Happy Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July. On this day 241 years ago congress established a new nation, the United States of America. America the great. America the land of the free. America the land of opportunities.

 

America, America. The United States of America, what you do not understand is that on this day, while you gained your freedom. Others were left behind. America, while you flourished, as a federal government, while you globalized and expanded and while you colonized, you only succeeded in creating a system of oppression. 

 

And those who were effected, were neglected, constantly abused, always fucking corrected. The world was never fucking connected. Happy Fourth of July. While you are the symbol of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, these days it seems as if you are selfish, inconsiderate, mental, hostile and lacking of compassion.

 

America, it seems to me that you are divided. The truth of the fact is that the same fire you use to light your work, you used on our backs to make us work.

 

America is a country that was founded on immigration but denies immigrants the access to a country that they built, in fear that they will disturb Americas self-proclaimed peace. A peace that has ceased to exist.

 

Very bluntly America is a country that was founded on slavery and not bravery.

 

America, how could you forget, that time you stole black bodies from across the ocean and you dragged them against their will onto ships making them applicants for slavery, crushing their bones and their souls, erasing any bit of dignity any kind of fight. 

 

America is a country that believes slavery is in the past because we aren’t tied to chains. But let me tell you, we don’t need chains to feel pain.

 

America, can you explain to me, why in 2015 police killed 102 unarmed black men and women. That’s a mother, a father, a son and a brother twice each week.

 

So when NFL players you choose to praise only when they play and not when they protest, take a knee during the national anthem, do not condemn them.

 

Because you made the color of our skin look like an illness, that you could not heal nor accept. And with every killing of an unarmed innocent black body and every governmental strategy used to create links, America you have betrayed your so-called values and you have served only those who benefit you. You enslaved us, you killed us, and you tortured us and for that you want to be commended? You see this pain you have created has yet to be mended. You cannot blame us for our uproar and our protests when all you have done since the beginning of time is afflict us instead of lift us.

 

And today – you hinder us, but you do not stop us. After this you cannot, tell me that America was ever great and that’s America with 3 K’s, K,K,K. Happy Fourth of July to you, America. Not I.

 

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Theflyingirl867

TBH america thinks its great... but they dont see the damage they do to alot of people

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