If I had freedom of speech - Altea Cardo 2ºAR

                             If I had freedom of speech…

If I had freedom of speech, I would be the voice of everyone in my country, even if the Government took me to jail. I would say everything that we think about rich people that use us for their own luxuries. Can they imagine, just for a second, that we have feelings? They can’t separate us from our families; they can’t exploit us like animals. Well, they are rich people and they can.

If I had freedom of speech, I would talk to my people about fighting for our rights. Just because we haven’t got money, identification cards, good clothes or education, that’s not reason to USE us. They might be more intelligent, richer and powerful than us, but they will never be better people than us.

If I had freedom of speech, I would talk to the women of my country and make them see that they shouldn’t be manipulated by any man. Women should also have power, and they are not inferior in any sense. There are amazing women in my country, like Mikalita. Mikalita’s 17 years old. She works very hard every single day to feed her family. She walks eight Kilometers every day in 38 ºC and, at the end of the day, she suffers domestic violence by her husband. Yet she resists.

If I had freedom of speech, I would just say that I’m a 14 years-old girl and all I want is a chance to show that I care about undeveloped countries like my own, about my future, and about showing the world that in every second you are taking a shower, a man from my country is praying for take one before dying. Every second you are fighting with your boyfriend about he had left something misplaced, a woman from my country is crying in a corner because “her boyfriend” has sexually violated her last night. Every second you are wishing that there wasn’t school, a child from my country is praying to have an education one day instead of having to work in a factory or fight in a war.

But, you know what? At the end, we have nothing to lose. We are from the Congo, a place who nobody knows. Help us.