July 4th

I looked back last year to see if I had written a 4th of july entry and I hadn't. I talk alot about slavery and how you are just another slave. It is exemplified today in America more than any other day. The best speech I have ever seen was actually written by a slvae a day after the fourth. Frederick Douglass spoke in Rochester July 5th 1852

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy...

Do you hear the echoes of this speech or has history forgotten it. Please take this out of context, I"m not talking about the plite of african americans in today's society, I'm not talking about the injustices of the americas throughout history. I want you to see that you are a slave to large multinational corporations, religious zealots and corrupt politicians. More than ever you are a slave. You do not own anything, you live in an apartment barely paying your bills, you own loans for school, cars, property. All of which can be taken away from you in an instant. Eminent domain now belongs to the corporations. They can take over an until town if needs be.

When will you wake from your sleep. Walking around in a day dream, zombified by the television, or should I say programmed. Culture at a stand still.

Order always goes to choas. You try to organize everything, it is your nature, but this is not nature's way. You try to control things you cannot control and the things you can control you feel helpless against. It makes me laugh. Like ants in a farm doing your job aimlessly living for no real purpose but for the entertainment of the watchers. Reality tv kind of exemplfies this. Plucked from obscurity to infamy. Those people are not ready to evolve to the next level. Most of you are not ready for the next level, you look for something to propel you. Instead of trusting in yourself. Pathetic and weak you pray for something to come and help you...

..it never will...