I hope you all take the time to become *informed* ... TRULY INFORMED.
By all means, go and exercise your "ceremonial" right to vote, and may the best candidate prevail---but more so--May the People Prevail.
Many feel as if this election, with all of its historic implications, may usher in the Dawn of a New Amerikka...Indeed, I feel in these hopes--we are all like children, waiting on the promise of a good--true--word. But this is the beauty of being child-like: to have the capacity to dream, and the courage to pursue said dreams.
But, do not think that a Super-Structure such as Capitalism--which by it's very nature fosters institutions of inequality--that such a beast will pass away the morning of November 5th. That beast we've all been in bed with for too long, and our very core is saturated by its influence--the breath of its rhetoric is as a poisonous fume, suffocating our ability to not only dream of a different--a new PARADIGM, but to also have the Will Power to FIGHT for such.
Who am I, to hold such doubt in this *Grand* system of ours? Who am I to share my sentiments of cynicism and contempt in the wake of this election?
I am but one of MANY--born in a foreign womb where Western Hegemony has always been the looping lullaby near the infant's crib, hypnotizing the mind while coercing us to drink the hemlock of deceit from its bosom; I am one of MANY who was robbed of our ability to imagine a world where the shackles of oppressive systems could be obsolete, and instead--we had our dreams Dictated to us...One of MANY who have been directly and indirectly affected by the very mechanisms created to not only Build this country, but to allow its Oppressive system to self-perpetuate, and as much as we hate what we have often times felt from its bitter sting, we still seek to hold this system to its highest ideals. We are still the lonely child who doesn't give up on 'Daddy's' promised visit, although the moments have leaped to multiple decades, and even centuries...still with no sign of 'Daddy.'
We are encouraged to feel included in the dialogue of America, to profess our patriotism unto the end--all of this while lying on our backs with boots upon our necks--and we still scream AMERICA as we choke!
Those who profit from this SYSTEM need not actively feed us with its hegemonic melody; we have long since learned the tune, and have been humming it to ourselves and to one another, creating harmony in the discord...
What am I saying? Is it that because of all of the crimes this SYSTEM has committed against the very souls who die and LIVE in/by its name --one should not exercise their rights to vote and fight to dream of a day when such atrocities --both blatant and sublime--will no longer be the lot of the people? Emphatically, No! Never in my short time on this Earth have I seen such an involvement in the political process by members of my generation, let alone several generations. I applaud all who continue their struggle.
But consider this: if the status quo remains in tact, and ultimately naught has changed save the representative faces who assist in maintaining this Systemic Mechanism, what then shall we do? Will we have had enough of the looping melody? Will we be prepared to aggressively Change the Tune? And what of the consequences of those choices--will we have the courage to face ourselves?
I pray you all find what you seek in this election, or be prepared to TRULY exercise your RIGHTS.
