A ‘More Perfect Union’ Indeed: Moving Beyond Race

This video is in response to Barack Obama’s recent speech on race in Philadelphia. The text of my video response is below.

With profound inspiration, I speak from the heart that America, our home and nation, is in need of great change. Barack Obama’s speech was the beginning of shifting the tide of change, which brought forth the reality to the conscience of million Americans, that our homeland is need of great repair. However, I want to go beyond simply addressing the issues of race in our country. I want to go beyond finding solutions to our division and resentment. I want to go beyond the color of our skin.

Instead, I want to encourage my fellow Americans to be bigger than labels. We are better than ideas which tell us we are separate, yet equal. We are far more intelligent than those who exist to maintain power and control over the people. We are greater than the conditioning which tells us that we’re different, when we’re so much alike.

We can and will overcome the social disease that is race. We can rise above centuries of social oppression to finally see the light. We can teach each other to see beyond the limitations we’ve learned to disable rational thought. We can recover from our past and realize a brighter future.

My fellow Americans. We must do more than existing as different, but equal people. We must learn to embrace the truth of a reality that is unknown to many of us. A reality that no man in power wishes you to know. A reality which harbors the knowledge to free our minds and carry forth the truth we all need to hear and see.

We are, and always will be, a branch of one. Do not for a moment believe that we are different, for we are not. We’ve been told all our lives how to think, live and interact with each other, all while the truth is overshadowed with myths, lies and deceit. Indeed, it is our moment to be a more perfect union. A union that is free of social ideas such as race, which only serve to maintain the division among like human beings.

It is this moment where we not only talk about solutions, but also realize where we need to be as a people and nation. We can be the point of great change throughout the world, if only we so desire to unseat ourselves of complacency and outdated beliefs. Race is an idea that we must collectively demolish, so that future generations can enjoy a society that’s free of social constraints that should have never existed in the first place.

We can do this, America.

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