America subliminal messages

So this place called America

Home of the love and land of the freeBut I ask America itself are we really loved and free ? We are trained to live life with our surrounding and then  die continuing this legacy.Some people raised blind and unaware of everything that goes on.Instead of whipping and beating people as slaves.There's a new meaning to enslavement.Drugs, guns, clothes,all the material thing being distributed.Bullets flying through air as I create these images.Of the only one way to live and that's survival of the fittest.Not just black people but everyone in general goes through these struggles.Seeing friends come and go as they was on a work schedule.Having this little 8.50 job as a way of income.Thinking living in moms house and working is the way of life.Seeing more people now a days being comfortable with what America gives us.Not comfortable as if you in the house, chilling with your slippers watching tv drinking hot chocolate on a snowy day.But more so comfortable living in this small city and afraid to expand their horizon.I've met many people from the city that haven't even made it to Delaware which is 10 mins away.Now some people are less fortune than others so it may be understanding.But it's the choices in life that we make to benefit for our goal building.Taking a leap of faith out of this glass bowl around the city into a world where right and wrong is unclear.Gazing on this mirror of the glass as I touch, going through a dimension  where we Enslaved by the mind As this bowl is the resting place.But a bowl is half of a globe so why limit ourselves to just one road.Why not break this glass that compromise communities to feel comfortable inside.Forcing us to lose our true means of life.Taking our individuality away to settle for a 9-5.So as I stare harder seeing the true means of life.I start to see people jump from job to job instead of the path that holds their career.Thinking work as a waiter or the bus boy is the path to our future.Plays tricks on the mind as we see making fries isn't that bad of a job.Encoding into our mind this way of the "American Dream"Where you have a mansion as a house, all the fancy cars, and latest fashion.All this material things but only set for a 10th of America to obtain all in one.But this place called America makes us believe we are free.As people we may have freedom but we are still slaved through our mentality.We don't reach out of to touch the stars.Expanding the talents that's within us.The only talents seem to be allowed is the music and athletes we see in front of us.But what about the people behind the scenes.Where's the lawyers, doctors, judges, officers, the people that can help make a change to life.The people that can stand up for something that's right and be a leader no matter day or night.The saying goes "close mouths don't get fed" We stay closed minded and just follow what others believe is appropriate. But I guess that's America colonizing the community to be the workers instead of the leaders.If you truly pay attention, some people in America is racist but America only sees one color.When you living with the color green it's suppose to open all the doors for you and yours but loses all the beauty of being poor.Love is the lost emotion America seem to lose as the latest technology comes out.We are more worried about the iPhone and latest sneaks instead of being an adult taking care of our responsibilities.Giving us a television set but having the agenda on what comes on these shows.Having society believe we flipping through the channels but the message never changes.Making us think the material things is the successful way of life.Showing your social status based on the shoes on your feet.Or the thousand dollar clothes you just brought proven with the receipt.This glass bowl around the city enlist these images in order, planning our life story.For example, look at the tv shows for instanceWhen you see a non colored show its about a family happy 2-3 children, dad a doctor or lawyer and mom the same if not she is a stay a home mom but running her business.Living in that million dollar mansion that we all dream of But when you turn to BET you see shows that give the incentive of colored either bringing each other down or being "comfortable" in their ways of living.Funny how television actually portray people for what America believes their life is worth.But once again America envision those ideas forgot  us to follow.As I seen these images in my everyday we get the finest things in life but stay relaxed in the city being afraid to strive for greatness.So here goes a question Why are we so oblivious to how caged puppets we are while America claims that we are free?   

 

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