The world as we know it is changing right before our eyes. Yet many of us fail to recognize the differences between how things were and how things are now. Whenever the discussion of “America” comes up, most people want to associate the country with one word: “Freedom.” Freedom is word that those who are advocates for the “Land of the Free” and “Home of the Brave” use due to the perception they have from comparing the US to other parts of the world who don’t have “our freedoms.” When Barak Obama took the oval office, I was happy to be a part of what I thought would be a historical event. Even though I went against my better judgment by allowing myself to participate in supporting a system that was never designed to work for the people, I voted for him because I had the same hopes as everyone one else in America who are starved for the emergence of a true leader. It’s what we all want no matter where you live. In less than 3 years of time served as our commander in Chief, I am sorry to say that my convictions and preconceived notions are correct. Obama is the puppet I thought he would be and following in the footsteps of his predecessors. I know what I just said will make a lot of people who still want to hope in him upset, but I have to be real with this. So do many of you.
When we take a look at our current president, what are the differences between what he’s doing and what Bush and those who preceded him have done? Truman gave us the atomic bombing of Japan, the cold war with the Soviet Union, the Marshall Plan, and the Korean War. Eisenhower continued the Cold War with the Soviet Union. LBJ gave us Vietnam. Reagan gave us the cold war of Libya. Bush Sr gave us the persian Gulf War I with Iraq. Clinton gave us NAFTA and the gulf war. Bush Jr gave us Persian Gulf War II with Iraq and dubbed it the so called “War on Terrorism.” Now, Obama is carrying out the unfinished business of that war and we are seeing America’s true agenda played out on center stage in Libya. The propaganda machine tells us that “We must intervene to help The rebels” yet I can’t help but notice a common thread between Libya and Iraq: Natural resources. The US has left a trail of commonality regarding “who” it helps and who it turns a blind eye to. When Katrina hit it took 5 days before the Government responded to send aid to the residents of New Orleans. When a Tsunami hit Sir Lanka that same government was there in less than a day. It took 5 days for them to respond to a community of people who live in their own back yard, but went across the globe in less than a day to help a country that isn’t even on the radar… What does Sir Lanka have that New Orleans doesn’t? Sri Lanka is a strategic naval link between West and South East Asia. It is also rich in natural resources that in part has earned it the nickname: The Pearl of The Indian Ocean.
A lot of what I am discussing is foreign to the masses, but nevertheless it is very real. The news is one of the most damaging tools to the mind when it comes to searching for the truth. I mentioned the propaganda machine (the media) earlier to bring light to this fact. He that has the power to control the media, has the power to control the minds of the masses. We have seen this scenario played out before us many times. From the demonizing of sports figures like Michael Vick, to the Hollywood blackballing of Actors like Danny Glover for no other reason than for having an affiliation with world figures who don’t “share the same political interests of America.” As a citizen you have to ask yourself, where do we go from here? It’s a terribly rude awakening when you realize that “The 1st black President is no different than the 43 white ones who preceded him.” Barak Obama works for a system that was never designed to benefit any of us to begin with. A system that when not advertizing war, drives 90% of everything else we see in our society with sex. We see it in Music videos, and commercials. We hear it on the radio and see it on the movie screens. They have even taken a childhood classic in “Little Red Riding Hood” and turned it into a sex flick where Little Red apparently has the hots for the Wolf now. Absolutely pathetic.
That same system provides beer for you on one hand but tells you “don’t drink and drive” with the other. The same system that tells you not to commit adultery is the same system that gave you “Sex and the City.” The same system that gave you organizations like “Planned Parenthood” is the same system that refuses to advocate examples of how a man should properly love a woman. That same system never has much to say about men like Tony Dungy, but if you’re a jackass like Charlie Sheen they’ll put you on the front page of every newspaper across the country. Sorry people but I’m extremely tired of the BS. It’s time for us to stop supporting and making excuses for a system that has never supported us and uses us as excuses for it’s problems. Obama is not the “Messiah” we all were waiting for. No. That person has come many times. You can see him/her whenever you look in the mirror. You are the one you are waiting for. Instead of crying “why me?” I have a better question: Why not you.…? The sooner you resolve the riddle to that puzzle, the sooner you will see “change…”
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