"We need to be FREE people, not FREED people."

Are you free?...or are you freed?

Freed people are not free people. If you are freed, then you are such because SOMEONE ELSE freed you. You did NOT free yourself. To be a free person is to be free of the mental, physical spiritual and emotional chains that constrain you as a human entity. A lyric from Outkast off of their 1998 album, Aquemini (one of my personal favorite artists & albums) says, "Can't worry 'bout what another nigga think, that's liberation and baby I want it..."...Liberation...free from worldly evils that slow down your personal development and seek to put a cap on your soul's potential. Free from conformity.

A few days ago, I made a post about how black (and American, in general) females are subjected to attacks on their self-esteem to the point that they feel necessary to compensate with material things and false beauty. However, this is not just true with females. This is true with American PEOPLE. People spend countless amounts of money on things they they don't need. Things that don't even seem logical to want. Hundreds of thousands of jewelry? Expensive cars? For what? What purpose does it serve? There's enough wealth in the world for no person to be homeless and starving. Why would you want all of that for yourself?? In return, the people that are WITHOUT see this gluttony on television, magazines, the internet, etc...and obsess over it. People who have been deprived of a decent living for a long period of time long for things that are supposed "signs" of wealth----If someone was to forbid you of chocolate for 15 years, while you witnessed other indulge in it, you would think that chocolate is a valuable as gold, when actually its not. LEARN TO LIVE SIMPLE, PEOPLE. Lusting over material items only makes other people rich. For a person's mind to be completely fixated over..."having the best shoes"..."latest fashion"..."hottest car/rims"..."fitting an image" is giving the people who create/decides these things POWER over you. Simplifying your life goes against everything that the anglo-american society is about.

To be free is to embrace your individuality. To be free is to not conform to societal standards. I hear the uppity Negroes--the black bourgeoisie--(that gets on all 3 of my nerves--but I'll save it for my next post), who are Anglo-Americanized individuals, speak as if black people have "arrived"---whatever that means... They are prime examples of American comfort--people who've been bought out to shut up and stay content. With the resources they have, they should be teaching and leading. Whether you drive a Mercedes-Benz or a Ford Escort, an injustice anywhere is still a threat to justice everywhere and as a black man, I know that the injustices that my race (and the human race) face are far too frequent and overwhelming for me to be content. Race is an illusion meant to divide and conquer. The sooner that people realize this, the faster that people will be able to progress as a whole.

Taking it a step further, the lust for women/men, sex, approval from people (no matter what position they hold!), music, drugs, alcohol, TELEVISION and the garbage it spews...its all mental (and some physical) slavery. How about corporate/network media? Just because of who they are, that does not mean that you should not question what they report and why they report it. Know the facts and make/trust your own judgments. The bible says "put your trust in NO man." A french proverb says "mistrust is the mother of certainty." If something doesn't seem right and doesn't make since, then chances are that there's a REASON why. Free yourself from these poisons meant to keep you stationary. You should be able to navigate freely through your life without feeling obliged to unreasonable constraints.

It's hard...Lord knows its hard...I'm working on it myself, as I am not completely there. But, I will be. No excuses.

"Shake that load off, shake that load off..."