Essay About Black People And Independence Day

It Is Not Our Independence Day, Black Person
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Independence Day
America has its “Independence Day”; however, we, Black people, have yet to have ours. We are still dependent on external sources and resources for our sustenance and livelihood. Many of us are on welfare, directly dependent on the White government. Most are working in jobs, dependent on the paychecks their bosses decide to give them with the amounts others have denoted. And this is only material or monetary. We have yet to have our internal “independence day”; we have yet to be free of Euro thinking and the chains placed on our ancestors and on ourselves. We continue to be trapped behind masks of superimposed and externally constructed “blackness” or even deliberately constructed “whiteness” or supposed masculinity or femininity, etc. Many today are not themselves and dont allow themselves to be themselves, to set themselves free and no longer be self conscious but be one with the flow of earth and energy and love, just allowing themselves to flow outward and then inward, as the breath. This is the case for nearly all Americans and especially the case for nearly all Black Americans, for we (also the Native Americans) have been deliberately disconnected and estranged from our history and culture, from large parts of our selves. The self is an amalgamation of ancestry, community, experiences, thoughts, physiology, emotions, and, most of all, spirit. Black people have been cut off from nearly all of this – from our ancestry, community, and consciousness of spirit; our thoughts are molded by a European system through inundation of media and systemic altering macro messages; our emotions are molded by our thoughts and much of our experience has been sculpted by the greater system. This leaves us in prison, in chains. Our selves are not free. We must liberate our selves from the system, dive into ourselves (both individually and collectively), and then arise holistically – mentally healthy, thinking for ourselves in a growth-oriented way (both for us as individuals and for others – all we come in contact with); emotionally healthy – loving in every moment, feeling and showing compassion, feeling each emotion and appreciating them but expressing them in love; physically healthy – living naturally, living long lives, living with energy and electricity, being active and consuming whole and natural foods; spiritually healthy – with a constant conscious connection to the All and thus, to all (every person, every being, every plant and tree, every animal, etc.); socially healthy – with the mindset of the collective and striving for both individual and community solidarity in every interaction; materially healthy – monetarily independent and able to give charity to others and for posterity, however, all of this is done placing materialism in perspective and knowing that it is a tool to be used for sustenance, growth, and living, not for