In the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth. Then, he made a
bunch of other stuff that shaped who we are today. And once he made the
first human, he incorporated morals and knowledge into the human. Over
the eons of generations of humans born into this world, these two
important qualities have wilted and died just as old plants do. On the
aspect of life, there are certain groups of people that maintain and
understand these two core values, and puts them into personal
perspective. When this years English class first started, I was … naive
to the world and its issues but more of a subliminal ‘idgaf’ type
attitude. But as the year progressed, and we began to learn about the
more current issues made by our hierarchy; I realized that past events
shaped today’s world in terrible ways[1] : when It came to learning
about colonization, we realized that past affects affect us
firsthand-subliminally. When it came to current events and the movements
of new age, we realized that none of this would have happened if it
were not for corrupt governments.
One
key moment wheres reality set in about our … thought process and how we
have been brought down was when we began to learn about human mental
interactions, and how the mental clocked everything around it. Over the
course of one quarter, I have learned that humans are all the words in
my word art; good and bad, despicable and tolerable. Humans are nothing
but a stalemate that cannot pick a side. Let us take freedom for
example. When you hear Freedom, what do you think of? Do you think of American flags and the Ramparts Red Glare? Do you think of Army soldiers and unchained Negros? This is what I wrote a few months ago to describe freedom:[2]
“Freedom
is being secluded from all mankind and hierarchy’s because even if you
aren’t in shackles, you are still mentally bonded. Does a driver stop at
a red light? Yes, because his mental is still on lockdown.”
Let
me help you a second to analyze that; what I am saying, on a basic
level, is that freedom is being without worries, cares, or dependence.
When you have any of these feelings or verbs, you are not “free”. Yes,
there are certain cases where you can be somehow freed: If you’re bailed from jail you are… semi-physically free, yes? I then go on to say,
“Freedom
is more of a word than a practice. It is like the word “love”; Thrown
around carelessly, like a tiger does with a carcass. “
When
you realize that my words are not life lessons, but affiliations with
life, you will see how disastrous our human kind are/could be. Now, I am
not saying that we should be contained in any form or fashion, but we
do need to know when to hold ourselves back. The human race does not
credit itself with how far they have came; with what was done, so much
more could be accomplished that it even scares me. At one point, our
class wrote prompted poems and one thing that I stated that stood out to
me was,
( http://ironpoetry2013.wikispaces.com/KaBoni_Bailey)
“I was raised by peer pressuring blocks and hammers that stayed hot. Where another man getting shot was like a pebble being kicked by our socks; at times we had no shoes. Rubbed down souls decreased our rubbed down sneakers until all that was left were our toes.”
When
I recite this out loud, it makes me think of the way that our
government/higher officials make a community. Why is it that suburbs are
funded more than those who actually need
funding? When I had the epiphany from Mr. Blocks class that we are half
messed up on purpose, It broke me down and gave me another reason to
strive: One of my goals is to not be labeled as a statistic, just as I
stated in another poem on the wiki,
“…Regardless if I seen the world as realistic I made a promise to myself one day to not die in Philly labeled as another statistic because being black in America is not only a blessing It is artistic…”
In
another instance through the year, we spoke about language and the
problems/connections that language can have on people. Here’s a quote,
(https://www.scienceleadership.org/people/kbailey)
“I
learned quickly how to adapt to my surroundings, language-wise…not just
the language of verbal, but the language of clothes, hobbies and act.”
Now,
I do not wish for a New World Order, but I question why we are so
separated and when it comes to these questions, not even The Bible can
truly answer. And I am going to connect history to the point I am trying
to make. Several months ago we learned and spoke about various
religions and problems that religion has placed upon us. Technically,
the world is a hypocrite; using religious text to try to make a
point/religion valid when the you either A) don’t practice your preach
or B) Can’t Fabricate it anymore than it is.
Personally,
I am a Christian… or, was a Christian until I read half of The Bible
(NIV). Now, I have read enough of the word, and learned enough from
those who know more than me, to come to a conclusion about my God and
myself. What I am saying is that every government thinks that they are
correct about their religion, when they don’t even know the words, and
can’t even come to a honest conclusion about what to teach/uphold to the
general public.
Going off of that, listen to this video and think about who we really are:
http://vimeo.com/57605615