A Call to New Freedom — The United States Dilemma
By: Greg Prince
Tags: Society, Human Rights, Poetry, Election 2020, Racism

Racism

A Call to New Freedom — The United States Dilemma

What lines do we have to erase and redraw?

Identification. What does it mean? Who defines the space we rely on? What does it mean? Create the moment and the thought you have. You decide. The influence playing on your ‘I am’ is not absolute. ‘The Man’ is an illusion, and all the experts heaping ‘Shoulds’ on your shoulders are vapors easily blown away.

The walls can’t hold you. The mask comes off. Shed its restrictions inside your heart. Replace the mask with specific love. As one great author said:

‘All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.’ (Alexandre Dumas)

We cannot imperil our brothers and sisters any longer. There is new freedom waiting to be found and not resting in old documents. The more we rely on old thoughts to somehow save us from the same insanity the United States perpetuates, we will never escape the bounds of its failures.

We must rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America. The union needs revision. All people must be recognized as People having inalienable and unalienable rights recognized by the government instead of their property.

Unalienable Rights: In the Declaration of Independence, America’s founders defined unalienable rights as including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” These rights are considered “inherent in all persons and roughly what we mean today when we say human rights,” said Peter Berkowitz, director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff. (source: Editorials.voa.gov)

Which is slightly different but related in a significant way to:

Inalienable Rights: Those rights cannot be taken away; they are inalienable, and they belong to each individual, not to a group or category of individuals, but to each person. (source: Thornberry Newsletter)

Now a quick review of what all Americans have as the property of the government. Privileges are not the same as rights. Rights are inherent, whereas privileges are granted.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Exact and specific definitions are required to explain the law and how it is bent.

A definition of Privilege vs. Right: A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. … By contrast, a right is an inherent, irrevocable entitlement held by all citizens or all human beings from the moment of birth. (source: Wikipedia)

Our privileges can be abridged and deprived. In fact, our privileges are abridged and deprived by capricious government actions and vacillating, ambiguous interpretations of the law by law enforcement and the judiciary.

Real change is needed. We are fortunate to have President Biden coming into office. He and his administration will not change the base and root of the problem. Our government must be reformed and done so by informed, lawful means.

We must be of a different mind. Our whole country must be a new mind. The old ways must be rid of.

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