i set the bar pretty low for what i expected from the regime/government/politicians because the lawmakers and babykissers have not been of the common people, those of us on the grind trying to figure out how to go to school-pay the rent-feed the kids-buy shoes-make $3000 in a week when you make $9 per/hour. i have realized that for quite some time my life is a part of a ratio for them to use to justify some bill or some law or some war. yeah yeah yeah...i am a statistic, we are all statistics...to them. more importantly what are we to each other?
despite everything we want to see there are and have been those who are in power and they want to stay in power. the current social climate is eerily reminiscent of the early years of the nazi’s germany: institutional discrimination and incarceration of the less desirable, propaganda used to vilify and justify brutality and domination, reforming education to teach slanted ideas, nationalists ideology that can not be questioned, use of military against civilians. police violence against civilians, especially black men, the attacks on civilians taking their first amendment right of freedom of speech and assembly, the criminalization of queer people through laws dictating social gender identity, creating ghettos and using intimidation and force to police the people living there...i don’t see freedom.
the reaction to black lives matters and the riots occurring in major cities throughout the united states is appalling. i am used to seeing the redneck, cross burners justifying police violence on black people, but to see black people justifying this hatred is shocking. the truth is racism is as real today as it was in 1814, as a matter of fact it might even be more dangerous.
the racial division in the us was an intentional design to break apart the power of the slave industry. In 1663 the slaves-black and white-huddled together in the woods of gloucester county, va, planning to a revolt for their freedom. There were many more slaves than aristocracy. they would work together, march from house to house until they arrived at the mansion of landowner sir william berkeley. unfortunately, their plans were discovered before they could gather the weapons necessary for rebellion. the attempted rebellion did have long lasting effects on the pragmatic history of the united states. the land owners realized that the power of the united slaves would be devastating to their position, so they created a division based on the most evident physical feature they could think of-skin color. the white slaves, now called indentured servants were given more authority,
sneetches, leeches & the like: them vs us
-grace