[Metaphoria]

If you are suggesting that white people do not hve it 'easy' as well, I would agree with you, but solely on the basis that as humans we have all had are share of strife. However, it has been by far proven that we, black people, have tasted a bigger piece of the strife pie. Also, I'm not just talking about slavery, although that is the root of our current conditions, despite white people and black people's argument that slavery was something that happened years ago and it is now over. First off, it is far from over, even in a physical sense. For in parts of some states slavery as it has been described and as you know it, is still in existence. I'm talking about white and black water fountains, black people wallking with their heads down talking about 'yessam' and 'noamm'. But asides from it's physical prevalence, it affects are permeating the present and have been doing so for the longest from crack babies, to 75% of the prisons being filled with black men, to impoverished communities, to us never likely to ever being the president of the U.S. Most people ask me, both black and white, if 'the effects' of slavery were so strong, then why are there successful people of color, who are maintaining positive lifestyles while the others rob, shoot, and kill. I say to them, imagine the experiment about the fly who was captured in a jar. Upon him being initially captured he tried to fly up and break through the lid. he tried and he tried, but after awhile he just stop trying. Then finally one day, some one took the lid off to set it free and it went nowhere. Why? because its mind had been conditioned into believing that the lid is there even when it is not. Now when he looks up, instead of seeing a whole in which to fly out from, he sees the darkness of the bottom of a lid that was once there. The mind is a powerful thing and once infiltrated and conditioned for something, the chances are slim to none that they will do anything other than they have been conditioned to do. This is the state of my people. Sure some of us have managed to see the light at the top of the jar, but many of us have not. And so we build are lives there, in a jar, confined, enslaved.

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Name : Metaphoria, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Atlanta, State : GA Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, 

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