Young, Black, And Free In America

As a young black man in America, if you’re to believe that you are, “in reality,” free, then one way to help validate that thought of consciousness is to examine our country’s hierarchy in terms of what Black culture owns, comparable to what its White counterpart owns. To the contrary, if you continue to believe that you’re truly free in America, then one might suppose that “freedom” is indeed merely a state of mind regardless of what real-life experiences suggest and/or might prove otherwise. Moreover, it doesn’t take a sociologist or psychologist to figure out that indoctrination is a preferred tool when it comes to mitigating the brutal effects of oppression, encouraging those that are oppressed to believe that, in fact, they’re not. Likewise, if one believes that the vestiges and awful effects of American slavery are fictions of the mind for Blacks in America, then I’d strongly recommend that they revisit America’s untainted history, in that something has been terribly misconceived along the way. In short, freedom for Black folks in America would be equivalent to white privilege for White folks in America, and it would replicate that concept in whatever way it evolves advantageously. Are Black folk free in America, really?

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