1863

Freedom – Exemption or liberation from the control of some other person or arbitrary power. In 1863 American slaves were physically set free. But yet a man isn’t truly free until the shackles of the human mind, body and spirit are broken, only then is a man truly free. Until one is capable of taking control of their own mind and thoughts he is still a slave. Thinking and living an image that was long ago instilled in him an image that holds him hostage to a dastardly past.

For over three centuries it was beaten, tortured and forcibly instilled into the African American’s mind to absorb a self-hate, self-destructive, self-abasement and self-abnegation image of him. This image was then labeled nigger. A word with almost four hundred years of built up negative destructive energy with such a psychological impact that on into the 21st century it is a word that is still wreaking havoc on its intended victim the African American. The conditioning process has been such a success that the African American has become enamored with the word and embraces it with much love and tender care.

There is a name for this kind of conditioning; it is called the Willie Lynch Syndrome. Until the African Americans can learn to separate themselves from this syndrome the shackles of slavery will always remain intact.