Letter to our youths, children and unborn children for they are the ones who hold FREEDOM in their palms.
SLAVERY use to mean chains, whips, physical force
A white man standing tall, and looking down on Black people tilling the soil, harvesting cotton without rest,
Being given water in their palms at break time, receiving new back lacerations just for trying to straighten their tired waists,
Slavery was; being taken away from your family, your community, to a foreign land where interacting with your fellow slaves was rather difficult….
Slavery use to be a thing of no choice, no voice, no thoughts.
You did what your master ordered and that was all.
But now, but now,
But now, New Slavery means choice, voice, thoughts are allowed.
You take yourself into the Slaver’s arms.
We are “forced” to seek approval from Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and many more of like apps.
Many smiles hide a crumbling spirit that no longer wants to see the light of the next day
Many clicks on a single post drives the post maker closer to pills, knives, and ropes
Many Amens show how much we’ve enslaved ourselves to the the One who gives Freedom.
The Peace giver now seemingly threatens doom to those who don’t share posts
Many find themselves entrapped in a system where the man in charge wears a cassock, carries the so called Holy Book.
You tie your everything to him, he tells you when to eat, what to do with the money you make, tells you that you will end up in a lake of fire if you refuse to be his slave.
You no longer read the Bible, you listen to what it’s supposed to say from a man’s mouth.
You do everything possible to please him. For you need no stains on that immaculate character you put together.
You’d rather die in silence than say you are receiving abuse daily because it will make your picture perfect union seem not at all perfect.
The systems of this world have turned us into slaves, one way or the other.
Many would rather die than be real. Many would rather keep a thousand fake friends than stay with ten true ones,
Many give up their happiness to please the world.
People will always talk, slavery is no longer involuntary. We simply walk into it these days
We just put ourselves right back into Slavery, a New Slavery.
One which we willingly fall into.