by Indigo Blu

Created on: January 06, 2010

"African-Americans are really free"? Why, thank you! Thank you so much for indicating that African-Americans are "free"...considering we should have never been enslaved to begin with. 

Everyone, regardless of race, gender, creed, etc.  should be free within their mind.  However, when you have been beaten down mentally, socially, financially and spiritually, it is easy for the brain to become shackled.

Just because someone no longer has to look to the ground and say, "Yes, massah", "No, massah" does not make them free.  When someone of another ethnicity is confident and speaks his/her mind in the workplace, he/she is deemed as strong, assertive, and witty.  When an African-American person exudes those same traits, he/she's deemed as angry, aggressive, and intimidating.  With such negative traits, surely that cannot be tolerated in the workplace, so now that person must be terminated because who knows what he or she is capable of doing.  Now you have an unemployed African-American.  This is free?

A few young ladies bust their behinds to achieve stellar grades in school and play basketball to make a better life for themselves.  They get accepted to an Ivy League institution of higher learning, only to be demeaned and called a "nappy-headed ho" on national television by a personality who should know better.  Some people felt the young ladies were too sensitive.  Others actually thought it was funny.  Some felt it was "very bad", but the personality should be forgiven and the whole matter should be just forgotten.  In fact, that personality now has a multi-million dollar contract on satellite radio and has moved on with his life, not looking back.  However, these young ladies will remember this horrible incident for the rest of their lives.  But African-Americans are really free, so...

There was a time that African-Americans BY LAW could not live in certain areas.  There was a time that African-Americans BY LAW could not be considered for certain forms of employment.  Now, it is considered a mortal sin to turn down someone from another ethnicity for a job or housing.  Yet, African-Americans get looked down upon from these same ethnic groups that have migrated to this country and excelled in jobs and have found decent housing off of whose backs? Yes, African Americans.

I'm not saying that excuses should be made every time something doesn't go a certain way.  However, to simplify the African-American plight is demeaning and insulting.  "Free"?..."FREE"?!  How dare you.

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