AP Lang Piece

Hey guys! I have been kind of swamped with all of the crap I've had to do lately, so bear with me, I'll try to roll in the content more often.

   Anywho, I wrote a piece in my AP Language class and had to post it on this blog page and all that jazz for a grade. So far it has 0 likes, 0 comments, 22 views and counting. People are viewing it, but no comment. So, it means A: my essay was too ballsy for some people, or B: people are too lazy, or even C: not enough people know me in that class so they don't know how I would respond to commentation. Whatever. Thought I'd show you what I wrote, I'm quite proud of it.

The Taboo that Kills

by Cailin Rogers

What can you do in twenty-six seconds?  Can you tie your shoes, throw a grape in the air and catch it, post a witty tweet? Time seems to rush so fast, twenty-six seconds seem miniscule on a grand scale. But every twenty-six seconds someone is forced into sex slavery. Trapped in the worst of terrors, an unimaginable number of people are forced into the sex trafficking business.

Oops.

   Sorry, I forgot I am not supposed to talk about those kinds of things with my young impressionable peers. Some of you might cringe, some scroll onto a different article, because honestly nobody likes to read about this topic; you want to read something satirical and comedic.  My sincerest apologies, but I’ve stood toe to toe with sex-trafficking and we’ve given each other a good looking over. Neither of us like what we see.
    We all have a different exposure to sex-trafficking.  My story of exposure isn’t even mine, but needs to be shared. Once upon a time there was a girl named Shaniya Davis. This beautiful black girl was reported missing by her school and people started looking for her. She was found, luckily. In a garbage bin…in a trash bag…dead. It was discovered that she was raped to death, sold by her parents who were assumed to be loving and caring, for drugs.

Shaniya Davis was five years old. She had just started kindergarten.

    This story played out in where I was living at the time, Fayetteville, NC, the armpit of America. We were in an uproar, how could this happen? This shouldn’t and couldn’t happen to five year olds! But that was before it came to my attention that five year olds are sold every day to be raped by big scary men. In fact, nowadays three year olds are really in.

This is bad. I don’t even think I need to tell you that. But that’s not the worst bit.

   The worst bit is that there are millions of Americans who are quite a bit like you and me are. Privileged. Now, you may be thinking, um Cailin, I’m not privileged, I don’t have the iPhone 5. You have a roof over your head, food in your belly, and you are relatively safe. You are privileged.  Anyways, there are millions of you and me out there, and what do the vast majority of us do about this increasing issue?

Ignore it. Pretend it doesn’t happen.

    Today, I challenge you. Challenge you to fight the apathy that has invaded America and my generation in particular. Don't go all 'I'm only one person' on me, for godsakes, Gandhi quit eating and he stopped a civil war! I believe you have the skills to make a difference, and I believe we as privileged owe it to the oppressed to hold out our hand for them to grasp. Think, then do.
NOTE: I work with an anti-sex trafficking organization based in Australia (because Aussies are in fact, aussome). If you want to make a difference with this issue Destiny Rescue has multiple options to assist you on the matter .

Thanks guys for reading! Comment if you wish. 

Over and out.

Love,

Cailin