Let us be PERFECTLY clear:

July 4 1776 was not a holiday nor a Holy Day for any Black citizen in America. As the ol’ boys system fought for their own freedom, they simultaneously enslaved Black people and kept them economically at-bay; and that enslavement was meant for keeps. Permanently.

The US Constitution was not written to include the freedom of Black people — we were an afterthought, an “add on” after the fact (a potentially REVOCABLE throwaway clothes hanger in the closet) — and even still, it would be 1968 before any kind of false freedom for our people would be realized — 100 years AFTER the last slaves realized they had been a free’D people for nearly three years.

President Obama would have to respect this Independence Day for himself as the son of a Kenyan father and American mother, because his African ancestors were never slaves in America.

For those of us whose roots can be traced back to AMERICAN plantations; and for those of us who have lived under the onslaught of racism in America and the deprivation of our own lives, liberty and the pursuit of our happiness, this is not OUR day.

Our freedoms were only won, in part, by the Moses Generation that preceded us. It was a hypocrisy then and still is now, that a nation which screams “freedom” from terrorism would create those terrorists and then simultaneously enslave and terrorize others for material gain. The very same things that they would not want done to themselves, they STILL do to others. Now.

We took those civil rights –which were also meant to free whites from the lifelong tyranny of enslaving others– for total granted. We dropped the torch and the gauntlet and the blood-stained banner of Civil Rights on ‘our’ watch, Joshua’s Generation … so the only American semblance of freedoms that we have received up to this point has been that which our OWN Black ancestors fought for and for which we are still fighting to this very day.

“Independence” does not exist for us until … Black Lives Matter, to us AND to THEM; reparations, due in full and still owing, are paid; and the Constitution is re-written to include Black Americans as FULL citizens with equal treatment in the courtrooms and justice systems across the nation — as equal as any rich and/or any white who commit the same or equivalent crimes, and released just as any rich and/or any white without proper evidence accorded.

Until then … we are still not a free nor an Independent people. We have become so accustomed to the abuse and the bullying and the interrogation that we have begun to bring it upon ourselves.

We eat our own and then wonder why we are the main course on everyone else’s dinner plates. #PTSS

Slavery has not ended for us, because the prison systems still lock up a vast majority of innocent and/or “petty-thief” Blacks who are then used as slaves because the “system” allows it. Allows that which does not really apply to whites unless they are in an “overseer” type of capacity.

The threads of disenfranchisement and slavery run deepest in this land that expects us to celebrate a freedom that was not our own; and we do so out of the “slave instinct” bred in us to drink the sand because we don’t know it’s not water.

The colors, for us, are not red, white and blue – but purple, black, and green.