What does it mean to not live in the past? In order to press onto the future a past must take place. Every individual holds their own past, but every race endured their futures together, with the same outlook on life.
Every word has a definition, but when that word is used as a form of action the definition tends to differ. Oppression holds a meaning of weighing heavily on the mind or spirit. When one endures pain for so long without having any say whether they will reach victory over it there starts to form an attitude of expectance, an attitude with no gratification, with no release of the pressure. When our people were brought into slavery a feeling of remorse feel upon our every being. Even though we shouldn’t have been the ones to feel guilty about our positions that we were forced into I believe that we had no choice and we knew that we should be something more than what we were labeled as. That label was one that was not earned by our people, but rather assigned by those who believed that they were better than another race. Humility set in for too many generations in the African American race. For to long we have thought of ourselves as being something less that what we are, something not worth even trying or striving for.
I believe that our people don’t live in oppression by decision, but rather it has been breaded into each of us. Its like a scar that happens when your young, you don’t quit remember what happened until you get older and your parents or relatives tell you how you hurt yourself. You will always have that scar for the rest of your life, it becomes apart of you. Sometimes you forget that you have that scar, but every once in a while someone sees it and asks you about how you got it and what happened to you. It’s the same thing with oppression. It is like a scar that our people have to live with, but not by choice, but rather because of our past generations that went through that time of pain and tears.
Man nor women can speak on a situation unless they have endured it. A white man cannot speak on slavery because they’re ancestors were the captivators of our freedom. Color to the white man is those from the rainbow, but to a black man and others who have felt the pain of slavery color is black and white and everything outside of that is where we strive to be.
God did not create black on accident. He created it for strength in this world, a world that believes that there is only one color. Yes, we entered into a time where slavery did cause much conflict in other races and cultures, but we also received freedom in a sense; even though color is still a factor in this world, that is the one thing that brings us all closer. I know that deliverance is soon to come in the African American race of oppression, I have faith that one day our people will truly be freed from the immoral consequence of the reaction of slavery. I use the word faith because it refers to the things believed but not yet seen. Oppression has destroyed, beaten, and even **** our people because of the heaviness that lays on each of our spirits, but freedom will become our victory. God Bless
