IN THIS WEEK'S SUPERSOUL SHORT, A POWERFUL MESSAGE
BY SPOKEN WORD ARTIST PRINCE EA. THIS VISIONARY FILMMAKER CHALLENGES
THE JUDGEMENTS ATTACHED TO THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN AND IMAGINES THE
FREEDOM TO BE SEEN FOR WHO WE REALLY ARE... I am not Black. I mean that's what the
world calls me, but it's not me. I didn't come out of my mother's womb saying, "Hey everybody I'm
Black." No I was taught to be Black and you were taught to call me that. Along with whatever you call
yourself, it's just a label. See from birth the world force feeds us these labels and eventually we all
swallow them. We digest and accept the labels. Never ever doubting them. But there's one problem,
labels are not you and labels are not me. Labels are just labels. But who we truly are is not skin deep.
See when I drive my car no one would ever confuse the car for me. Forgive me, but I fail to see the
logic or pride in defining myself or judging another by the cars we drive. Because who we truly are is
found inside. I'm not here to lecture. I just want to ask one question, who would you be if the world
never gave you a label? Never gave you a box to check. Would you be White, Black, Mexican, Asian,
Native American, Middle Eastern, Indian? No. We would be one. We would be together. No longer
living in the era of calling human beings black people or white people. These labels that will forever
blind us from seeing a person for who they are. But instead seeing them through the judgmental,
prejudicial, artificial filters of who we think they are. And when you let an artificial label define
yourself, then my friend you have chosen smallness over greatness and minimized yourself. Confined
and divided yourself from others. And it is an undeniable fact that where there is division there will be
conflict. And conflict starts wars, therefore every war has started over labels. It's always us versus
them. So the answer to war, racism, sexism and every other ism, is so simple that every politician has
missed it. It's the labels. We must rip them off. Isn't it funny how no baby is born racist, yet every baby
cries when they hear the cries of another. No matter the gender, culture or color. Proven that deep
down we were meant to connect and care for each other. That is our mission and that is not my
opinion. That is the truth in a world that has sold us fiction please listen. Labels only distort our vision,
which is why half of those watching this will dismiss it or feel resistance and conflicted. But just
remember, so did the caterpillar before it broke the witch shell and became the magnificent butterfly.
Well these labels are our shells and we must do the same thing so we can finally spread our wings.
Human beings were
not meant to be slapped with labels like groceries and supermarkets. DNA cannot
be regulated by the
FDA. We were meant to be free and only until we remove them all and stop
living and thinking so
small, will we be free to see ourselves and each other for who we truly are.
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