Friday, August 27, 2010

Get Free From What?

When I speak of getting free I wonder at times if people ask the question, getting free from what? I know for many America represents a place where extreme privilege is birthright and the idea that there is more and that we should strive beyond our own ambitions is insane. However, it is this very mindset that I am seeking to get free from. A mindset that perpetuates selfishness and indifference and makes true change impossible. True freedom cannot be attained without extreme sacrifice and the current American ideology diminishes the importance of sacrifice. So, when I say Let's Get Free I am saying lets break from the apathy and indifference that makes the idea of change nothing more than political jargon to be espoused by those that think revolution is a seasonal occupation that livens up there otherwise cushy lives. Let's become more consciousness and recognize that with consciousness there must come a change in our outlook and our actions. IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

An Apathetic State

How do we struggle against entities that remain invisible? This is the question of the twenty first century as the blatant arm of racism has been replaced by a more devious adaptation that relies on systematic bigotry to keep order while seeking to reserve the luxury of privilege to remain in the hands of a few. This new form of oppression requires that we sharpen our vision to detect the persistent brutality of this invisible monster. We cannot allow for that which remains hidden to lull us into a mind state where we begin to minimize evils presence. America is infested with the disease of racism and the appearance of remission does not mean that we have completely healed from the damages of racism and the ways it has ravaged our democracy. No, it requires that we remain pro-active in the struggle to make America a more just society for everyone. Let's Get Free

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Malcolm X

"Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. Revolutions are never compromising. Revolutions are never based upon negotiations. Revolutions are never based upon any tokenism whatsoever. Revolutions are never even based upon that which is begging a corrupt society or a corrupt system to accept us into it. Revolutions overturn systems. And there is no system on this earth which has proven itself more corrupt, more criminal, than this system that in 1964 still colonizes 22 million African Americans, still enslaves millions of Afro-Americans. There is no system more corrupt than a system that represents itself as the example of freedom, the example of democracy, and can go all over this earth telling other people how to straighten out their house, when you have citizens of this country who have to use bullets if they want to cast ballot."

The Black Revolution

Malcolm X