Part of our commitment to Earth is giving youth the space to express themselves in ways that are both healthy and productive. Healthy is centered on the idea that our youth must maintain positive, not perfect, perspectives and interpretations of themselves and each other. As adults, we tend to lose focus on our inner childlike need to be seen, heard, and understood. As an adult, this tends to translate into a need to dominate other races and cultures through politics, sports, or physical masculinity or feminine beauty. This forms into the “a man is not a man unless he has muscles” or a “woman is nothing unless she wears make-up and dresses in name-brands” or “my political party is the way and yours isn’t.” Needless to say, the impacts of this type of thinking lead to insecurities, insurrections, and preventable violence.
Hitler thought that Germany needed to isolate itself from the rest of the world by becoming homogeneous. In the same way, North Korean president Kim Jong Un isolates his nation from the rest of the world. The United States, albeit 250 years old, has never been a homogeneous nation, though some may wish it were.
Without proper brakes, division can easily translate into chaos, pitting groups against each other while the few who benefit from chaos control the narrative of this unnecessary division. All this to say is that humans are social creatures and suffer when this social connection is broken amongst themselves.
As adults, we cling to identities that are often not grounded in reality. For example, a Republican is not a racist, nor is a Democrat a tree-hugging fruit. These are stereotypes and not grounded in reality. It was once believed that a slave who wanted to run away from a cruel master was considered to be mentally unstable. It was once believed that one race bled differently than another. Today, science undeniably proves that many of us share the same blood type, whether O positive or O negative. Today, it is well accepted that any modern-day slave is not mentally unstable because they have a desire to run away from a master who abuses them.
Our youth are under tremendous pressure every single day to adhere to the unusual and at times hypocritical and counterintuitive rules and thinking set by adults. In other words, the “do as I say, not as I do” thinking that we as adults sometimes trap ourselves in.
At times, it may seem that we, as adults, expect our youth to be perfect while simultaneously telling them it’s okay to make mistakes. This confusing counterintuitive ideology leads to chaos in our youth’s minds. Some youth may see adults as leeches rather than as role models. If our youth have no role model, our youth are left hopeless in a world that seems ruthless.
As adults, we may put so much pressure on our youth to perform and excel faster, smarter, and better than other youth. From an early age, our youth understand the color dynamics that adults play by, and this is evident in the racial conversations youth have with each other.
We have heard youth say that one particular race is more prone to committing adultery vs another race. We have heard our youth state things like one race liking a particular grain or fruit more than another race. We have heard our youth blame certain ethnicities for pushing propaganda onto the world in the same way Hitler blamed the Jewish people for Germany’s problems during the era leading to the Nazi regime. While we, as adults, tend to blame the mentality of our youth on the internet and their choice of friends, never ourselves.
I Am Humans has taken the initiative to be the Elephant in the room. Our staff has difficult conversations with our youth about how our youth develop their identities and characters. While we do not expect our youth to be perfect, we allow our youth to make mistakes. I Am Humans loves using popular culture to help our youth form their own opinions on topics and issues related to our world and our environment. If the average human being lives to be 75 years old and the United States reaches 250 years old in 2026, that makes the United States only 3.33 generations old. This isolated notion means that many of the racist, outdated, or bigoted ideologies left behind from our great, great, great grandparents are still alive today, albeit in an explicit or implicit way.
I Am Humans wants to be the safe space where the lingering impacts of our past families’ choices and beliefs can be discussed in a way that moves forward, not backward. I Am Humans wants to take the negative connotation of humanity that lingers in movies, comic books, anime shows, and cartoons away from the idea that humanity is a ruthless, vile, and senile disease, and instead showcase humans in a different light. A manner in which all humans share identities within themselves without needing to polarize or divide one group vs another. To do this, we must develop a strong sense of purpose that pushes beyond the narratives of the status quo. For the status quo would like us to believe in the idea that our cultures and our beliefs will never align in a way that benefits all of humanity instead of the privileged few.
I Am Humans is just a small piece of a much larger puzzle. The puzzle is Earth, and each piece is the various parts that make up who humanity is. From janitors, school teachers, grocery store clerks, bus drivers, and all the essential workers who were once idolized during the pandemic but forgotten once the smoke cleared. For a healthy society to flourish, our youth must be the main focus of our attention. In the same way Jesus said, “It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to their dogs” (Matthew 15:26).
Our works and efforts in raising youth into men and women of tomorrow will be our lifetime of focus and attention. While we cannot expect our youth to be perfect, we, as adults, must set the example and model what we desire from our youth. While simultaneously allowing our youth to make mistakes and offering them space to express themselves without becoming judgmental when they behave, think, act, or speak in ways that do not align with the beliefs and ideologies we carry as their parents.
In other words, if Dad loves basketball, our son doesn’t need to love the sport just because Dad does. Just watch The Breakfast Club and many of our readers may understand the approach we desire to become as an organization.
Many of our staff have been tortured by the Cruciatus Curse and the Star Wars Force Choke, which is a violation of our rights under the 8th amendment from the Constitution of the United States, which states, “nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
We will not allow these Unforgivable curses to wreak havoc across our world or be performed by our youth.
I Am Humans will always seek new ways to become the vessel and space in which youth are allowed to operate in a way that gives them mental focus, clarity, and purpose, and to exemplify the lighter characteristics that human beings across the grid and around the globe radiate every day.