Slavery as we choose to understand it is over, but the slavery that we refuse to admit to still exist. This never-ending slavery is the slavery of the mind. Our ancestors were released from their physical bondage and we ended up in mental bondage. This bondage is caused by our lower desires. Our lower desires being our hatred, envy, lust, and jealousy of one another. This bondage is caused from a lack of understanding ourselves. To free ourselves from this bondage, we must start by freeing our minds. We must free ourselves from the stereotypes that are placed over our heads. We must stop addressing one another by abhorrent names such as nigga. We must play more, and argue less. We must cut back on music, and read more books. We must live within our means, and not by others standards. We must be more self-suffient and less dependent. We must start somewhere. We must free our hearts to free our souls. We must hate less and love more. We must listen more and talk less. We must learn responsibility for our actions. We must re-discover phrases such as, Im Sorry, and Thank You. We must become positive role models for our little people instead of allowing the television to do it for us. If we spend more time acting like human beings, well spend less time treating one another like animals. The only way we can sucessfully free oueselves from this mental slavery is to educate ourselves. Educate ourselves in these schools and universities. Educate ourselves to the struggles of our ancestors. By this, we can stop history from repeating itself. Knowledge is the key to unlock the manacles from around our train of thinking. Let us not make the efforts of leaders such as; Mary McLeod Bethune, Richard Allen, Fredrick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DeBois, and Harriet Tubman, be in vain due to our ignorance assatashakur.org/
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:09:38 +0000
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