Dealing with discrimination

In dictionary.com it give “discrimination the meaning a treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.” No offense to anyone who is white, but when you are black, women and you are not wealthy you tend to be discriminated on more often. Other races too have felt discrimination’s bite and it hurts. Races like Chinese, Japanese and Native Americans just to name a few. I have felt discrimination and it hurts, it hurts really badly when you are being discriminated because of where your parents are from. This type of discrimination is called national origin discrimination.

I live in the Bahamas you have not yet notice that I am of Haitian dissent. Living in the Bahamas and your parents are Haitians is not a happy picnic. You hear all the horrible things they have to say about your own people. They treat you totally different when they hear your last name or when they find out that you are Haitian. It hurts me countless amount of times and so that’s why our parents are working hard for us to leave this country. I usually see Haitians getting yelled at and being cursed at because they did not do something right and they are probably older than the person they are working for. They really do look down on us. They treat us so badly because they say we are trying to take over their country. Haitians have no interest in taking the Bahamas but that does not stop them from treating us badly.

I am of Haitian decent and I am poor. I do not have any money to go to college and so I am trying to make just some money on the internet to go to college. Even though I did well in school I was not able to apply to any scholarships to go to college or get any financial aid because I was not a citizen of the Bahamas. I am not a citizen because my parents are not Bahamians and that means I am stateless. In other words I stayed like that until I reached the age of eighteen to apply to get citizenship which took about three sometime six years. During that time I can do nothing. I finally got my citizenship couple months ago, I am twenty one right now. It toke me four years because I had finish school when I was seventeen and so I had to wait I year. Now I finally got the citizenship I can’t get any scholarships and the scholarships they have right now is too small, they have so little scholarships since the recession. Now I am hope that maybe I will find a way to go to college. It is hard. I have to do all the exams over, like the SAT and others. That means I have to work really hard. It hurts that I worked hard in school, I never ever hang out with the wrong crowd and I did not get pregnant but because my parents are Haitians I had to be held back from my dreams. I do not have any dreams any more, all I want is to get out of this country and just live.

If you think your life is hard, yours is not, someone else could have it worse than me or you. Trust me; my life is hard discrimination I deal with everyday and on top of that I have other problems. I usually say a prayer to God and this how it goes:
Dear God,
I thank you for everything,
Things I ask you did not give me and things you give me when I did not ask,
I ask that you may heal me from the things I have experience let them strengthen me so I maybe a better person.
I pray that you will forgive those who love and hate me.
Forgive me lord.
I am a just wondering if you can hear me, or am I a silent voice.
I pray that you will allow my dad and sister will find jobs.
I pray that you will heal my mother from all her sickness and I ask lord to bless me with unimaginable favors and blessings.
I pray you my forgive all of us humans for our sins lord, things you should have done and things you did. For give us lord.
I thank you lord for everything. In Jesus name I pray Amen.