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When I think of America I think about all of the black children born into slavery who were whipped, shackled and sold on Wall Street to the highest bidders before being beaten into submission to pick cotton from thorny vines while their hands bled from sun up to sun down.

I can feel the bitter sweat from their tired brows mixed with raw anger and piping emotions boiled with fear that they’ll never get to see their loved ones they were separated from. There ain’t never been such thing as a ‘good house nigger.’ Most learned to become complacent due to inability to do better.

Then a man named Abraham Lincoln, intent on abiding by the rules of the Constitution and not necessarily concerned about black slave’s welfare declared all slaves should be freed under the document based on military principles.

His reasoning was based on the number of revolts from slaves occurring at a rapid rate. Lincoln knew it was just a matter of time before all slaves revolted and turned on their masters. Many slave masters couldn’t trust their own slaves due to secret communication between plantation slaves.

Nevertheless, slaves were freed thanks to one president whose actions made a difference. To have the power to make a difference should never be taken for granted. It is a reckless, indecent and irresponsible action to desecrate the American flag in any way.

To do so reflects terrorist-like behaviors automatically calling for tv, radio and traditional media to ban the artist or possibly suffer withdrawal of big advertisers whose businesses could be harmed. A massive misinterpretation of Lil Wayne’s actions could even pull the artist’s album off of store shelves.

I needed to carefully watch Lil Wayne’s video footage of God Bless Amerika to formulate a solid opinion and not a “I don’t care what you say, but Lil Wayne is a good artist,” groupie opinion. That’s not my style. I would certainly ban Lil Wayne’s music if I found out he purposely desecrated the American flag on purpose, but the footage clearly shows Lil Wayne’s mic positioned just 1 foot away from where the American flag dropped out of view to reveal his fans.

Unfortunately, he had no leg room to walk, but had to continue the video shoot and rely on good old fashioned editing. Of course, footage is going to get leaked unedited because this is what artists do. Still there is no clear indication that Lil Wayne stomped on the flag other than his first few jumps before clearly realizing the flag was below him. He does walk over the flag, but he doesn’t continue to stomp on it with malicious intent. It’s clearly a prop in the way.

Because Lil Wayne apologized immediately I believe the raper was sincere, but he may want to fire the set designer for this terrible mishap. In the next few days Lil Wayne will clearly get to see who all of his enemies are in  AMERIKA as one-by-one try to bring down the billion dollar man. This kind of hype just make young rebellious teens download more copies by any means necessary. – Written by Miss Disilgold Literarydiva.com