Awoke: A modern day green book

Please include the main body in your letters to the editor section or on any other platform of your publication. Awoke: A Modern Day Green Book 2/13/2019 
 I heard a colored woman on The Today Show speaking about one Green Book, a guide book styled as The Negro Motorist Green-Book, published between 1936 & 1966, which, during less segregated times, helped colored persons navigate through a "dangerous America", as she said. The movement to bring forth colored persons, and many other types of struggles, into the mainstream is important in that it has the potential to expose more of how "dangerous" America, and our world still is. Dangerous through the powers-that-are schemes of prison-for-profit via the sustainable wars on drugs & terror, nationalism & bigotry; our illusion of freedom by means of mass consumerism that ends up destroying third world countries' people, land, and resources - in turn speeding up climate change that will affect our planet in ways we definitely need to resist. All these issues are interconnected in that they are orchestrated by the elite - keeping humans divided & the health of our very planet spiraling out of control. I'm a gay man who has struggled for so many years just to accept myself then be myself amongst family and society in small town U.S.A. This struggle has a direct relationship to me being in prison in Wyoming for less than a cigarettes worth of marijuana (REALLY?!), and it's unwantingly drilled into my head that the first step to "recovery" is to accept the fact that I'm "out of control" on substances, I say unwantingly because every facet of the system doesn't even stop to consider for one second why I sought solace with marijuana in the first place. I'm scared, knowing that I will be released into a hypocritical - The Mans' world - who doesn't take their own advice by admitting its own foibles that keeps humanity teetering on the edge of an abyss on our home, Planet Earth, which is being destroyed - all for the choking of maximum profit - ultimately for the yield of a very small elite group of people (The top eight billionaires have as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population[1], not to forget all the other ultra-rich people and their holdings, and this gap is widening daily). Devastated and fragmented ethnic groups; the LGBT+ community & our supporters; contractors and military personal who have guarded and aided oil fields and/or poppy fields in the Middle East, Afghanistan and southeast Asia; the downtrodden all over the world whose homes and cultures are destroyed by mass consumerism; Women everywhere who strive to erase sexist patriarchies which only serve to negate the power of women; resisters of schools of thought that engender internal and societal strife birthing us into un-natural paradigms - all of us whom are determined to rise above the world that has suppressed us too long have a calling to keep telling how "dangerous" our world still is - even if that is the telling of how dangerous our own countries still are. We - Americans - have such an influence on the rest of the world... if we are going to continue to influence the world on the scale that we do, we need not be afraid of telling how dangerous our countries general practices still are for us & the rest of the world (the first step to recovery). It's more American to speak the truth and accept how interconnected these issues of destruction are than to continue to allow the decaying of our minds, bodies, souls & planet to death leaving in the wake a very turbulent and uncertain world for future generations. As a people we need to stop allowing ourselves to be subdued and quit aiding The Man whose squeezing maximum profit out of life and our planet for the interests of his very small circle. We don't have generations left to make this right. Actual factual history needs to be spoken of freely & a "Green Book" for the modern world needs to be written. 
 [1]. Elliott, Larry (January 15, 2017). "World's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%" The Guardian 
 From the trenches, Michael T. Flores