The suicide rate in the United States has increased by nearly 30% over the last 15 years. That’s nearly 50,000 people a year who kill themselves! In the last three years since Trump took office, these rates are increasing faster than EVER BEFORE. Of these suicides, the vast majority are America’s youth and racial and sexual minorities. For transgendered youth, in particular, approximately 30% have attempted suicide at least once in their lives! So, why do America’s racial and sexual minorities hate themselves? Why are they killing themselves in such large numbers?
The suicide rate in the United States has increased by nearly 30% over the last 15 years. That’s nearly 50,000 people a year who kill themselves! In the last three years since Trump took office, these rates are increasing faster than EVER BEFORE. Of these suicides, the vast majority are America’s youth and racial and sexual minorities. For transgendered youth, in particular, approximately 30% have attempted suicide at least once in their lives! So, why do America’s racial and sexual minorities hate themselves? Why are they killing themselves in such large numbers?

How can the individual find solace among all this violence? The pressure is to conform. To act you’re white, to work white jobs, to worship white Gods and find your place in the white system. But this doesn’t work for anyone unless they are a white male!!!

We can’t wait for politicians to solve these problems. For starters, as a community, we need to seek out and embrace these people. We need to create community organizations that offer assistance to these communities. We need to create counseling services to help people sort through these feelings of internalized hate.

But ultimately, we need to destroy the white power system. That means we need to boycott the banks and the corporations and the politicians that are all part of it. It’s certainly not a simple solution, but if we truly care about those who are hurting to the point or taking their own lives, we have got to act now! Every 30 seconds someone else dies of suicide!