The Real Issue

Gun Control, Women’s Rights,

LGBTQ+
 Table of Contents

Page 1- Letter From Editors

Page 2- Times When Being LGBTQ+ Isn’t Fabulous- by: Anna Sa

Page 4-Thank You Ma’am: An Analysis- by: Anna Sa

Page 5- Pull the trigger, Watch the aim. - by: Jeremy Vides

Page 6- Does Change Have a Color?- by: Jeremy Vides

Page 7- Segregation, Gun Violence, Racism, Drugs. Why not Women Rights?- by:
Janaisa Mendoza

Page 8- Three Times, In hospital, but she's fine.- by: Janaisa Mendoza

Page 9- Article Citations

 Hello reader, yes you, hello! Thank you for reading The Real Issue.
We’ve brought you some of the most interesting but not yet solved issues in our
current world. When we began, we started with the words: “Community” and “Activism”
which helped us come up with our research question. What kind of risks do each community
of activists face? This issue follows three of the most mainstream world problems for which
these activists are fighting.
Jeremy Vides focuses on Gun Control since it has been affecting our lives, many
incidents have occurred some causing harm and struggles, others leading to even death. Many
of those shootings we ignore could lead to our chaos. My main focus was to raise awareness
towards such an lethal issue through his articles “Pull the trigger, watch the aim.” and “Does
change have an color?”. In “Times When THe LGBTQ+ Isn’t Fabulous” by Anna Sa, The
LGBTQ+ community has seen their bad days, both individually and together. She hopes to
spread those bad days in one article, for even one person to listen.
In “Segregation, Gun violence, Racism, Drugs. Why not Women Rights?” By Janaisa
Mendoza, focuses mainly on the struggle of female’s fighting for their rights. Sexism has
mislead us into inequality the differences between gender are issues that have been
underestimated over time. In this article, you see the true pain and harm women rights
activist are put through.
“Does change have a color?” by Jeremy Vides ,focuses on a activist that through
segregation, racism and discrimination he still managed to speak up for his people through
his music. “Thank You, Ma’am: An Analysis” by Anna Sa investigates the meaning behind the
60 year-old story by Langston Hughs.
And why a strong woman choose kindness over prejudice. The article “three Times, In
hospital, but she's fine” by Janaisa Mendoza, shows the true meaning behind the poem “10-
year old shot three times, but she's fine”, by the incredibly activist, Patricia Smith.
Activism is a way that we can make a difference in our world. All of us at The Real Issue
sincerely hope our jobs of bringing these issues to the top will give inspiration for new fights.
Or at least make you go, “huh.” We can already see the young generation realizing they can
change the world.

Best regards, The editors of The Real Issue.

 Times When Being LGBTQ+ Isn’t Fabulous by Anna Sa
The LGBTQ+ community has had its share of hardships and risks that they faced. From Youtube to health risks,
these are just some of the risks members from all around the world face.
1. Youtube Demonetizations
Earlier this year, YouTubers like Tyler Oakley noticed a strange phenomenon
happening to their videos, they were being demonetized for no apparent reason.
“Ross has also posted about his personal experiences transitioning.” Megan
Farokhmanesh wrote for The Verge. “According to Ross, YouTube’s algorithm
seems to be triggered by the word ‘trans’ specifically to demonetize his videos.”
This doesn’t look good for Youtube. Not only are Youtubers not getting the
money for their videos but, “They also remove education and information for
young people who may not have access to it any other way.” Farokhmanesh
writes.
Along with the anti-LGBTQ+ ads running before videos, this is just one of
the hurdles they need to jump through. 2. Anti-LGBTQ+ States
Though many LGBT members are lucky to be safe in their
neighborhoods and towns, there are places around the globe that don’t
like the idea of anything other than a man and a woman together.
3. The Political Hardships
Like in Mississippi, “Mississippi passed a “religious freedom” law
Since the start of 2018, the health care of LGBT that would allow businesses to deny service to LGBT couples.” Nico
Americans became at risk. “Health Affairs study last Lang writes for Rolling Stone. “the bill was strikingly similar to the one
year found that many LGBT individuals have less Arizona governor Jan Brewer vetoed last year.”
access to care than heterosexuals,” Dan Diamond Or Alabama with it’s “No Promo Homo” laws that prohibit students
writes for Politico. “in a Harvard-Robert Wood from learning about gay and transgender problems. From which they
could learn from Youtube but, as discussed earlier, it’s a bit harder now.
Johnson-NPR survey one in six LGBT individuals
But now these will be utterly surprised when they enter the real world.
reported experiencing discrimination from doctors or at The Republican party of Texas also aren’t crazy for gay people as
a clinic.” they are “of the least accepting of same-sex marriage, his party currently
During Obama’s run as president, LGBT Americans backs conversion therapy for minors, a practice that California has
were health benefits such as “loosening the rules on outlawed.” Lang writes.
hospital visitation rights after some same-sex couples Conversion therapy practices trying to change the sexuality of one to
had been barred from seeing each other.” Writes being heterosexual. If you’ve never heard the stories, the stories say it’s
close to torture. If you want to learn more, there’s a great article on what
Diamond. Now we seem to be back-tracking.
happens during conversion therapy on the New York Times by Sam
The Trump administration has made it clear who Brinton.
they support. In January of 2018, they’ve made it easier 4. On Being Bisexual
for health workers to deny care to LGBT Americans if Speaking of health risks, “Bisexual individuals have higher rates of
they have a religious reason for not wanting to. This depression and anxiety and are at a higher risk for suicide than gay and
leads to many not getting the care they need when they lesbian folks.” Zachary Zane writes for Washington Post.
need it the most, for their sexuality. If you don’t already know, being bisexual means you are attracted to both
men and women; unlike pansexual which means to be attracted to a person
regardless of their gender or sexuality.
But as Zane writes, “Sabra L. Katz-Wise, an assistant professor at Boston
Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, mentioned that bisexuals
are ‘often experiencing discrimination from both heterosexual and sexual
minority communities, where the same may not be true for lesbian and gay
individuals.’” This means that bisexual individuals are facing discrimination
for being even more different then you’d expect.
Though it’s not as prominent as the challenges of a trans person, this issue
is still important. The one thing the LGBT community has truly been fighting
for all these years is acceptance and this needs to be done for bisexuals as
well as transgender people.
The LGBTQ+ community has had its share of hardships. From Youtube to health risks, these were truly only some of the hardships
they have to face. They were ignored or put in danger by others and by themselves. But if ever need someone to talk to about your
sexuality and its hardships, and you don’t already, you can call at 1-866-488-7386 or text START 678678 to talk to someone over at
the TrevorLifeline for the Trevor Project, an organization created as a crisis hotline for LGBT youths.
 Thank You Ma’am: An Analysis
By Anna Sa
“He barely managed to say “Thank you” before she shut the door. And he never saw her again.” (3)
“Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughs is a short story about a woman who takes in a child for dinner after he tries to steal her
purse.
Though Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones doesn’t seem to be an activist for something, she seems to be a small activist for
kindness, as she takes the boy in when he doesn’t deserve it. The author’s intention behind creating “Thank You, Ma’am” was to
entertain the reader but also teach them something. The message they wanted to get across was that anyone can make a lasting
impact on someone just by caring.
Hughs says, “‘If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with
you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.’ ” (2)
Though she may not seem kind here, her actions show that she is. Again, she showed kindness even after he tried to steal her
purse but also the way she handles is comical.
What makes this work stand out is how sweet the woman was after the teen tried to steal her purse or steal her money. She didn’t
hold any grudges. She treated the boy with kindness as she let him wash his face and eat her food.
The tone of the short story is benevolent because there is no part where the woman is being harsh to be harsh.
Hughs writes, “The woman was sitting on the day-bed. After a while she said, ‘I were young once and I wanted things I could
not get.’ There was another long pause. The boy’s mouth opened. Then he frowned, but not knowing he frowned. The woman said,
‘Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people’s
pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that.’ Pause. Silence. ‘I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither tell
God, if he didn’t already know. So you set down while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so you
will look presentable.’ ” (2-3)
Instead of an angsty story where the boy goes to jail because he’s just a poor boy trying to steal a woman’s purse, it’s a story
about a boy who tries to steal a woman’s purse and instead of bringing him to jail, he’s being cared for with food and drink. The
boy learns something from the woman instead of potentially holding a grudge against her or hating her like what’s already
happening at the time.
This piece makes a commentary about the issues they write about by basically saying that kindness goes a long way. Usually,
one wouldn’t be able to do anything if their purse was stolen but Washington Jones was able to save herself and show the boy who
tried to steal her purse, some kindness.
During the time this story was published, in 1958, the Civil Rights Movement and the Korean war was active. The communities
were split in two. People were not nice to others.
“ ‘You gonna take me to jail?’ asked the boy, bending over the sink.
‘Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,’ said the woman. ‘Here I am trying to get
home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t been to your
supper either, late as it be. Have you?’
‘There’s nobody home at my house,’ said the boy.
‘Then we’ll eat,’ said the woman, ‘I believe you’re hungry—or been hungry—to try to snatch my
Pocketbook.’ ” (2)
You can tell that they come from different worlds but he doesn’t leave when he has the chance
and she doesn’t call the police. It’s clear she doesn’t believe in leaving people without a lesson. For him, it was kindness, which he
wouldn’t be able to see back then.
Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughs is a short story about a woman who takes in a child for dinner after he tries to steal her
purse. Though Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones doesn’t seem to be an activist for something, she seems to be a small activist
for kindness, as she takes the boy in when he doesn’t deserve it.
We are not in the 1950s anymore but we can always improve. In our days, the internet has become a place where hate and prejudice
can grow and flourish. We can always just be a little bit kinder.
 Pull the trigger, watch the aim.

By:Jeremy Vides

How could an average citizen get access to customized military weaponry? It is easier than people think. In the United States, about 307
Mass shootings since January to November have occurred in America. A Mass Shooting occurs when an individual or a group of people
kill more than 3 individuals. Sometimes citizens question their own safety.
If we ignore nonfatal shootings, we do not realize the impact gun violence has in our current society. Gun violence has been involved in
our community, it could easily affect anyone's safety when you least realize it, it could cause a lot of damage to family, property, and
people. We could stop gun violence we just need to realize it to have the proper safety in our community.
“Fatal gun violence is often categorized in ways that make it easy to track and study. That’s how researchers know that the murder
rate in the United States has declined steadily over the past three decades. But what about gun violence that does not result in death? That is
far trickier to measure. That’s because nonfatal gun violence has mostly been ignored.” David S. Bernstein wrote for The Atlantic.
According to The Atlantic, we have been ignoring the nonfatal shootings that have occurred could easily lead us to the
misunderstanding of the dangers of weaponry in our community. Realizing how gun violence affects our community could lead to the
solution of the conflict. It also suggests that it is harder to measure a nonfatal shooting since in the US it's been mostly ignored over time.
However, students and citizens stood up together to fight for their safety and their education against gun violence in the country.
After the shooting incident in one of our high school people have started to slowly realize why gun control is important to keep our society
safe.
“Demonstrators flooded streets across the globe in public protests on Saturday, calling for action against gun violence. Hundreds
of thousands of marchers turned out, in the most ambitious show of force yet from a student-driven movement that emerged after the recent
massacre at a South Florida high school” New York Times mentioned in one of their articles.
New York Time’s point is that people have shown that they do care about their safety and that by working together they could
benefit from the result. Our community has started movements that involve acts against gun violence such as our students and teachers
combining to fight back against the abuse of power of weaponry in the US.
Students had started to question their safety in public places such as the school in which they get their education. There had been a
lot of movements regarding the case of Parkland and students now feared their safety was at risk.
“The first protests began before students even had a chance to return to class. On Feb. 20, hundreds of students from neighboring
West Boca High spontaneously walked out of school during a moment of silence and hiked more than 10 miles to the Parkland campus.
Some wanted to show solidarity with their neighbors, others decried a lack of safety at school.” Said Danielle Haynes for UPI.
In other words, Danielle Haynes believes that people have been paying their respect and honoring those who have fallen to such a
horrible incident. She also believed that students had realized the dangers of our country and now questioned and feared their safety even at
their own local schools.
How could a man possibly enter a well-secured place with firearms without calling any suspicion? That's the exact question agents
and the police had been wondering about. He had access to military customized weaponry to use in this chaotic situation. He was not
detected neither looked suspicious to the security at all.
“Among the questions they have: How a former accountant with a penchant for high-stakes gambling obtained a weapon that
sounded to those on the ground like it could fire as an automatic, and how he was able to bring it and many other weapons into a Vegas
hotel suite undetected.” Mentioned Lynh Bui, Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett and Mark Berman for Washington Post.
We could easily relate this information back to the old times such as Columbine when two students had entered the school with
firearms without calling attention before the incident. This quote also shows that even secured places are vulnerable to gun violence and
that if we do not stand strong against it we might have another main conflict in our society.
All of these events guide towards the bigger issue of guns and how we underestimate the harm and the damage that could be
caused easily by the pulling of a trigger. If we underestimate guns we could guide this world into chaos by making foolish decisions, war
and many other shootings could occur. Many groups of different movements have attempted to stop this and are now successfully stopping
it, this relates to our thesis of activism in our society against the main issue. Our society is in danger and we need to stop it.
Does Change have a color?
By: Jeremy Vides
2pac’s new single “Changes”
was released back in 1998
Changes are what decide whether we make progress or don’t,
all you have to do is realize what side you are standing on. In
the song “Changes” by 2pac, he talks about the struggles he
goes through, like police brutality, discrimination and
inequality because of his race. He mentions are
Tupac would influence his audience by
using a variety of simple but meaningful words, these would
easily call awareness towards the conflict, which in this case
it would be the inequality and discrimination of black
communities. His lyrics would open many possible
perspectives towards this conflict, allowing the people to
choose what side they are on as long as they look into both
sides first.
Tupac’s intention was to speak up for the
black community and how discrimination has left them in
harsh conditions with no changes whatsoever. His main
message was to call out awareness towards the killing and
the conflict between races since segregation was still a thing
back in this time. One of his lines is “Cops give a damn about
a negro pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero.” shows that
back in 1992-1998 one of their biggest conflicts was racism
and inequality which easily allowed Police brutality to occur.
With this line, he is speaking up for the black community and
calling awareness towards the discrimination to his race.
The tone for “Changes” is significant since he tries to call
awareness of one of our biggest issues such as
discrimination, police brutality, and inequality. One of the
strongest lines were “ "It's time to fight back," that's what
Huey said Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead.” shows
how activism or any act against the conflict will have
consequences even deadly ones. The tone easily adds
suspense to the details that are being mentioned throughout
the melody.
“Changes” focuses mainly on the
conditions and the discrimination blacks had to go through.
All of the inequality between each race affected blacks the
most since they were treated as if they were inferior to the
“Superior race.” In conclusion, it brings awareness towards
racial issues in our country that still occur till this day. His
lyrics use specific details and manage to fit into the
stereotypes, he also manages to make people realize that,
some people today still don't notice the dangers of
discrimination and the equality some of us still experience
today. 2pac uses his lyrics to show the conflict from many
different perspectives.
In conclusion, uses his lyrics to talk about
the struggles the black community has to go through, he also
uses his tone, and most importantly his intentions to set off a
mood that allows other to take different perspectives from the
issue. This creative piece relates to activism and community
since 2tupac not only speaks up for an issue occurring in the
community but he also mentioned his part of the community
and how he was treated.
 Segregation, Gun violence, Racism, Drugs. Why not Women
Rights?
By: Janaisa Mendoza
We’ve gone over issues like
Segregation, Gun Violence, Racism, and Drugs
but why not Women rights? When it comes to the
topic of Women rights, they usually have to fight
for them.
Women rights activist go through a lot
of physical risks just for fighting for what they
believe in, equality.
First off, a woman named Neha traveled
to Southern Yemen to see the most horrific thing
she ever experienced. In this quote, the reporter is
getting ready to cover a very important case on
women rights.
“Prepare yourself,” my colleague
warned me as I was about to travel to Aden, a
port city in southern Yemen, to cover the
devastating impact of the country’s war on
women and girls. “It’s the worst I’ve ever
seen.”(‘We Are Willing to Die Here’: The Fight
for Women’s Rights in Yemen, by Neha
Wadekar).
There are many horrible situations that
include Women and girls. Even after seeing many
other Women rights situations this one was
known as devasting, horrible, and the worst ever
seen.
Secondly, people around the world come
together to act for women rights. This explains
what they are fighting for and how hard they will
Secondly, people around the
world come together to act for women
rights. This explains what they are
fighting for and how hard they will
fight for it.
It was the beginning of a 16-
day campaign urging individuals and
organizations to fight the kind of
violence that will affect more than a
third of women globally during their
lives, according to the United Nations.”
There are many people out in
the world who are willing to fight for
something as big as women rights.
They fight so hard for this because it
affects many women/girls in their lives.
Sometimes even very horribly.
Third of all, many women
rights activists are sent behind bars and
treated horribly. After being imprisoned
many women activists are faced with
many horrifying ‘activists detention’.
“Several women’s rights
activists who have been imprisoned in
Saudi Arabia for more than six months
have been subjected to psychological or
physical abuse while in custody,
including sleep deprivation and
beatings, according to four people
familiar with the conditions of the
activists’ detention.”
Many women in Saudi Arabia
are punished in prison. They aren’t
punished easily in fact that are punished
very horribly.
Fourth of all, many activists
are being punished horribly because
they acted for an issue. People who
decided to stand up and act for an issue
were horribly punished in jail and
showed signs of their horrible
treatment.
“Activists were repeatedly
tortured by electrocution and flogging,
leaving some unable to walk or stand
properly, with marks on their bodies
and uncontrolled shaking of the hands.”
After acting for a big issue
activists are punished in prison. They
are punished very horribly to the point
where they are showing physical signs
of harm.
In conclusion, many people
have noticed the issue of women rights,
but also with acting for this issue they
are punished. With acting for a cause
there is always a consequence. When
acting for different issues there is
different risks and different
consequences people face. In the end,
you should learn how women are
treated for acting up for a cause that
affects every woman. You should also
learn who badly this can affect women
and the way they are treated.
 Three Times, In hospital, but she's fine.
By: Janaisa Mendoza
People believe segregation is in the past but is that
really true? The poem “10-Year-Old Shot Three
Times, but She’s Fine” talks about a young black
girl and her perspective on the situation of her
being shot by a white man as she in the hospital
room. The poem also shows us how her mother
and her school felt about this situation.
This poem relates to the risks activist take because
she was shot when blacks and whites did not get
along so most likely she was shot by a white
person.
The intention was to show people what happened
to young black children through the tough time of
segregation. The message they wanted to get
across is that innocent children are being harmed
or even killed just because of their skin color. In
2017, segregation was a big problem. There were
many protests and shootings about it.
In this poem it says “Dumbfounded in hospital
whites, you are picture-book
itty-bit, floundering in bleach and steel” (Patricia
Smith, stanza one).
Basically, this quote from the poem is saying that
she woke up in a hospital full of white people, and
if we connect it back to the thesis she was shot
because she was black and that is a risk that they
take for not just them but their family.
As she is laying in the hospital bed she is
questioned about the experience. She explains to
them what she knows as they continue to question
her. This poem can have many different tones but
the one that sticks out the most is direct because
the young girl is direct about what she sees and
doesn’t hesitate to tell them what she saw.
Evidence of this tone is “Who shot you, baby?
I don’t know. I was playing.
You didn’t see anyone?
I was playing with my friend Sharon.
I was on the swing
and she was—
Are you sure you didn’t—
No, I ain’t seen nobody but Sharon. I heard
people yelling though, and—” (stanza two).
This is explaining how she directly told them she
didn’t see anything and directly told them who
was with her. She also directly explains what she
heard, saw and who she was with.
The poet Patrica Smith is known for making
poems to send a message about an issue in the
world, I believe this poem is trying to say is they
may have a physical difference but they have the
same emotions.
And to show that segregation is
not okay because it puts innocent
people and children in danger.
During 2017 there was a lot of
issues with segregation but also
during 2017, Donald Trump
proposed his budget proposal
which happened to budget
federal Medicaid by 15 percent
over 10 years.
A part of this poem that shows
this is “No need to coo or
encircle anything, no call for
anyone to pull their official white
fingers through your raveled hair,
no reason to introduce
the wild notion of loving you
loud and regardless” (stanza 4).
This is showing that this child
feels unloved and that they think
it is impossible for them to be
loved, just because of their color.
This connects to my thesis
because this shows that one risk
they can take is the feeling of
hopelessness.
The poem I choose was “10-
Year-Old Shot Three Times, but
She’s Fine”, this poem was by
Patricia Smith. Throughout
reading this poem we can
identify the author’s intentions,
her tone,
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 “This is a rainbow of
arts, activism, race,
gender, age, and class.”