Can Black People Attain Freedom in America?

Freedom and liberty aren’t the same. White people can attest to that. When their ancestors arrived in the New World in search of the American Dream, a national ethos carved from the imagination of starving Europeans they were finally free. Though freedom was man’s birthright, it became a privilege reserved only for white people. However, freedom was never intended for the slave or his posterity. He was an unwanted resident who had overstayed his welcome after America had made its fortune off his back. And still, he has no liberty.

400 years and counting, Foundational Black Americans are still waiting to be free. Black genocide is still occurring twenty-nine years later after the Rodney King incident, and fifty-two years since Dr. King’s assassination. White supremacy has reverted back to its overt ways, kneeling on the neck of a black man on national T.V. until he reached his death. Black men are still strange fruit hanging from trees down in Texas with their last words I Can’t Breathe becoming slogans printed on shirts as souvenirs. America has always made a profit from the black man’s pain.

White Americans will argue that the black race’s cry for freedom and protest against injustice is an unnecessary tantrum in 2020. Racism doesn’t exist in their skewed vision of reality, and the cop-out “Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire” isn’t an indication that black people are equal. But their deflection isn’t due to their arrogance, rather a defense mechanism to hide their guilt. Yet, racism hasn’t only affected black…