on right now and in this type of situation I'm going to look to facts over emotion. You are here legally and just like everyone else who is here legally you have nothing to worry about. ok?))