🎺 Blow the shofar in Zion… not for this empire.
🎇 Boom, Bang, and a Big Lie
Family, while folks are out waving flags and grilling GMO hot dogs under illusions of freedom & independence, let’s get real: this holiday isn’t about our freedom — it’s not even about theirs anymore.
Two years ago, I shared some uncomfortable truths in my blog, “While Some Celebrate the 4th of July, We Remember the 4th of You-Lie.”
This year, the fireworks haven’t changed — but neither has the lie. So let’s take it even deeper.
📜 Independence for Whom?
Let’s not forget:
- July 4, 1776 marked the colonizers’ break from Britain — not from slavery.
- While they toasted “liberty,” our ancestors were in shackles, abused, whipped, bought, sold, and worked to death.
- The same folks who said “all men are created equal” conveniently excluded the ones who built their wealth.
Today in 2025, that same spirit of hypocrisy is alive and well:
- Mass incarceration replaces plantations.
- Police brutality replaces slave patrols.
- Miseducation replaces literacy laws.
- Economic slavery keeps our people chasing debt and dying to survive.
They sing “land of the free” — but the soil is still stained with blood. Ours. And our blood still cries out to our Father in Heaven.
🩸 Red, White, and Bruised
Let’s talk colors… They hijacked our Hebrew Israelite, Biblically verified colors (that’s a story for another day), and they tell us lies about their meanings, but we see this instead:
- Red? That’s our blood spilled for a country that never fought for us.
- White? That’s the whitewashing of history — the lies, the sanitized textbooks, the fake heroes.
- Blue? That’s the bruises. The blue lights flashing before another brother gets profiled, beaten, or worse.
“They celebrate freedom with fireworks while ignoring the flames that burned our homes, churches, and communities.”
Their independence came at the cost of our chains, our blood, sweat, and tears. And yet they still call us ungrateful for not celebrating it.
📖 Our Declaration: Serve YAH, Not the Beast
The Declaration of Independence says:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
But the truth ain’t self-evident when it’s buried under lies, unjust laws, and broken promises.
Our declaration?
- We declare independence from this wicked system.
- We pledge allegiance to YAH alone, not a blood-soaked flag.
- We walk in the Way of Yahoshua, not in the traditions of the colonizer.
- We keep the Feasts of YAH, not the fireworks of Babylon.
Our true freedom isn’t found in the U.S. Constitution — it’s found in the Torah our Israelite Constitution!
🪓 Even Y’all Ain’t Free: A Word to European Americans
Here’s the twist: even the ones who think they’re free… You aren’t.
Your ancestors literally fought to the death over a 3¢ tea tax. “Taxation without representation” was enough to grab muskets and storm the empire.
Now look at you:
- You need permits to build on your own land.
- You need licenses to fish, hunt, or drive.
- You need government approval for just about everything your ancestors would’ve called basic rights.
Y’all went from throwing tea in the harbor to just complaining on Facebook about taxes and gas prices.
That’s not freedom. That’s comfortable captivity.
At least your ancestors had the fire to resist. You? You wave the flag of the very system that’s robbing you blind — with a smile.
Y’all aren’t free… y’all are Free-dummies too.
🔥 A Call to Remember and Resist
Family, We don’t celebrate captivity just because they call it liberty.
We remember:
- Our people were not included in their independence. Even Juneteenth was over a hundred years after the first Independence Day!
- Our lives are still impacted by the systems they built and refuse to dismantle.
- YAH, not Washington, D.C., is the true source of freedom.
And we resist:
- By rejecting pagan holidays and embracing YAH’s moedim (set apart holy days).
- By teaching our children the truth in our Scriptures, not the muddled truth found in most textbooks.
- By coming out of Babylon and walking in obedience to The Way — the way of Yahoshua HaMashiach.
🛑 Don’t Be a ‘Free-Dummy’
If your “freedom” comes with an ever increasing price tag, it’s not freedom — it’s permission.
If your rights can be revoked with a vote, they’re not rights — they’re privileges.
If your joy is tied to a holiday built on hypocrisy and lies, then you’ve been sold fireworks in exchange for truth.
So don’t be a Free-dummy.
Don’t be a willing slave celebrating another man’s freedom while you stay chained.
Don’t wave a flag when you should be sounding the alarm.
🎺Blow the trumpet. Wake up the sleeping.
And remember: YAH’s people have their own calendar & holydays, their own laws, and their own King.
Until next time, shalom ✌🏾
~Yahrahn
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Good Blog, Achi! Keep it 100!
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