Black America & Race-Based Discrimination

God is a Black man. Shackled, beat until his lacerations became engulfed in contusions. His wounds had wounds. Beaten by his own creations. The great I Am, and forever is.

2023, the land of the "free" for who? As if it could be an idealistic founding principle of the United States... constant contradictions define the country's history to present-day dilemmas.

I don't have shackles to the naked eye, but I shed the same tears my ancestors wept. Their sorrow echoes throughout my soul. As the psychological chains percolate throughout my being.

A country that is systemically constructed in a manner to never protect the bodies of melanin that were just counted a s a whole person less than 150 years ago - cannot stand on liberation and equity. This unjust society attempts to set world standards that are subpar to the actual equivalency of what it means to be just and fair. The framework of the American culture was specifically designed to be exclusionary of African Americans despite the reality that African Americans built the United States on their backs, with their hands, standing on their feet. Furthermore, the legalities that plague African Americans in the United States are the root of subjection when honing in on microaggressions and larger matters that force amalgamated disadvantages down the throats of those who possess melanin, historically of course.

The stench of structural and systemic racism that is rooted in the infrastructure of the United States prohibits any progression of African Americans to become the idealistic contributor as a positive citizen as societal standards deem. Not only are individuals that have historically been filled with melanin fought, and continue to fight, exclusion, suppression, segregation, bigotry, bias, unfairness, partiality, one-sidedness, discrimination, hate, inequality, and prejudice - just to name a few, but African American deal with isolation and generational ache from the construction of society in "The Land of the Free."

Breaking down the ideology of "The Land of the Free" into synonymous words translates into - America,

the country where freedom is complimentary, but aht! Only if you migrated to this country by choice, in hope for a better future, on a boat that brought corn... and disease. However, if you were shackled and transported via mass incarceration mode of transportation by the Middle Passage, where you starved, excreted matter, and heaved, and that shipped you as an unwilling citizen of another country to become a workhorse for those who were self-proclaimed leaders, or the souls that jumped to die in freedom and not remain captive, then this does not apply to you.

Throughout the history of America, its continuously failed to become a beneficial staple in the world's public and emotional stability based off statistics - this proves this incompetency of American Democracy.

For example, according to the, "American Youth Know Democracy is Failing," in The Harvard Crimson, in 2021, 52% of participants that participated in the Institute of Politics Harvard Public Opinion Project's Youth Poll acknowledged that they believe the United States' democracy has failed or is in trouble.

I dare to examine how "The Land of the Free" continuously contributes to the concept of Black Americans having disadvantages based on discrimination, historically and in modern times. With the promotion of a societal reckoning and reconstruction of public policies and efforts, this will only initiate the process of dismantling and completely relinquishing subjugation on the Black community in the United States.

Elimination of "foot on necks" reference is the exact notion of what is going to happen through reform.

In the words of protestors from around the world, "I can't breathe!"