Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Unrevised and Uncensored...Comment or Not...But hear my roar!
Lauryn Hill speaks the truth. She doesnt try to sugar coat reality she just tells things the way they are. She truely inspire me as a woman first and formost but more importantly as a black woman. Its through her music, movies, writings, and poems that she delivers her teachings. One song on her album from MTV UNPLUGGED is the song "I Get Out". In this song she discusses how people are caught up in the ideal way of living that they dont get to really live. She gets this message out especially in her chorus "I get out, Oh I get out of all your boxes, I get out, Oh, you can't hold me in these chains, I'll get out, Oh I want out of social bondage, Knowin' my condition , Oh, is the reason I must change". Society keeps us as people in this bondage were we have to be a certain way think a certain way and dress a particular way to be accepted. Not only do they make us act a particular way but they condition our minds in a way that keeps certain groups of people down and raise other groups of people up. Just to think about the injustice in society really sickens me. It so sad that it takes thousands and thousands of movements just to change a single thing that all the time seems to just get corrupted again by the evils of "America" society. I am so fucking tired of being called a Damn "African American". Africans were brought to America as slaves . Okay, we gain freedom which was a tragic struggle to overcome segregation to be put back into segregation seperating us from the "Regular American" class to "African American". I believe that "African American" is just another name for the "N' word. I will keep on seeking freedom through my own studies and not solely on "American" educational studies. America was built and carried on the sweaty backs of slaves a.k.a "AFRICAN AMERICAN" and they continue to walk all over us hiding behind the law and a bunch of stupid documents.
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We are "society" - we can change it- that's what gets me about Americans' complaining and bitching . We are actually in control of ourselves. Each and every individual can do something to lessen the burden. Because we all perpetuate it. All of the negativity- We all contribute to the pigeonholing and the stereotypes and drive for perfection and the fast pace and the fuel prices and the media's obsession with celebutantes and, lastly but never leastly, our racial and gender roles. When a beautiful strong woman such as yourself stands up and says "fuck that" and means it, walks away from the bs to form her own identity and her own world, that's just a little bit of the evil in our society crumbling.
I find it much easer to be postive then negative. Never trying to hold one action on a certian group or race but the individual that did that action. Maybe because America is such a place of comformity that is why people sterotype? You know because there is no individuality in dress or actions,for the most part, people seem to sterotype all people into groups. We should all try to be are true selfs not caring if we will be accepted because that is when true change comes from the inside.
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