Summy
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Forget the politics, what does this mean to all of us? WHO is this for? For who is this more than a victory?
Not long ago the repressive culture in America hit its peak. For those who were lynched and never thought they would see the day of freedom let alone the day of equality, they win. For those who were sent into a spirral of self guilt for the colour of their skin, for them, its more than a win. For those who died by the colour of their skin and lived by the faith of their humanity, they won today. For every black child repressed into a community of drugs and gang violence, they have hope. For every young black man who doesn?t understand why their own community have accepted the repressive language of slavery, they are comforted.
The repressiveness of America came not from just the public but from the same government a black man now controls. I have been accused in the past of being too racial sensitive and very anti white in many ways, but this is beyond assoications. In Scott v Sandford, Justice Taney the person who delivered the opinion said words that blacks till this day, November 4th had engraved in their skin. He called blacks the ?unfortunate race?. Claimed that the black man had ?no rights? the white man was bound to respect.
Centuries of slavery, of death, charred bodies, and lynched innocents. The decades of miniorites being hosed down, to blacks being spit on. Even as we celebrate, the repressed minorities of the education system, to the piling of minorities into a sports arena for safety. The drugs being pumped into a race, and the action being glorified from within. To a country whose ideals were admirable but whose practices fell very short of them.
From the death, to the repression, America was at the mercy of its own narration. BUT on Novemeber 4th 2008, all of us witnessed the most ultimate retribution of those acts. A victory for few, but JUSTICE for many.
Not long ago the repressive culture in America hit its peak. For those who were lynched and never thought they would see the day of freedom let alone the day of equality, they win. For those who were sent into a spirral of self guilt for the colour of their skin, for them, its more than a win. For those who died by the colour of their skin and lived by the faith of their humanity, they won today. For every black child repressed into a community of drugs and gang violence, they have hope. For every young black man who doesn?t understand why their own community have accepted the repressive language of slavery, they are comforted.
The repressiveness of America came not from just the public but from the same government a black man now controls. I have been accused in the past of being too racial sensitive and very anti white in many ways, but this is beyond assoications. In Scott v Sandford, Justice Taney the person who delivered the opinion said words that blacks till this day, November 4th had engraved in their skin. He called blacks the ?unfortunate race?. Claimed that the black man had ?no rights? the white man was bound to respect.
Centuries of slavery, of death, charred bodies, and lynched innocents. The decades of miniorites being hosed down, to blacks being spit on. Even as we celebrate, the repressed minorities of the education system, to the piling of minorities into a sports arena for safety. The drugs being pumped into a race, and the action being glorified from within. To a country whose ideals were admirable but whose practices fell very short of them.
From the death, to the repression, America was at the mercy of its own narration. BUT on Novemeber 4th 2008, all of us witnessed the most ultimate retribution of those acts. A victory for few, but JUSTICE for many.
