Can I just be myself?
There are many factors that can oppress who we truly are, and be silent in the world around us. Race, gender, and sexual orientations, are in fact some of the biggest challenges we all have to face in our everyday lives, in our homes, jobs, schools, and our communities. Sometimes we might feel like there is no one out there who would accept us for who we truly are, but there is. Well need to be conscious about what we said, and be open to new life styles. We all have the right to be freedom, to be who we want to be, yet we have all this barriers created by assumptions and stereotypes in the society we live on, and the only way we can break all of this barriers down is by speaking up. Breaking the silence, that many of us live in, finding our inner voice to speak and use the rights we are born with. We all have the right to be free, the right to be different from everyone else. Be proud of your individual beauty, stereotypes about your skin color, ethnicity, or sexual orientation shouldn’t determined who you are, as a person you have the right to be different, and choose or be what you want. Speak up, and say what you got to say, and be who you truly are, don’t let ideals stop you from doing so.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
-Simone de Beauvoir
Are we really free?
Race, gender, and sexuality represent on of the greatest controversies of our generation, we all brag about living in a free nation, that allows us to express who we really are, but that is far from reality. On this videos Marsha Ambrosius illustrate the painful reality millions of African- American goes true, because it is a lot harder for them, to come out and say “ I’m gay” to the people around them, friends, and families, because we have created expectations from them, and that in fact it is not consider part of normality. There are hate crimes, happening solely base on race, and sexuality, but why can’t we different? Sexuality can keep up from speaking up many times, about 1 million people commit suicide every year because there are being bully or can not cope with what is going to happen if the tell someone that they are “gay”. It is not an easy journey, sometimes it is easier to say it, but another miles stone to do it, and break the silence. People can sometimes be hurtful, when they mentioned words such as queer, fag, and homo. Independently from race and gander, sexuality and accepting who you truly are, it can be difficult. Breaking the silence to the world its difficult, but we all need to speak up and accept people for who they are, why do we live in a “free” country, if we are force to be silent?
Life Style
Thights and hips
Tongues and lips
Boys in g-strings dance for tips
Rum and coke
X and smoke
Meat so thick it makes me choke
Whispers and groan
Dicks come bone
Friends in bed, now not alone
Bottom on top
Press, don’t stop
A different kind of sock hop
Anal and oral
Sex in plural
Not what the Boy Scouts call moral.
By David Wallace
Far Away- Marsha Ambrosious MarshaAmbrosiousVEVO- channel hppt://www.Youtube.com/ Wallace,David “The Poems Came Late: Literacy as Cultural Dialogue” Published (2003) Life Style by David Wallace(November 2000)
“He who does not have the courage to speak uo for his rights connot earn the respect of others.”
-Rene G. Torres
Quote Seas- The life in few words
I’m Courageous
I have always been against stereotypes about women having to follow the norm that society for long has perpetuated, and we still see nowadays. Women are being constantly sexualize on the media, and oppress by our community beliefs, government, and even ourselves. Double standards such as, “Woman who hook up with men are hoes or whores, but it is OK for men to do it”, “ Men can cheat on women, but if we cheat the first thing that come to their mind is how does that makes them look. How does it makes us look?”or back on Edwidge Dandicat times, from her essay “Women Like Us” she mentions that “ women on her family should be the best little cook and housekeeper who ever lived” or that for women on her time writing was an indolence and it was forbidden. Yet, she stood up for herself and became a writer. As women, we need to break the silence and stereotypes, that have for long been part of the oppression we live in. Just as Dandicat, want the voices of the women ancestors in her family to be heard, I want my voice and the voice of every single women to be heard. We have been prisoners for so long, its time for our souls to be free and speak up. We do not want to “Kitchen poets” as Dandicats ancestors who were only allowed to write in their kitchen corners, housekeepers or we do not want to be that choice to be passively encourage by others it need to be our choice, there is so much more out there in the world, waiting for us to discover it. We are all powerful women in our own rights, and have the right to speak up for ourselves. Use it.
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Right To Be Different
“When we loose the right to be different, we loose the right to be free.”- Hughes, Charled Evans
Race can be one of the biggest oppressors in the life of many, it can silent people from the world around them. Race shouldn’t determined who you are and who you are going to become in the future. There are so many stereotypes and assumptions about different races such as: “ Asian students, are good at math and science, and that is all they know to do,” “People from the Middle East are terrorist”, “Hispanic people are all undocumented immigrants, and have no education”, “ Black people are dangerous, and illiterate”. Your skin color, physical features or you ethnicity„ should not be a determinant in your life. Not because you Asian means that all you know to do is math and science, Amy Tan was rebellious enough to choose something that she was truly passionate about; writing. She is an Asian- American writer, and coming from an immigrant family she was stuck between two worlds, her mother’s tongue and proper English, having to deal with two different aspects, she decided that to take some English courses, and decided to become a writer. Not because your from the Meddle East means that you are a terrorist, or being Black/ Hispanic means that your are dangerous, there is good in people. People are born with the right to be equal, and be different, we should be able to speak up for ourselves. Race and ethnicity should not be and oppressor, it should not be the reason why we do not find our own voice in the world around us.
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Hyperaptive is an independet musician born in South London. His music inclinations range from racism,crimes, political issues, and philosophical questions, or humorist songs.
