The Black Press

"...but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced." (Joseph Conrad, 'Heart of Darkness')

It egregious to know how blacks have been treated throughout American history. But this is no new fact. Watching the video over the Black Press was actually more inspiring than it was disheartening, though it was disheartening. The human spirit is a complexity of unity and division, compassion and hate.
Oppressed peoples is nothing new in history; since our dawn there are notes of hate and division amongst us, and with that, the fight to press on and equalize it. As Joseph Conrad so eloquently pointed out in his novel ‘Heart of Darkness,’ we are never too civilized to outgrow primitive nature and this, to our demise, is “the horror, the horror.” I empathize with the black community who for hundreds of years have fought, and still fight to have an equal voice. Though I have never known that kind of oppression I think to a degree we can all understand the need to be heard in our own voice and not one decided for us. Which is why I found this video to be inspiring; to see that more prevalent than our ability to hate is our ability to fight. The human spirit is not driven by the luxuries of happiness, but the drive to survive, the want to thrive is only important once we are in a place where survival is not as threatened. And while some of you may disagree with me, turn to history; the depression, the holocaust, slavery, etc… these people were not happy, and did not continue to have hope and fight to one day be happy, they did so because it was simply stronger in them to fight to live, than to submit to death. And why fight to live, especially when so oppressed??? I have no idea. But it’s inspiring to know that we do fight, we push and struggle through because it is simply ingrained in us to do so. And in so doing, we do make breakthroughs, we do help to tip the scales and equalize the balance of things.