(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, I have wondered if things would change in America. Blacks were outraged over the covert racism that plagued their everyday existence while whites were tricked to believe that it did not exist. Both were tricked by the wealthy because their pockets were laced with producing products that brought forth a greater level of division. But every since the people took the streets to protest in Egypt things have looked a bit different for the masses.
Today, I awake to see people taking to the street for two different reasons; Joe 
Paterno and the Occupy Movement. The students of Penn State are turning over vans in protest but there is lack of police presence but those in the OccupyCAL movement are beaten by the campus police.
“There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don’t believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it–and almost all of us have one way or another–this collision between one’s image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish. (Nobody Knows My Name)