Unbreakable Chains

So I guess you have been trapped in confinement against your will.

I guess you have been beaten for breathing too loudly.

I guess you glorify in the idea of being urinated on to entertain other individuals.

I guess that you enjoy being stacked on top of others while enduring feces dropping on you periodically.

I guess you enjoy being shackled in chains that determine your every direction.

Evidently we all do!

We call each other niggas and we label each other as niggas.

This word is used so much I wonder if younger generations will mistake it for scholarly terminology.

Many of our families have been affected by the transformation of the economy.

Some of us have had to send family members down South to earn better wages to support the remainder of the family up North.

Americans that migrate to save the status of their families are commended, but Mexicans who do the same and migrate to America are classified as spics and unwanted company – but why?

This is simply because we are trapped in unbreakable chains that support ignorance.

Why is it that when a white male wears baggy clothing or when a black male wears a suit, things are viewed as being out of the ordinary?

This happens because we all place colors on everything.

We associate the idea of being successful and wealthy with white people.

We associate the idea of being misguided and poor with black people.

With these chains, we are only hurting ourselves.

It’s time to break away from the idea that just because things were done a certain way in the past they have to be done the same way now.

Many of us claim that we long for change; but in all reality, we still continue to lug these unbreakable chains around.

We connect color with crime; we connect it with media.

Whenever someone is murdered, the tendency is to immediately link the crime with someone of a minority race.

Furthermore, the ignorance doesn’t end there; sometimes the news tends to take it a step further.

Whenever there is a crime committed by a minority, there sometimes is no hesitation to provide a full description of the individual who committed the crime.

People throw away the unbreakable chains.

These chains are forcing younger generations to grow on the idea that the stereotypes are the truth and that the truth is deceitful.

These chains have young women proud to be identified as female dogs and exploited by numerous men.

These chains have women thinking that they have real men when they are able to tell others that their men is or has spent time in prison.

We are enslaved to these chains, and it’s time to break free.

One for the week: “At that time I pleaded with the LORD…”