Personal Narrative: My Responsibility To America

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My responsibility to America is to be a citizen. I am born here, I am raised here and I live here and the things we see and hear is what we live by. My job is to make America a priority not FIRST but something I look upon, but do they look upon is? Americans have to pay their own way, look out for future generations into becoming bigger and BETTER, Not only I but you, friends and family. Look at today’s society, we’re pretty much DESTROYED. Everyday problems… Citizens DON’T have respect for the rest of the world. It’s all just a bunch of “sin”. Being a teen in America faces so many challenges.

I see it as, Police brutality at it’s finest. It includes false arrestment, intimidation, racial profiling, political repression, surveillance

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