Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood are so conc erned with that, that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond the ir rationale. They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are, there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genoci dal consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.
Niggas talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a confor mist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the syst em that will eventually change you. There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but comprom ising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem. Latino America is a huge colony of countries w hose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich place s, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buy ing overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.
I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my w ords. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others.
You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies in Lati n America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the U nited States; places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.
As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient i nstead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques.
But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser peopl e. "Fuck them, let them fend for themselves." No, Fuck you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye y our hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what k ind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a lit tle monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, j ust to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.
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