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| Pay attention young man |
Image is a powerful thing. For centuries
and centuries governments and empires have used the power of images (propaganda)
to rewrite history and control the perception of the world. Propaganda images
are still being used today right under our noises. Everything we use to tap
into information is used as propaganda, Facebook, cell phones, our TVs, Netflix,
the radio, our music, and especially the news are used to control our thoughts
and reactions. The schools and universities we attend help to control our very
thought process and how we react to our environment. We have all been convinced
to act a certain way, to feel a certain way, to react a certain way, to think a
certain way, to dress a certain way. All my clothes have name brands on them. I’m
sure where ever they made my clothes the people there were exploited and left
in ruin.
One of the worst forms of propaganda is
the news. Yes I say the NEWS. Newspapers and Internet articles are included,
all forms of news are used. The news is the most dangerous because it is perceived
to be truth, actual fact, most times without question. Belief and
perception can cause anyone to do anything they believe is truth. We as a
society have made the news truth. And the news has taken over the truth and
over perception. I know the people in Ferguson MI can attest to the media
reporting but not really reporting. And why won't the media say that ST. LOUIS
has a racial problem instead of just talking about a neighborhood in St. Louis.
Is that a good question to ask about the news? I used to be very entertained by
watching FOX News, especially during Hurricane Katrina. I've known for a long
time that the news was entertainment when I started seeing reruns of the news.
I'd watch it again so I could be entertained again and again. Why are their
reruns of the news with all the events happening every single day? I’ve seen
the new all around the country, local, regional, national, and global. Thank
god for YouTube and news web pages now I get to annoy my friends with all the
great news I've found. It’s believed that what happens in the news happens in
real life, but what happens on the news is actually someone else’s interpretation
of what happen, a view point, a perspective, and a perception. Anyone can tell
a story to an advantage. My momma called it half lying, not telling the whole truth.
I would always be honest but sometimes I wouldn't tell the whole truth because I
was trying to trick my mother into not knowing I did something wrong. I wanted
to control her perception of a situation. This is exactly what the news is
doing and has been doing. If you watch the news, it will have you believe that
we are being terrorized by foreign governments when in fact most of all
revolution that happened in the last 100 years have been countries revolting
against an American oppressor. Not to mention what is happening to the stolen African
people in the United States who has believe that they have “made it” in America
because the president of one of the most profitable businesses in the world is
a black man.
Here we go. We have been doped again and I
myself have fallen for this trick, this ultimate slap in the face to all the
African American leaders that were assassinated by the business known as the
united states government corporation. Lord have mercy on my poor negro soul I
have lived to see the day a black man is president of the most powerful nation
in the world. That was me in 2008. Right before Obama helped bail out the banks
and not the people who were getting their houses taken away by the banks, who
tricked people into buying those houses anyway. From that point on I knew that
Obama was not who he represented... change and me. I thought change meant different
then before. They only difference is his skin color and its racist to notice.
So the world see a black man the represents the stolen Africans. I am a stolen African.
Obama is not a stolen African. His father is from Kenya and he was born an
American. He does not have the same history I have. His great grandparents did
not face the same percussions as mine. He is not a representation of Malcolm X
or Martin Luther King Jr. Who died to have the power his image has. Obama does
not represent me or any of the African Americans who have been surviving on
this continent and to say he does is insulting to everything they stand for. The
legacy of those men will be foreshadowed by the first black president. The
elections in 2008 was the mark of the civil rights movement ending. All the
struggles of the civil rights movement have been achieved by the inauguration of
the first black president. All the wrongs have been righted, because a black
man is equal to a white man in the United States of America. But is that the
truth. Is a black man, a stolen African truly equal to the white man or any
other man for that matter in America? As a black man a stolen African I
can tell you from my own personal experience of being around different races
and cultures in the United States that the black man is not truly equal to
other races in this country. Well documented operations by the United States
government will tell you that the black is definitely not equal nor does the
country want them to be.
While the media
pumps up and confuses us with rights for our sexual perfrences, how are black Americans doing with rights? What about
the women's rights? How are they doing in this country? I don't remember the
gays helping one bit to ending slavery. In fact I’m sure they may have been the
enslaver. Don't make this an attack on gay rights because it’s not. It’s an attack
on the image of Barrack Obama and how it is not what the world and we perceive
it to be. We all need to wake up especially black people and stop supporting a
man because of his image. If we can support a man bigger than his image then
maybe stolen Africans may get the real change and the real hope we deserve and
stop being gunned down in the streets because of the Hollywood imagines that
the public have and the imagines we have for ourselves, because image is a
powerful thing. You should control the images and the perceptions you choose to
believe in.
