An Invitation to Write Unapologetically

What a time to be alive. What a fierce time of passion, death, and deceit. We have been here before. Generations of Deja Vu. Moments of ease like treasuring our family time and realizing that Capitalism has stripped us from being able to create a real family unit. This centering on money, as we live makes us swing from vines, jump through hoops, and dance around for a bottomless pit of merciless abusers. Who are those abusers? It is the very people that uphold and justify the way that the majority of the world has lived its life for centuries. NEWS FLASH... It is not working!!!!

There is so much denial and confusion on Earth. Our origin story as humans is even still in question. Our only truths that we have are that we need each other and a healthy Earth to survive. Hands were meant to hold, life is meant for bonding and we have to unlearn so much that makes us scared and self sabotaging of our own selves. Even as I type this I am in the wheel of survival. We all have to give up what we want and need at our cores, and then be bombarded with images of violence, the story that we are told socially and politically that is "TRUE". I can say that that is an act of traumatization. We rise up only to be met with a "parent" or laws that do not want to take care of us. We lose the very time that is precious where we could be with our aging families, or children or getting to explore life because everything has a cost and we are tricked to think that we are competing.

I want to believe in my soul that I am not anyone's competition for the ability to have a decent life and make a living on my own. I thank Vocal.com because I need this space. This space is my refuge. We can say the elaborate truths of our hearts that have been taken away from us by conditioning. I want to say SHARE YOUR WORDS. It does not matter how much education that you have, what corner of the world you belong, what language that you type in, you have a message that needs to be heard.

I believe in dismantling systems of oppression as someone who is a product of these oppressive cycles. I am the product of denial and confusion. A person that lives to work, and that has had so much done to me without asking what spaces I need to pause and regroup. Have you ever felt like you are always being criticized by the things you cannot change? You are too tall or too short, too light or too dark, you have potential but not there yet. A waiting game to feel decent in life. But, that is why I love language!! We have the words of liberation, dismantling, freedom, comfort, life force, power, happiness, community. There are words for this world that go against the root of our pain and dissatisfaction we just have to disrupt that root.

The root of Capitalism, and the false narrative that we are all birthed to succeed and have free lives. Today in the Life Long learning challenge I will teach you about what is Capitalism and why it is so important to dismantle it. In the article "Is Capitalism Racist?" in the New Yorker, it goes to explain " Walker Johnson's book The Broken Heart of America" and racial capitalism: which is racism as a technique for exploiting black people and for fomenting the hostility between working class whites towards blacks, as to enable white capitalists to extract value from everyone else" It is not given enough weight in our country that slavery led to the rise of Capitalism (When people have to barter or work for their money so that they can buy things that they want or need, such as food) The article goes on to explain how the "Empanicapation" of slaves without acknowledgment of the social, spiritual, psychological, physical generation implications of "folding them" into society. That has created the conditions for the fracturing and exploitation of black lives and other populations of color for the sake of money.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/is-capitalism-racist

Dismantling capitalism has been spoken by many politicians and liberal revolutionaries for many decades. After reading more about what we can do to dismantle it I have heard these responses from Quora.com:

" Capitalism cannot be fixed. It is an essential component of capitalism that the majority remain dependant upon being exploited so that they present themselves for waged enslavements to the ends of producing surplus value the accumulative interests of the parasitical minority class.

" Cap individual wealth accumulation by setting a limit on personal hoarding of capital"

"No American should be a trillionaire while others work for him for $15 an hour"

" End Ownership of U.S land by foreign nationals, foreign governments, foreign corporations, and foreign organizations of any kind. Our land is not to be parceled off as spoils of war, after the poor have been ousted"

"Place a statute of limitations on all debt. All citizens should get a debt Jubilee once every generation, a clean slate, a reprieve from bad luck. "

"Capitalism is impossible without collective violence. If everyone was willing to use violence against those who would use violence to force them to live a certain way, then we would be rid of capitalism."

This poverty in the midst of plenty is the next wave for freedom that we should be disassembling. It is the willing violence and working of the poorest people or certain minority groups that runs this cycle for the advancement of just a few. They do not want us to be healthy, and think outside of their systems so they make it virtually impossible to get out or dissuade us from thinking that socialism, or communism is a viable option. The point is that our current system has never worked. It is our choice as we go forward in this "semi-fractured" global pandemic world to decide how we should create a new normal. This article inspired me to read more anti-capitalism articles, donate to fund organizations that support defunding police/war/military, and lift up organizations that support the flourishing lives of all communities in a way where no community is exploited.

It is a source of pride that I offer you these tangible solutions to the system that we all find ourselves in. It is also a source of pride that you too can speak or write what ever injustice you find passion around. You have some power to enlighten, and influence and with the right platform someone will listen.

Much Love To All of my Readers!!!! <3 Be Well