Letter to Humanity

r3sh's letter to humanity. A plea for revolution in the midst of the global genocides.

12/30/20236 min read

Salaam and blessed lyfe

We, a community that spans the globe, are a people that carry an array of faiths, religions, spiritual paths, or none. A living mass of interconnected individuals whose mortal flesh continuously blurs the sight of one another's being; the soul beneath the skin. The grand majority of us are mere civilians attempting to survive under one oppressive regime or another.

We have been sold dreams, divisions, wars, pestilence of humanity, and other illusions by capital hungry politicians beseeching more power. We watch powerless: as legislation curtails open hearts at borders, walls and barriers are erected denying pathways to humanity, genocides and ethnic cleansing over access to minerals & gems are occuring in several African nations, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the displacement of millions, destruction of their homes, secretive imprisonment, a military engagement using fire bombs and everything short of nuclear weapons to fully & completely annihilate a collective communal culture – the Israeli holocaust of the Palestinians. The energy is palpable, and is leading humanity down a course not conducive to growth or evolution, furthermore; it is one we cannot return from.

Worldwide we talk about the housing crisis; but in truth family homes are business ventures and holdings, vacation homes, bed-n-baths, or for the family exorbitantly priced. The water we're drinking is so toxic it has to be overly saturated with chemicals to somewhat safely imbibe it, those that are fortunate. Those that aren't depend on the empathy and compassion of commanders of capital ostensibly owning water resources; "3rd world communities" like Flint or U.S. military bases. We consume edible objects modified beyond their natural order sold to us as food, and we continue to be afflicted by old-world disorders because of it. Our air is a noxious array of deadly gasses filled with bits of oxygen. Our neighborhoods are in disarray not because they are crime infected, but because We are struggling between undue debts, jobs that pay just enough to feed the illusion of living, and affording the time off for mental & spiritual nourishment.

Families are broken because the aisles in grocery stores run as ranges; further isolating families in food deserts. Our schools have become glorified babysitting hubs that more often than not are bullet ridden battle fields. Our refuges from lyfe are sniper field ranges, call-of-duty maps, or an angry ass person rampaging with a gun. When we decry the system of politicians that freely enables our killers, and willingly condones it; the police state arrives in full force to defend it (Privileged American).

We are led to believe the people crusading 3,000 miles in hopes of safety are animals. So we separate monstrous children from villainous mothers & fathers, siblings, and other family members. We offer fear, hate-mongering, despise, maltreatment, in-humanity; when we should offer food-water-bed and heart! We, the people, hold melanin that spans the fleshy rainbow, faith from complete disbelief in God to absolute spiritual devotion. We are poor, disheveled, and in very great need. Far too many of us lie imprisoned in institutions of injustice; while those of us "free exercise our liberty" at the discretion of a system marked by devaluing lyfe.

We are tired of being deceived by Presidents, Prime Ministers, Dictators, and the like presiding over monkey houses; mal representing conspiring sensational bodies and hokey supreme courts. We, the people, are not naive or unaware that our political representatives, as well as our votes– our voices; are being sold to the business conglomerates, billionaires, legacy families, and other self-interest parties. We, are a people, that left monarchies, aristocracies, and totalitarian structures because we hold fast to conscious determination through self autonomy; our vote our voice. We've not the heart to continue this charade!

We desire, do construe desire with demand, the ability to foment healthy family bonds and structures for our children to be safe and secure, healthy individuals. Whose futures: do not include wearing bulletproof backpacks to play dodge bullet outside of home. That they won't be forced to join someone's child army to institute genocide. The realistic ability for their future prospects are an authentic rich viable lyfe.

We are a people spanning the entirety of the globe that have been awaked by the Palestinian genocide. We are an interconnected global family that has heard– feels our brothers, sisters, mothers, babies cry!

We pray:

For the Hamas members whose screams for liberation were ignored so they shattered a treaty with humanity. For the hostages kidnapped and forced into martyrdom; for the message to get out. With the Palestinian civilians whose lives are now more traumatic than they already were under Israeli colonized occupation. With the Israeli soldiers that are enacting the cultural holocaust.

We are not perfect beings, but we do not comprehend how 12,000 lyfeless civilian bodies is a diplomatic war response, and not an act inhumane of vengeful retribution. How a united national body of first world leaders not only fail to condemn it, but instead aides supports and jumps in to dress up the war crimes. Using our tax dollars to support any military aggression makes us complicit. Governments around the globe use this and "Rico" cases to bring down criminal enterprises; and righteous protestors! Yet, our recourse will be a continued and further impediment to food on our table, clothes on our backs; towers crumbling from skylines.

If we are to be human, and citizens with no choice but our money go to war; it must- can- only be for aid. To aid the Palestinian families under physical bombardment. For mentally health treatment & support for the Israeli and Palestinian communities to combat trauma. For the soldiers so they can do more than service; they can return home whole! To rebuild a community that was annihilated by hate, with love encompassing land "from the river to the sea"; imbued with fervent uplifting of all sols that inhabit the area.

If we truly be bodies instilled with the presence, the spirit, of humanity we can not hide from our principal duties to our communal family. The tenets of sacrifice, empathy, understanding. Faith, Hope, Creation, Love must become primary infrastructures we use growing forward - evolving together. We, the people of the globular family are by instinct and natural order curiously explorative creatures, whose boundaries and borders are walled only by the profound tethers connecting us to lyfe, and the extent that humanity will extend itself.

We hold closely to the social contract of sister/brotherhood that blankets all of us together regardless of man-made labels. Though our languages, food, and ceremonial practices vary; we are many that make up a whole. We lyve by the naturally vested birth rights given freely by mother earth: fresh clean lyfe cleansing water, natural toxin free wholesome food to nourish our body- feed our mind- touch our soul, air that fills our lungs with a vibrance for lyfe without pollutants & additives, safe clean shelter to thrive and consistent relationship building with self & spirit,-- Autonomy of self-determination, free to define identity, gender, sexuality and personal desires. To be free of enslavement of all forms! To be grounded in a society that gives value to the individual because they are imbued with the gift of lyfe; opposed to value gauged by the production within the mechanized capital establishment.

We hold to those noted, as well as those not; still comprising the constitution of lyfe. Truths; given proof by the foundations & principles of 'living' lyfe. To those fighting for black lives, latinx, women's autonomy, climate change, indigenous lives, LGBTQIA+, justice reformation, veterans, poor and un-homed, civil & voter rights, prison abolishers,... We are all children of the same fight. We yell, protest, even take revolutionary action demanding humanity, but our varying cries to be seen drown one another out. Our tribal cultural groups are splintered factions because while we acknowledge, discuss, and bemoan their divisionary practices; we have allowed them to separate us.

We all stand vigorously for liberties not just for ourselves, or only those like us; but for every human-being. We fight for all persons to be empowered through a revolution of free thought. The tangibility of a true actualized freedom, an individually attainable liberty; is only realized through humanity seen in, given to every person.

We as a collective species are at a pivotal juncture in the timeline of humanity. The wars terrorizing our brethren and the planet emit a palpable wave of tension encompassing all of it. The energy is alive and terrorizing our spaces!

We have a choice between further allowing perversion of the tenets of humanity with misguided, faltering moral account -or- we hold to the principals set before us. We leave behind the singling labels of revolution, to coalesce under one meme of diverse inclusive loving humanity. We can-must become more if we are to create not just hubs of survival; but pathways to ingratiating humanity.

As we begin to tiptoe amongst the edges and frozen spans of the universe, we must take note to nourish the seeds we have here. We must challenge the arched trajectory we are on and aspire to be better. We must actively remember to nurture the sols here with flaming embers of unadulterated humanity, otherwise; when it is all said and done there may not be anything of humanity left.

-Humanize Us, All

rameses "r3sh" setekh