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I pledge Allegiance to The New American Dream
T.W : Mentions of sexual abuse, gun violence, lack of bodily autonomy/abortion rights &racism
When you are the sole
Survivor of a train wreck
It is not uncommon to feel
The immense guilt of
Being spared.
Always
Wondering why it was
You,
And not anyone else.
With each passing second
Wishing there was someway.
Anyway.
To bring the other’s back.
As you sit back
And watch the devastating impacts.
Is that what this feeling is?
Because
I have been watching
This train
Slowly crash
Since I stood
Three feet and nine inches tall.
Not a care in the world.
Young, wild and free.
As
I held his hand.
And I have never been able
To understand
If it was my fault...
Or his.
The train.
Screeching. Grinding metal. Deafening.
We went from
Holding hands,
To his lap,
To his bed.
To my body.
Before I learned how to properly communicate,
I learned that I was not safe,
When a man from the house next door
Grabbed my waist
And told me wanted to
“F**k” me.
As he proceeded
To take my clothes off.
Feasting eyes.
Wandering hands.
Lustful sweat dripping down
His forehead.
I’ll never forget the
First time
I saw true rage
In my mother’s eyes.
When she learned that
Her now twenty three year old
Knew what the word
F**k meant
At just five years old.
And then she learned
Where I first heard it.
I was never allowed
To wear shorts back then.
Only dresses and skirts.
Maybe that man next door simply
Thought
I WAS JUST ASKING FOR IT.
Now I only wear
Jean shorts and cargo pants
And I always wear a
Belt to make it harder
For them to be so easily
Stripped away from my body.
Never again.
Once I first said
What had happened
Out loud
I started taking classes
To learn
How to protect Myself.
This train was well on it’s way to ruin.
Tiny hazel eyes...
Watching
Death Live.
My parents kept
Crying and hugging
Me that day.
Apologizing profusely
For having never known
And for failing to keep me safe
From only 300 feet away.
I met death face to face
Before I knew it’s name.
At age twelve
I finally learned
To close my eyes
Pitching them
Shut
As this train started
Striking. Shaking. Breaking.
Breath taking.
You can’t think
About it really
Or it will tear you to shreds.
Each time
They talk about more
People dead and
Their bodily autonomy
Stolen
From men who use their power to
Use and Abuse.
They come into
Our villages,
Our towns,
Our cities,
Our neighborhoods,
Our streets,
Our homes,
Our lives.
Until they are close enough
To think they can
Penetrate our sacred bodies
And
Shoot down our life’s
Greatest potential.
All without any accountability or repercussions.
Coming to America
I pledged allegiance to a flag
Knowing full well
That politicians
Will choose to protect
The second amendment
Before they choose to
Protect little
Smiley faced innocent kids
Like me.
The train derailing.
I can’t even open
Any of my social media
Without crying .
I stopped trying.
What’s the use
Fighting?
Why didn’t someone...
Anyone...
Stop Him?
He just kept lying.
No
Means
No
But maybe he hadn’t
Learned what it meant
Before he learned
He could lure the cute
Blonde haired kid
Into his retched compound.
And now I say
One Nation Under God
Damn.
They really do take that part seriously
And Not
For manifest destiny.
As much as controlling
Women,
LGBTQ+ people,
And Children’s
Autonomy.
Corpses
Have more control
Over their Bodies
Than me.
Why am I crying?
I got to move to the
Greatest Nation In The World.
A Global Superpower.
A f*cking Freedom machine.
Fighting more wars against
More enemies
With more military funding.
Indivisible.
Immigrants still chasing that
“American Dream”
And apparently
We don’t have
The heart to tell them
That it is not what it seems..
They will
Never
Give you a seat at their table.
Afraid your
Beautiful Brown and Black skin
Will stain their
Preciously pressed
White napkins.
They’ll kill you first
And be able to
Get away with it since
Your menacing melanin
Made you look dangerous
To them.
The train tipping and flipping
I feel sick again
I feel sick again
I feel sick again
Suddenly
I realize
That my life will be held captive
No matter where I go.
As I struggle with $1000′s worth of
Monthly medicine.
Nobody told me that getting sick
Is only for the rich.
I see my friends rationing insulin
But I earn less than them
And somehow that makes me lucky
Because
I don’t have enough money
At my job
Because the time I
“Take off”
For my mental health, sick day’s or for doctor’s appointments
Makes me just poor enough
That this country’s flimsy
State healthcare programs
Do cover some stuff.
WITH LIBERITY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
That train crashes.
I imagine myself
Standing in an airport
With a visa in my hand.
Sights set on a
New land
Pursuing a
Safer and higher education,
An owned home,
And a partner who adores me,
An amazing family.
And as though that
Didn’t already make me the most luckiest
Person in the world...
I would get back the rights
To my own body.
Not afraid that one more
Hospital visit will put me on
The streets permanently
And WHEN
And IF
I decide to carry a baby...
If that’s right
For me...
I can send them off
On their first day of school
With a kiss and a
“Have a good day!” wish
Knowing they’re
Safe enough
In that space to learn
Without
Their
Bulletproof vest,
And I’ll teach them respect
BEFORE ANY GOD DAMN PLEDGE !
The guilt washes over me...
I feel them on my shoulders...
All the other kids that were there
In that dreaded compound...
All the other Americans...
Still trapped within the borders.
As I travel across the sea
To another new land
Because I decided it was about damn time
That I stop purely imagining things
And actually
Start chasing a
Better Life,
Like my ancestors before me.
This Is
The New
American Dream.
#childsexualabusesurvivor#abortion#prochoice#gun violence#keep your laws off my body#us healthcare system#immigration#americanracism#immigrants#mentalhealthinamerica#gettingsickinamerica#women in america#lgbtq plus people in america#children in america#people of color in america#what the fuck is happening#roe v wade#rapidlyspiralingoutofcontrol#2022
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here's a remarkable article about the 'Atlanta Speedway'. Let me know all of you guys what do you thinks about it!
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Stu’s beautifully restored FORD F100 Bronco rolling on 15x8 American Racing AR172 BAJA AND 33” BF Goodrich KO2 All Terrains. @nbtyres @americanracing @americanracingau @wheels_aus @bfgoodrichtires @bfgoodrichau (at NBtyres - Northern Beaches Wheel & Tyre Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdlC0m4pn0w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Prince: Emerging Black Identities in the 1980s
Breaking Stereotypes, Defining Black Excellence
Every few decades, a musical artist registers on our cultural radar that redefines a sound of a generation. See Taylor Swift. In the 1980s, that artist was Prince Rogers Nelson. Born in Minneapolis, MN, Prince released his second album, Controversy, in 1981. Only twenty-three at the time, he captured the imaginations of critics and funk fans alike. But the nation-at-large was not ready for an “album posters show[ing] Prince in a shower stall, half-naked and dripping wet, posed next to a small crucifix.” Expressions of black sexuality, as proliferated by whites. Those who have held ignorant, fucked up, and racist views, prove how the fetishization of blackness since first Africans touched terra firma.
Malcolm X said, and Denzel Washington made famously, “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock.Plymouth Rock landed on us.” X’s racial metaphor was a reinterpretation of DuBois’ metaphor of the veil. Both men, having had access to information that negated white-perceived notions of biological differences between the races, could have also applied the same philosophy to gender. Labeling race and gender do nothing more than cloak individuals by controlling and setting societal norms, while also moderating and moralizing personal behavior. Labels like male and female or black and white are not intuitively defined but are learned patterns of behavior set by their Anglo-American parents. Those teachings firmly reinforced the fear, racism, sexism, misogyny, anti-intellectualism, selfishness, and entitlement that whites have enjoyed since the rape and genocide of Indigenous peoples.
Anglo-Americans were waking from their 1970s slumber as a certain slack-jawed president, awed by the “disgusting” cultural events of the 1970s (gays, disco), promised “Morning in America” at the decade’s open. Luckily, President Frederick D. Roosevelt had already signed into law a policy that forbade racial discrimination in government services including contractors and all other government-contracted agencies. The impact of the law raised the incomes of many black families. As Black Americans continued to gain strides in the middle-class, Anglo-Americans’ assholes pinched even tighter.
In the wake of the civil rights struggle, fissures grew in the black community as more blacks, mirroring the trajectory of their white counterparts, fled the ghetto for the relative safety of the suburbs. Fearing the encroaching darkness, whites (and some blacks) found political comfort in the only place they knew to look, in the arms of their white daddy, Ronald Reagan. Burning disco records were not just backlash against the music itself. Anglo-Americans who sat at the top of the nation’s music industry revealed received ideas about the black and feminized culture it produced.
Steve Dahl is famous for one thing alone, blowing up disco records. In 1979, the Chicago disc jockey promoted an event that was designed to fill seats at a double-header at Comiskey Park, but it “turned into a mass anti-disco movement from which disco never recovered.” After factoring in the musical artist, music genre and popular culture, and trending “street” styles, America has, throughout history, been gender-coded by its space and time as either feminine or masculine. Disco, heavy with black, female, and gay participation as both musician and spectator, was received and gendered feminine. Therefore, anything or anyone who claimed association with disco was accused of being a part of a secretive, gay, black cabal whose sole goal was to tear asunder the fabric of our great, white, paternalistic nation.
Out of Dahl’s ashes, rose a beautiful, black, sexually ambiguous Prince. Nelson George wrote that “no black performer since Little Richard had toyed with the heterosexual sensibilities of Black America so brazenly” It is true that Prince’s performances of gender and race were rooted in a deep history of black artistic expression, but like his slow-to-appear successor, his popularity was predicated on his ability to influence the social agenda. Unlike Little Richard, however, Prince had MTV (Music Television). Although resistant to incorporating black acts into its line-up, MTV would prove to be the greatest tool for disseminating popular culture’s blueprint.
The 1980s stand as a decade of massive change in the United States. Back scholarship on race and gender were being seriously studied. Reaping the rights that Anglo-Americans had stolen from them, Black Americans entered more institutes of higher learning aided by Affirmative Action and desegregation. Middle-class blacks seized greater control over our own images unmitigated by stares from Anglo-Americans. Just as DuBois had predicted, the talented tenth proved responsible for changing Anglo-America’s perception of what, exactly, it meant to be black in their own country.
Prince led the musical pack with his gender-bending offerings echoing the early years of David Bowie’s career. Prince blurred the lines between masculine and feminine clearly upsetting the binaries held by most Americans. And he was black? Prince confirmed what Anglo-Americans already feared. After lifetimes of fear-mongering and pearl-clutching, their worst dreams came true. Their Anglo-American daughters were all about Prince. They loved him. They even wanted to (gasp) fuck him! And that’s what happened. White girls drove all into Black American females’ lane. That’s why we’re a nation of multicultural/biracial individuals. Coffee colored, indeed.
What is most interesting about Prince is that he defied preconceived notions of what blackness and, black sexuality were. Unlike Michael Jackson who refused to acknowledge his sexuality (Elvis’ daughter? Really?), Prince refused to be veiled by his audience or critics. In the lyrics to his song “Controversy,” Prince asks, “Am I black or white/Am I straight or gay?” By asking others to clarify and define who he is, he exerts full control by refusing to be limited by what those questions infer. As a nation built upon divisive racial and gender practices, we have been conditioned to view others based upon exterior representations of self.
Similar to DuBois’ urgent call for the black community to control or own their images, Prince had already established a tight grip on his self-image by the time he became the youngest producer in the history of Warner Bros. Records. This “first” was largely ignored due to the mainstream press’ obsession with categorizing the artist not based on his musical abilities, but on their perceptions of gender and race. Shipler writes, “The notion that blacks are not as smart, not as competent, not as energetic as whites is woven so tightly into American culture it cannot be untangled from everyday thought,” These ideas are exactly what DuBois’ argued veiled his people.
Prince’s image becomes an obsession with white critics leaving both blacks and whites to question his authenticity. “When he's off, his bombast and swagger seem flimsy and forced, a cheap charade,” wrote one critic in a review for the Chicago Sun-Times that referred to Prince’s music as a “mongrel mix of creamy ballads and brittle funk” before calling the artist a “silly poseur.” Because whites have traditionally been in charge of the media they controlled both how whites saw blacks and, worse, how many blacks saw themselves. But, again, Prince challenged the veil by presenting himself precisely as he wanted.
It has been over 100 years since DuBois declared the problems of the 20th Century would be racially motivated. He was prescient, indeed. With blacks entering the middle-class in record numbers, however, racial veils parted once gaining control of black representation. On the micro-level, Prince refused to allow the color of his skin to keep him from expanding personal boundaries. Anglo-Americans, except for some white females and white, gay-identified individuals, despised Prince for the same reasons they roundly ignored Ernie Isley. They played better than they could. Anglo-Americans have never produced any music that did not exist in black communities. We invented soloing, for instance, something that is credited today to white musicians. Prince’s accomplishments paved the way for the many blacks who wanted to live their truth.
While Prince reveals the emerging identities of blackness that appeared in the 1980s-today, there are several other examples from R&B to punk. He is a symbol of Black American freedom. Prince, of course, went on to become one of the nation’s most controversial artists of the 20th Century. Constantly toying with his image, he mitigated opportunities of veiling by successfully counter-veiling (revealing) his critics as homophobic and/or racist. Like DuBois before him, Prince knew that “life is just a game/we’re all the same” freeing himself from racial and gender stereotypes. Whether consciously or not, Prince understood the power of history, not just remembering it but creating it too.
#prince#miscegenation#race#americanracism#blackness#whiteness#blackidentity#music#musician#funky#racism#black history is american history#blackhistoryeverymonth#white thievery
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Sidetracked during YouTube browsing to find vintage footage of American boxer, Jack Johnson. I first came across the name many years ago in an excellent encyclopedia of the 20th century (which sadly, I have never located since).
The only details that I knew back then subsisted of Johnson beating white opponents, and the call for a “Great White Hope” to defeat him.
Later I learned that he had been penalised under the Mann Act for transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. However, this punishment had a more racial import, as the woman in question was white. Johnson was pardoned in 2018 by President Trump.
This footage is astonishing. First of all, Johnson’s fights occurred at the dawn of the 20th century, so the fact we even have this footage is a miracle. Next, it is one thing to read of a heroic boxer, his image much embroidered by hero-worshippers and himself-- but quite another to see him in person.
We see both how he was treated as a sensation, usually by white American observers, and his own apparent hesitancy in some camera shots. He had a big smile, which is striking, given the sheer lack of dignity afforded to any black man of his time. And his physique was as impressive as pictures suggest.
The footage of the fights themselves inspire both awe and unease. Every time Johnson gained the upper hand and won, you can sense the bitterness and tension in a largely white American audience, which, according to newspapers, led to race rioting afterwards. Today, it is astonishing and repugnant to many that such a result could occur.
Back in the early 20th century, when men and women like Johnson would literally be relegated to the back of any place regardless of fame, this was commonplace. We must always remember not to return to such irrational and repugnant behaviour.
Astonishing footage, a must watch-- even for non-boxing fans like myself.
#jackjohnson#americanhistory#americanboxers#jimcrowlaws#boxingring#racism#americanracism#blackamericanhistory#africanamerican#famousafricanamericans#segregation#racial segregation#injustice#civilrights
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What feelings does this image of a bar of soap stir? #blackmemorabilia #racism #americanracism https://www.instagram.com/p/CRwIZ5GlRSY/?utm_medium=tumblr
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If you get a chance. Check out this POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY ON ORIGINS OF RACISM IN AMERICA WHAT DID YOU THINK? WE CAN EXCHANGE THOUGHTS AND TALK ABOUT IT. THE DOOR 🚪IS OPEN https://youtu.be/2EfmwA1hR0I. #RACISM #HISTORY #americanracism #lynching #massincarceration #civilwar https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5cWvKpokW/?igshid=1rm2wtpwmjubb
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Racism drives American value and it's proved again. Afro-American George Floyd was mercilessly treated by white American police, Floyd was groaning and repeatedly saying "I can't breathe" to the white officer. But on daylight he was murdered. What the justice Black protest has received? Just Four Minneapolis police officers were fired, a day after a bystander's cell phone video captured one of them kneeling on the neck of an unarmed black man. And if there was no proof, the white Police would roaming proudly as a free American. So American judicial system just fired fours police officers is that enough justice! Democratic value implicates it's a criminal case which must bring the culprits to the court and prosecute them according to the law’s, the citizen will viewed your due process how do your handle local, State, and Federal. So United States is a democratic country with equal law! #blacklivesmatter, #AmericanRacism, #racismagainstblack #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd https://www.instagram.com/p/CAu0wk3g9HK/?igshid=6hs6a4yh3ca3
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #americanhistory #transatlanticslavetrade #segregation #yourprivilegeisshowing legeisshowing #history #americanracism #bbqbecky #africantradition #africanspirituality #atrs #reminder #colonization #onepeople #onehumanfamily #privilege #checkyourprivilege #equality #equalrights #civilrights #blackpeoplebuiltamerica https://www.instagram.com/p/B8W08O6nPF4/?igshid=cxp8u2ldd8f9
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When California tried to ban black people... This week's Black History Monday. https://youtu.be/xMfjGCg3H7s #californiahistory #americanracism #americasracism #americasracism #blackhistorymonday #awakeningfrequency https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ynuxsA3xu/?igshid=8j69yzfr2dqu
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#Repost @slyngstad_cartoons ・・・ Today's #inktober word is #long which I used to highlight the history of racism behind Trump's response to the NFL protests. • #inktober2017 #nflprotest #nfl #thursdaynightfootball #colinkaepernick #kaepernick #imwithkap #staywoke #blacklivesmatter #blm #alllivesmatter #racism #systemicracism #trumptwitter #tcot #trumpisaracist #impeachtrump #takeaknee #taketheknee #patriots #buccaneers #racist #racismsucks #americanterrorism #americanracism
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🔥🔥🔥🎤🎤🎧🎵🎶💯 #LetsConversate #Emcees #rappers #chh #kicklife #WeAcceptEBT #teamJesus #HipHopdads #boombaphiphop #TrapGospel #ChristianRapper #HGLG #Kicklife #streetministry #prayforhiphop #IAmTonyWHOA #smc #idolworship #americanracism #republicanparty #democraticparty #trumptweets #racisminamerica #stevencolbert #jimmyfallontonightshow #trevornoah #jimmykimmel #nigeriangovernment #bringbackourgirls #metoomovement (at Delray Beach, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0RVaN0niYz/?igshid=16v7zti36pw4t
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