Graduation Speech: Demoralizing The American Dream

Well, it’s a place where all of your fantasies can come true. You can come to this country with just the clothes on your back and hope in your heart. Then after settling here you will have a closet full of clothes, a big house to live in, and a bountiful supply of money. You’ll be living the American Dream. You can be and say whatever you want in America. That’s why it’s called ‘’the land of the free, and the home of the brave’’ right? Wrong. If you come to America with just the clothes on your back, we will accuse and prosecute you for being an ‘’illegal alien’’, arrest you, take the only items item you have to your name (your clothing), redress you in a prison uniform, destroying any bit of hope you had in the process. Folks come to America with the idea of a better opportunity in life, but in reality, you’re worse off living here. I’m always in awe at people who claim how great The United States is and how they wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. If you say anything bad about America, people tend to respond with ‘’If you don’t like America then leave”. Translation: Criticizing our country by pointing out the flaws and wanting to fix them is ridiculous. But I cut them some slack because they wouldn’t be speaking so positively about America if they had any idea about what’s going in this god forsaken country. If you have no clue what’s really happening here and you’d love to know. Well, it’s your lucky day because you are about to find
One must admit, they’re doing a damn good job at it. But the US citizens need to break out of this state of mind. The social manipulation of society, and the generation of fear and division has detached us from our sense of power and reality. Religion, race, patriotism, class, and any other form of identity division has served to create a controlled population. As long as people continue to separate and divide, we will remain as slaves. The men behind all of the plots and schemes of this nation know that if the truth gets out and we acknowledge our personal power, the plans they’ve been building will collapse like the Twin Towers on 9/11 did. Only this time, they won’t be the ones behind it. Instead of trying to achieve the American Dream, why don’t we try to achieve our freedom again? I’d take a life of liberty over materialistic items any day. Let’s teach others to love people and use things, not the other way around. If we all stopped seeing each other as separate than ourselves, we could change history and end the corruption of America before it passes on to the next generation and others to