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Black Folks Are Free in America

on December 11, 2018

 

As I meditate on this weekend’s commemoration of the East Saint Louis race riots, I think on how far we have come 100 years later, I am thinking on who are the culprits today, I am thinking on just how FREE I am today.

Dr. King spoke on 2 Americas and I wrote on 7 Americas (1%, Affluent Whites, Middle Class Whites, Poor Whites, Minorities, Blacks and Poor Blacks).

Today we are FREE they say and I ask How? When? Where? When?

Yep we are FREE to attend schools where our children are given an education less than inferior.

Yep we are FREE to reside in communities where we are inhaling and exhaling hazardous chemicals, drive by standing waters and road kill guts are ALWAYS laying as we travel to and from and inhale and exhale that.

Yep we are FREE to see dilapidated buildings as condos.

Yep we are FREE to drive down streets with holes so big that once our automobiles hit, THAT IS ITFOR THE WORKING POOR.

Yep we are FREE to be ticketed for NOT being able to pay tickets.

Yep we are FREE to work and still be unable to eat healthy nutrition.

Yep we are FREE to see those in decision making positions and executive positions steal money from the very poor people it is meant and it is like O WELL.

Yep we are FREE to work long, hard and STILL have no medical coverage.

Yep we are FREE to choose between poverty or success .

Yep we are FREE to watch hurt, pain, lack and say NOT MY ISSUE.

Yep we are FREE to watch our children suffer because we are suffering.

Yep we are FREE to attend religious institutions that tell us to KEEP ON HOLDING ON CAUSE GOD WILL MAKE A WAY

Yep we are FREE to see crime as the norm to the point our children are numb.

Yep we are FREE and GRATEFUL TOO!

Yep we are FREE to see all these things because well #FergusonTaughtMe to observe and see and question and IT IS EVERWHERE IN AMERICA where we are zoned.

BUT YET, WE ARE FREE!

 


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