Part 1

“I see and admire your manner of living…In short you can do almost what you choose. You whites possess the power of subduing almost every animal to your use. You are surrounded by slaves. Every thing about you is in chains and you are slaves yourselves. I fear that if I should exchange my pursuits for your, I too should become a slave (Jensen, 259) .”
We live in a post-modern world, a world which bows down and pays tribute without question to oppressive regimens and unholy dictators (Obama). Violence is divinely sanctioned and encouraged in the land of slavery and bones (The USA). Oceans expire while we pray.
Appalachian peoples, indigenous blacks, and others tribal peoples are painted as ill-bred, dumb, lesser then human peoples. This is the land of Empire. This is life. This is your world, a world where the divine is separated from humanity by brick buildings known as churches and a wooden cross with a tortured peasant suffocating upon it .
We live in a world where we are encouraged to stay deeply rooted in our miserable lifestyles. We live in a world where we are encouraged to stay aggressive, to submit to the capitalist model…and to never fight back. What ever you do, do not fight back…do not resist as industrial civilization kills off your land base. Remember my friend, as I cannot stress this enough, do not ever fight back, even as you die or the world around is dying…please don’t fight back… for fighting back is only acceptable when it comes from the top and is directed toward those at the bottom.
Neither you nor I are free beings, if you think are, you are being duped my friend. The radical activist David Edwards once wrote, “There is no greater obstacle to freedom then the assumption that it has already been attained.” Your mind is and will continue to be colinialized by powers that preach “DEMOCRACY IS FREEDOM”. Allusions are and always shall be the most impenetrable prisons.
Life is tough, it is dreadful, however that is life and Jesus, he suffered just like we did and he was rewarded in the end, so shall I! This way of thinking is deeply ingrained into our minds. Suffering is the definition of humanity.
We need to wake the fuck up.