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America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentment

are you free, humanity, by power of love or in chain by love of power or by lack of it? a student of The School of Resentment asks… back in time, at such dominant spaces called Shunganunga, here or Hora Arsadi, Malka Atete, Tullu Nam Dur, there— where points of above and below meet where people went to fast to be alone with spirit and where Natives preached to their youth the “Seven-Generations Principle,” that every Native should keep in mind: whatever decision she or he was to make in lifetime would affect seven generations to come! now, Puritans came, and preached to the Natives: that they came to “PACIFY,” to “CIVILIZE” and that God gave them the land— a safe haven to be free from EVIL! those freedom fighters sooner or later banned the Natives’ right and burned, slashed and killed buffaloes cut down timbers, and disrupted nature! now, Thomas Paine rose and nailed the principle of independence and, at the same time, engraved the creed of Manifest Destiny in the Common Sense: that the coast to coast expansion was justifiable and inevitable destiny! now, Walt Whitman rose and hailed “sex contains all!” in his “A Woman Waits for Me”— an ode to procreation or miscegenation in which he strips women of their independence and Natives of their self-assurance— unlike his “Democratic Vistas”! now, we have come too long a road from “A Woman Waits for Me” of ***** from the “White Man’s Burden,” to "The Vagina Monologue" and to sing: No society can be immune to hypocrisy, social pretension, anarchism, oblivion, until it refutes itself against its foundation values: Manifest Destiny, Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Slavery, and racism, the neo-Jim Crow— going on everywhere and anywhere in disguise! and to adhere to Democratic Principles! in a society where economic freedom is at its center, Individual Liberty, for the Individual without Food without Shelter, is virtually impossible, manifestly a lie— or it is only politically correct! now, before we go without going it is time for us to learn new prayers and thus the Pastor leads the prayer: there is no Poor on this land only the Rich and the not-so-Rich we are all equal! now we are not in jail or in chain now we have a gun to fire now, we can tear down Nature to see God’s face! now, we embrace our Individualism now, bless these couples: he and he she and she we trust in GOLD! here-and-now hallelujah amen!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 12/6/2015 12:47:00 AM
that is right, evil can not hide behind grace it must face its maker.
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