Mind Enslavement

Slavery was apart of the building of the United States and though we have abolibished it does not mean it has disappeared. Like energy it has transfered from one type of slavery to another. Instead of big iron shackles on our legs, arms and neck they have placed it around our minds. When blacks were in slavery they were forbidden to be taught how to read and write so they can keep them as they saw them, as property. And today, instead of taking full advantage of the oppotunity that many slaves didn't have, we bring ourselves down by dropping out of school, getting poor grades, trying to chase an unreachable goal or living life to much in the fast lane and in the end it catches up with you. And this doesn't even just involve blacks. Teens period have not set a higher goal than to live life in the now and do what I want to do. But I think this has a lot to do with what we as teens take into our systems.

Music and pop culture has put such a thick chain around us that we don't even want to learn or at least just want to reap the benefits without doing the work that comes along with it. All tv and things of that nature shows us or we hear about is material possessions. We see the fast money, girls and cars and are brainwashed into thinking that rapping, being an athlete, actress, entertainer etc., is the only way to make it. And its not.

But to tie it all together. My point is because of the past we as a people have moved from one slavery to another. Whether it be in our culture, to the government, or even to people still, it is a state of mind that we have been set in to belittle us and keep us under control. To keep us so preoccupied by the things that aren't really important so that we can't see what's wrong with our "United" States. To keep us from asking the simple question....why?