Is your Mind Shackle Free

NOT ABOUT HATE OR BEING MILITANT My book is not about hate nor is it about being militant. I am not for hate or for being militant. I am however hoping to help create a spark of desire to seek more knowledge toward awareness. Which in return will bring forth the courage to take a stand for something positive? Furthermore courage will aid your strength of character to not tolerate anyone to take advantage of you. If someone is willing to hurt you with words or actions, then it is your responsibility to bring him or her to justice. My intent is to help guide you to a more optimistic technique. This in return caters to your stance to remain true to your beliefs which allows you to stand firm against the ones who are trying to bring you down. All I want to do is stimulate your mind so that you can ask yourself and others questions generating your own concluding factors about life and how it has been and is still treating you. Even more so importantly it is also about taking responsibility for your actions. However, the main purpose of my book is about raising awareness. In addition for hope that this message sparks the phenomenon which Willie Lynch speaks so wearily of. That phenomenon can bring our people out of the psychological slavery mentality. Once Blacks in America break that bondage every Black/African American in this world will have achieved unity and true freedom. With that broken bondage comes' a new mind that is free of all shackles which introduced this fear, envy, distrust and disrespect to our race. We will finally have closure. Thus will give us a peaceful mind and a much stronger race. LETTERS WRITTEN BY ME THAT WERE PUT ON THE INTERNET AND IN THE NEWSPAPER
Strickland
Age:39
Subject: Black People and The Nigger?
Hello Steve, My name is Ryan Edward Strickland. I want to say that we, as Black People, should stop and ask ourselves whether we want to be respected. If our answer is yes, then we need to stop degrading ourselves. I like the movie White Chicks, but they used the word and everyone laughed. Richard Pryor quit using that degrading word a long time ago after he and Isaac Hayes visited Africa. Paul Mooney walked with Richard Pryor on his TV show while they were walking their way into history. He should have stopped using the word along time ago. I feel that we should never use anything that has been put in place to degrade us. We, as Black People, tend to always turn bad things into good things. Even the word bad means good to us. Although it is a good effort, we really need to leave the "N" alone, because all it is causing our race is neg-lect. We must put an end to it before anyone else will. On the other hand, if they want to call us out on saying that we are pulling the race card. Then we should call them out on discrimination and pull from their deck of discrimination until every card in their deck of discrimination is gone. If we do this everytime, then they will eventually not be so quick to discriminate against us. I ask you all again, Is Your Mind Shackle Free? Our ancestors broke the physical shackles, and we will break the psychological shackles. If we come together and stand strong, we can create that whirlwind phenomenon that Willie Lynch spoke of and break the cycle of the First true black-on-black crime. Most of us black people have always put God first, but God truly helps those who help themselves. We can pray all day long, but we must also take action! If it ain't broke---and I do mean ain't---then do not fix it. Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Jesse Jackson and many others marched and boycotted in the past to get things done and it worked. So if it was not too good for them, what makes us any different? Hell, we would not have half of the rights we have today if they had not protested. Black people seem to have been much stronger back then than we are now. Is this because we have gotten too comfortable? We need to get off our buttocks as a whole group and walk, March, and even run to make a positive stand for our race. If the dope man gets arrested, another dope man takes his place. If a black leader gets assassinated, no one is so quick to take his place. Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said,"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." Come on, black people; you know the saying, "There are two things we must do: pay taxes and die," but I say we must pray and take action. Peace and much love to all of the black people of America. We need each other. Every other race helps its people first, and there is nothing wrong with that, and that is why we must do the same. God blessed America and "We The People" means every man on this earth; it just so happens to be written in the books of American history. Ha ha. "Shut up," Little Richard; "Wake up," Spike Lee. I am not scared to do what needs to be done. What needs to be done is that we need to have more love for our race first, then our country, and then the world. It must be in that order. The government should also help our counry first then the world second. I am a disabled army veteran. I spent eighteen years with the army and five years with the post office. That is twenty three total years with the government, and I am only 39.