Erase Social Constructs: We are not labels.

I must say, that in any corrupt society, be it in Africa, the Americas, Australia, or Asia, the truth tellers are twice victimized, once by slayers and the second time around by propaganda. And when they are no longer with us, their likeness and their teachings are then cunningly bartered by the same oppressors they spoke against to bolster the status quo.

For the oppressors, being a good example of color they have labeled, is, indeed liberating. We are not labels. No one is. The color of one’s skin is not entitled to one’s worth. If you come to accept the next man’s label concept, then one would be missing the essence of what it means to truly live, life, in its un-constructed forms. The next man’s labels = constructionism.

We must never deny that constructionism is not a powerful critical impetus. Indeed, it is. Constructionism = social rules, status, race, and especially language, which some, if not most deemed as prime to everyday life and experience. The playbook of social constructions has constructed lives from bigotry and reduced our actual worth in minuscule.

This same playbook — which has been managed to hush truths speakers throughout the history— was unleashed with vicious effectiveness against Mandela, Biko, Malcolm X, Dr. King, and the rest of other men who stood against oppression. As the human race, we…