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Saturday, September 12, 2009

THE CRIME AROUND US: OVERCOMING INTIMIDATION

Helping police led to a bullet hole in one man's home. How is the city encouraging people in high-crime areas to cooperate in investigations?

"But another group of men were doing everything they could to keep him from talking. They tried to stuff him in a car trunk. He was shot. They sprayed his house with bullets in a drive-by. Men smashed up his car with a brick and threatened to 'wet' his mother, slang for shooting her."

Is this not terrorism at your front door?

Go to http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102106/met_5634994.shtml

The Terrorists Around The Corner

"Federal prosecutors said Tony Maurice Horne Jr. and Troemaine Herbert Storey, both of Glen Burnie, and Jerome Otto Waters Jr. of Annapolis were part of a gang that used violence and intimidation to keep competitors out and silence people who might go to the police.

"The words 'stop snitching' were spray-painted on the street in several Severn neighborhoods, a prosecutor said."

Go to http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/12_09-32/TOP

'No Snitch' campaign is no good: It shields criminals from justice

"No snitching is no joke. What 'no snitching' means is that a lot of murderers, rapists and street thugs are able to get away with their crimes....Meanwhile, young people who support the 'No Snitch' campaign are contributing to their own destruction....It is selling out big chunks of the black community."

Go to http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/160134,CST-NWS-mitch05.article

Reportedly a KKK member said, "They are contributing to their own destruction? Then what good are we? At this rate we will have a going-out-of-business sale. Crosses to burn at a very deep discount."

Internalized Racism

"Internalized racism has been the primary means by which we have been forced to perpetuate and 'agree' to our own oppression. It has been a major factor preventing us, as black people, from realizing and putting into action the tremendous intelligence and power which in reality we possess. On a personal level it has been a major ingredient in the distressful and unworkable relationships which we so often have with each other. It has proved to be the fatal stumbling block of every promising and potentially powerful black liberation effort that has failed in the past. Patterns of internalized oppression severely limit the effectiveness of every existing black group."

(In other words, waking up in the morning and saying, "Boy! I wonder how the White man is going to oppress me today!")

"Patterns of internalized racism get played out in dozens of unique ways in each individual. But we have come to recognize that there are certain forms of internalized oppression that are widely experienced by black people in our society. Some forms of these distress patterns are so universal throughout our black sub-culture that they are mistaken for a 'true' part of our culture."

"Internalized oppression leads us to accept a narrow and limiting view of what is 'authentic' black culture and behavior. Blacks have been ridiculed, humiliated, attacked, and isolated because they excelled in school; because they did or did not talk in a particular way; because they liked classical or folk music; because they did not dance; because they did not play basketball; and in many other ways have been told that they were not legitimately 'black enough,' or are 'trying to be white,' etc. All of these hurts were served up and accepted by human beings wearing restimulated patterns of internalized racism."

Go to http://www.rc.org/publications/journals/black_reemergence/br2/br2_5_sl.html

Seeking a victory over intimidators

Although the witness survived and, from his hospital bed, identified Myron Gladney as his attacker, the shooting is one of a string of such incidents plaguing Baltimore's criminal justice system, according to city prosecutors. Intimidation routinely ranges from threatening gestures in the courtroom or attacks that leave witnesses injured or dead, as young men walk the streets wearing 'Stop Snitchin' T-shirts and a video warning witnesses not to snitch proves to be a best-seller."

Go to http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-md.witness05jul05,0,1763714.story?coll=bal-specials-headlines

Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860

"A chapter of African-American history that will shock many readers."

No, that is impossible!!!!!!!! Slavery has ALWAYS been white thing.

Go to http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/1995/3037.html

"In the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more (2)....The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city."

Go to http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

No, it is a lie!!!

"The exact breakdown of black slaveowners by category does not yet exist; for some insights into the life of at least one black master, Johnson and Roark's book provides a fairly detailed examination of what are necessarily incomplete records. William Ellison was born a slave in 1790, and developed a skill as a master craftsman, a cotton gin maker. He bought himself out of slavery, apparently with the active encouragement of his master -- who may well have been his father -- and became, in turn, a slaveowner himself -- and wealthier than 90% of white Southerners. Indeed, he owned more slaves 'than all but the richest white planters.'"

Go to http://www.claytoncramer.com/blackmasters.htm

"Four types of profit-seeking black slaveowners emerged in the South. Those who owned large plantations or farms were most likely the offspring of former white masters who left the land to their children through an inheritance. Small farmers used additional slave labor to help with their crops. Free black artisans owned businesses and preferred slaves over wage-earners. The final type of black, profit-seeking slaveowners were those who simply hired out their slaves to other farmers or employers for profit. Black slaveowning for profit began in the 1700s and some even kept their slaves until the Civil War. These owners were, again, those of biracial ancestry who inherited their slaves from their white fathers. The Southern black slaveowners were so passionate about the institution of slavery and their ties to the white race that they decided to fight for the South in the Civil War and defend their right to keep slaves. "

Go to http://www.angelfire.com/ne/bluesurf/words/theunfinishedtale.html

We have to keep this a secret. We have to say this was NEVER a part of Black History. We have to be sure to keep out of Black History studies facts that we don't like.

Let's just pretend it NEVER happened. Blacks NEVER were slave owners.

How else are we going to have honest Black History?

Cut the Crap and Read Your Bible

From March 2007:

Today a friend told me of Black people who claimed that Jesus Christ was persecuted by the Romans because he was Black.

Whoever said, "if you want hide something from Blacks put it in a book" probably was right.

I will agree that Jesus was Black, or at least a person of color. But to say that the Romans persecuted him because he was Black is totally ridiculous.

If these "historians" would just open a Bible and read the four gospels they will see that the Jewish leadership, who were also Black or people of color, were the only ones who were persecuting Jesus out of envy. They were plotting his death.

They were the ones who delivered Jesus into Roman hands. The Romans did not look for Jesus. They did not even pay any attention to him until the Black Jewish leaders asked the Romans to execute him.

Funny. Blacks delivering a Black man to Whites so they can kill him. What a novel concept....

What Kind Of Crap Is This?


Who do I warn? Do I warn the drug dealer who is destroying the community? Do I warn the hoodlums who were breaking in people's homes, including mine where I lost a computer, printers, fax machine, and TV? Do I warn the punk who robbed me at gunpoint on my front porch?

Warn the residents who are trying to live in peace and warn me please, NOT THE CRIMINALS.

Why do the "brotha's" get more sympathy than we do?

Their "God" Was A Jailbird

Years ago on television, I saw a 30 -minute program by a religious group (more accurately "cult") that claimed that their leader at time was God in the flesh. I don't know the details, but it seems their "God" was in jail or prison.

On the program, I heard the chants, "Release our God! Release our God!" Now, think about that carefully.

If that guy was actually God, don't you think he could have just walked through a few walls? Or bend the bars of his jail cell like Superman? Or he could have overpowered the guards, do some Matrix kung-fu or something, because he should have been omnipotent? Why could he have not wiped out the whole prison staff with a single flick of the wrist?

Logically, it seems that the government, white people even, had more power than their "God." How can that kind of "God" be that kind of "all-powerful" being if you have to beg the government, mere weak mortals, to release him? What kind of jive-time "God" is that to follow?

THOU SHALT NOT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME -- Exodus 20:3

Is Mayor Williams Black Enough?

"NPR's Phillip Martin reports on how easy it is to stumble while walking the line between being 'not black enough' and 'too black'. When Washington DC Mayor Anthony Williams accepted the resignation of an aide who used the word 'niggardly' in a meeting, a torrent of protest ensued. The controversy comes on the heels of a Washington Post opinion piece that questioned whether Williams was 'black enough' to lead the predominantly Afro-American capitol city. It's a question that confronts many black public officials who walk the line between being 'too black' for some and 'not black enough' for others. "

Go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1032076

Forced Labor: Africa

"In Africa, victims of forced labour often come from distinct ethnic or religious groups. In certain countries, systems of chattel slavery are in place and hundreds of thousands of people are born into slavery. Forced labour is sometimes imposed by local authorities or by militias who abduct villagers and force them to fight or work for them. Trafficking routes run throughout Africa. The International Labour Organization says there is evidence to suggest that children represent a higher proportion of forced labourers in Africa than in other parts of the world."

Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/05/slavery/html/1a.stm

"Don't Let Me Get BLACK ON YOU!"

You must have heard that at least once in your life.

Now what does that really mean?

Call It "Do Not Torture Black Women Week"

This is a Black website that writes the following:

"It seems the founder of Kwanzaa wasn’t any more ethical than those who sung its praises. In fact, at the same time Al Sharpton was glorifying the new holiday, its creator was sitting in a California prison for torturing two black women who were members of the United Slaves, a black nationalist cult he had founded."

Go to http://www.nathanielturner.com/karenga2.htm

Do They Owe Us Too?

Did you know about this?:

Reparations Petition to Congress

Demanding a Formal Apology to African Americans for the Democratic Party’s 200-year History of Racism

We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas the healing of wounds begins with an apology, and the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor held accountable for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices are having on us today,

Whereas as a result of the1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report of May 31, 2006, the North Carolina Democratic Party issued a unanimous apology on January 20, 2007 for the Democratic Party’s 1898 murderous rampage against blacks,

Whereas in 2007 the Democrats in control of Congress refused to pass the H.R. 40 bill, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, that was first introduced in 1989 and was re-introduced in every Congress since then by black Democrat Congressman John Conyers of Michigan,

Whereas inner-city minister Rev. Wayne Perryman wrote a book, Unfounded Loyalty: An In-depth Look Into The Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats, and filed a lawsuit against the Democratic Party on December 10, 2004, but, after admitting their history of racism under oath in court, the Democrats refused to apologize,

Whereas history shows that the Democratic Party through its racist agenda and “States’ Rights” claim to own slaves, sought to protect and preserve the institution of slavery from 1792 to 1865, thus enslaving millions of African Americans, while the Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party and fought to free blacks from slavery and championed civil rights for blacks,

Whereas the Democratic Party enacted Fugitive Slave laws to keep blacks from escaping from plantations; instigated the 1856 Dred Scott decision which legally classified blacks as property; passed the Missouri Compromise to spread slavery into 50% of the new Northern states; and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act designed to spread slavery into all of the new Northern states,

Whereas the Democratic Party in the South formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War to expand slavery where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many thousand blacks,

Whereas starting in 1861, anti-Civil War Democrats in the North were called “copperheads” like the poisonous snake because they (a) wanted to appease the South and accept a negotiated peace that would have resulted in an independent Confederacy where blacks were kept in slavery, and (b) showed their deep opposition to the Civil War draft by taking their anger out on blacks, murdering and maiming blacks in virtually every Northern state,

Whereas anti-Civil War Democrats in New York engaged in “Four Days of Terror” against the city’s black population from July 13-16, 1863, and the anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: "Willing to fight for Uncle Sam", but not “for Uncle Sambo,"

Whereas the anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President Abraham Lincoln because he wanted to free the slaves through war and grant blacks civil rights, and drafted Northern men into the army to fight and die to make his Emancipation Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became the source of the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today,

Whereas after the Civil War, the Republican Party (a) pushed to amend the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment); (b) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875; and (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,

Whereas anti-civil rights Democrat Andrew Johnson became president when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and after the Civil War, the Democratic Party fought to end Reconstruction and deny blacks the promised “40 acres and a mule;” fought to overturn all civil rights legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960’s; and passed repressive legislation including the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws,

Whereas the book A Short History of Reconstruction by the renowned historian, Dr. Eric Foner, revealed that: (a) the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by Democrats as a Tennessee social club; (b) the Ku Klux Klan became a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy; and (c) the Ku Klux Klan spread into other Southern states, launching a ‘reign of terror‘ against Republican leaders, black and white,

Whereas the book A Short History of Reconstruction by Dr. Eric Foner exposed the facts that: (a) the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 was an attempt by Republicans to get the Democrats to stop lynching Republicans, black and white, and respect the rights of blacks; and (b) contrary to legend, President Rutherford Hayes did not remove the last federal troops from the South, but merely ordered federal troops surrounding the South Carolina and Louisiana statehouses to return to their barracks,

Whereas after taking control of Congress in the late 1800’s, the Democratic Party passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned all civil rights legislation passed by the Republicans, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875,

Whereas the Democratic Party supported the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 that established the “separate but equal” segregation doctrine,

Whereas historical documents show that: (a) in an effort to stop the Democrats from lynching and denying civil rights to blacks, the NAACP was founded on Republican President Abraham Lincoln’s 100th birthday, February 12, 1909, by white Republicans Oswald Garrison Villard, Mary White Ovington and William English Walling; and (b) the first black general secretary of the NAACP was black Republican James Weldon Johnson who became the general secretary of the NAACP in 1920 and, in 1900, wrote the song, “Lift Every Voice,” known as the “Black National Anthem” in collaboration with his brother, John Rosamond Johnson,

Whereas after Democrat President Woodrow was elected in 1912 and while Congress was controlled by the Democrats, all black American civil employees where pushed out of federal government jobs, and the greatest number of bills proposing racial segregation and discrimination were introduced than had ever been proposed in our nation’s history,

Whereas even though Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of many black Americans due to his “New Deal,” he banned black American newspapers from the military because he was convinced the newspapers were communists and rejected anti-lynching laws pushed by Republicans, as well as efforts by Republicans to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission that did not get established until 1958 under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, (He rejected anti-lynching laws?????)

Whereas Democrat President Harry Truman not only rejected Republican efforts to enact anti-lynching laws and establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission, but also failed to enforce his 1948 Executive Order designed to desegregate the military, an order that was not effectively enforced until Republican President Dwight Eisenhower was elected,

Whereas with the party slogan: "Segregation Forever!," the Dixiecrats, who were Democrats, (a) formed the States' Rights Democratic Party for the presidential election of 1948; (b) remained Democrats for all local elections and all subsequent national elections; and (c) did not all migrate to the Republican Party as Democrats today falsely claim, but instead the Dixiecrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than a Republican because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks,

Whereas during the civil rights era of the 1960's, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was a Republican, was fighting the Democrats including: (a) Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox who famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant; (b) Democrat Public Safety Commissioner "Bull" Connor in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators; and (c) Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace who stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,"

Whereas the Democratic Party supported the Topeka, Kansas school board in the Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (a 1954 Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) which declared that the “separate but equal” doctrine violated the 14th Amendment and ended school segregation,
Whereas in 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent the desegregation of a Little Rock public school, resulting in Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sending federal troops to prevent violence and enforce a court order desegregating the Little Rock school,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy was not a civil rights advocate because he: (a) voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law (that was pushed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower); (b) opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (that was organized by black Republican A. Phillip Randolph); (c) authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to wiretap and investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist in order to undermine that Civil Rights leader; (d) was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues; and (e) only grudgingly agreed to make a telephone call to get Dr. King, Jr. out of the Birmingham jail after Dr. King, Sr. requested Kennedy’s help,

Whereas due to the nearly 100 years of opposition to civil rights laws by Democrats, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who ran for president against Lyndon Johnson in 1964, sought to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation, but his efforts were not heeded by the Democrats who later unjustly criticized Goldwater,

Whereas Democrat President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans due to the strong opposition of Democrats, and in his 4,500-word State of the Union Address delivered on January 4, 1965, Johnson mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only thirty five words were devoted to civil rights and not one word about voting rights,

Whereas it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960 and 1964, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former “Keagle” in the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,

Whereas because Republican Senator Everett successfully fought to pass civil rights laws in the face of strong opposition to civil rights laws by the Democrats, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen’s “able and courageous leadership;” and "The Chicago Defender," the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen “for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction,”

Whereas the statement by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson about losing the South after passage of the 1964 civil rights law was not made out of a concern that racist Democrats would suddenly join the Republican Party that was fighting for the civil rights of blacks, but instead, was an expression of fear that the racist Democrats would again form a third party, such as the short-lived States' Rights Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democrat President Lyndon Johnson expressed his concern that the racist Democrats in the South would be lost after the passage of the 1964 civil rights laws, Johnson’s concern came true when Alabama’s Democrat Governor George C. Wallace in 1968 started the American Independent Party that attracted other racist candidates, including Democrat Atlanta Mayor Lester Maddox,

Whereas in March of 1968, while referring to the fact that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. left Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited, which motivated Dr. King to return to Memphis a few weeks later where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968,

Whereas Democrats expressed little, if any, concern when the racially segregated South voted solidly for Democrats; yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that began in the 1970's with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values, and who were discriminating against blacks,

Whereas Republican President Richard Nixon established Affirmative Action as a merit-based system to help African Americans prosper with his 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's first goals and timetables, as well as his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made merit-based Affirmative Action programs the law of our nation, but Democrats turned Affirmative Action into an unfair quota system;

Whereas Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who was a fierce opponent of desegregating the military complained in one letter: “I would rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds,”

Whereas in the early 1970’s, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd pushed to have the Senate’s main office building named after a former “Dixiecrat,” Democrat Senator Richard Russell who was Senator Byrd’s mentor and leading opponent of ant-lynching legislation, and in 2001 Senator Byrd was forced to apologize for using the N-word on television,

Whereas Democrats did not denounce Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd who praised Senator Robert Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War; yet Democrats denounced Senator Trent Lott for his remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond who was never in the Ku Klux Klan and, after he became a Republican, defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats,

Whereas Democrats today demean and discriminate against blacks including (a) Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals;” (b) Democrat Senator Harry Reid who slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as someone who could not write good English; (c) Democrat Senator Joe Biden who boasted that his home state of Delaware was a slave state and slandered all black former presidential candidates (Rep. Shirley Chisholm who became the first black and the first woman to run for president in 1972; Senator Carol Mosely Braum; Rev. Jesse Jackson; and Rev. Al Sharpton) by declaring that Senator Barack Hussein Obama (the son of an white American woman and a man from Kenya) is the first “clean” black presidential candidate; (d) Democratic Party operatives who depicted Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele on the Internet as a “Simple Sambo;” (e) cartoonist Jeff Danziger and Pat Oliphant who portrayed Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice as a “stooge” and a bare foot, “Ignorant Mammy;” (f) Democratic Senator John F. Kerry who denounced Affirmative Action on the floor of the Senate in the 1990’s; (g) Senator Hillary Clinton who set the tone for the current race-based slander when she insulted Mahatma Gandhi of India who was a role model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by calling Gandhi a gas station attendant; and (h) President Bill Clinton who – following in the footsteps of his mentor J. William Fulbright, a staunch segregationist – refused to enforce a court-ordered Affirmative Action Plan while president and was himself sued for discriminating against his black employees while he was the Governor of Arkansas,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to intimidate black Americans into voting for Democrats is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery – a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party; and the Democratic Party’s racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology from the Democratic Party.

Boycotts, Boycotts, Boycotts

Years ago there was a Black boycott in Chicago against the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and at least one local Chicago television station. That boycott was supposed to have an effect on the White media there, to "send a message."

However, I talked to a Black newsstand owner in the neighborhood. He said his business dropped off because of that boycott.Black newsstand owners were suffering, not the White media, as a result of the boycott. If they wanted to boycott something, they should have boycotted the advertisers who was the lifeblood of the media.

For the first time in my life I thought, "am I actually smarter than those "Black leaders" who organized and supported that boycott?"

Pajamas Media: The Living Constitution vs. Original Public Meaning

"The 'nine old men' (as some liberals called the Supreme Court in the mid-1930s) were committed to a contract between the generations, not a living, breathing, constantly mutating Constitution. They struck down many laws that showed that they were not simply changing the rules of the game to suit their personal preferences. By contrast, the 'living Constitution' theory became a method for superimposing the personal policy preferences of a majority of the Supreme Court over what the Framers intended. Throughout the period since West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) upheld a state law that required employers to discriminate against women (a very popular liberal cause at the time), the 'living Constitution' model has been the excuse for both ignoring original intent and skipping the more demanding task of amending the Constitution when needed."

The Reparations Proclamation and The Five-Phase Plan

DISCLAMER -- In the spirit of free speech and giving a public forum (something that is being denied in many places), my posting of the following documents do not imply that I am in agreement with them. I have already expressed to the author I have various disagreements with his proposals, and soon I will post my view of reparations and why there are logistical challenges in the proposals that have to be addressed.



However he has the right to be heard:



The Reparations Proclamation


A Solemn Proclamation to the Peoples of the World



Invoking a Continental Process of Equity-Restorative Justice, and Declaring
a Mandate for Reparations to the African-Descended People in America


Be it known by these statements, that


Whereas there exist in the United States of America a people descended from the noble seed of far-off Africa, known as Negroes, Black People and African-Americans among other names, who are a people distinguishable from other peoples of America by their African descent; and


Whereas through their kidnapping, displacement, and bondage in slavery, African-Americans were historically and completely deprived of such intangible, priceless, and irreplaceable virtues as their names, languages, families, traditions, history, and entire culture, which they would have normally preserved, from their noble African origins and heritage dating from antiquity; and


Whereas the early establishment and continuation of slavery, followed by additional forms of institutionalized racism, inflicted upon African-Americans by other peoples of America, constitutes high crimes against humanity amounting to reasoning for reparations as a debt long overdue; and


Whereas racism has caused centuries of harm and depression, including mental anguish, vicious physical abuse and physiological incompatibility, which has brought about among African-Americans a lamentable and debilitating condition known as Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) or the 'slave mentality', a condition resulting from Africans being socialized in an oppressive European system, intentionally designed to divide and conquer Black People, most noticeable when African-Americans attempt to work collectively to establish means for group progress; and


Whereas since the Civil War and the resultant 'emancipation era', {systematic injustice, oppression, and outright bigotry supposedly reduced or eliminated in fact persist in America}, repeatedly and consistently causing massive pain, suffering and death among Black People, depriving them of their constitutional rights, and also depriving them of any chance of group prosperity; and


Whereas African-Americans provided hundreds of years of free & forced labor including sharecropping, producing a variety of cash crops along with their genius in creativity and development, viewed as world renowned and civilization moving contributions, realizing these gifts played a vital role in America rising to a place of great prominence, wealth, and power in the world today, yet they never received proper credit or compensation; and


Whereas Black People in America thus have a profound and unequalled just claim to material and symbolic reparations, sharing a positive and affirmative sense of deserving recompense for unpaid labor and intentional harm inflicted upon them for centuries; and


Whereas African-descended people residing in America and throughout the Diaspora, consistently victimized by violence and aggression, physically engage in reactions seen as demonstrations such as uprisings, rebellions and movements, which are confrontational methods in periodic cycles of resistance to police brutality, deprivation of opportunity and discrimination in the work place, yet they are constantly misunderstood in their expressions for equal treatment; and


Whereas African-Americans, both past and present, have succeeded in establishing their own black towns to live in peaceful and civil societies, whose purposes include restoring their self respect, revitalizing pride in blackness and striving to achieve freedom, justice and equality; and


Whereas Black People now find it necessary for themselves, their children's, and future generations well-being and prosperity, to instill their values as other minority groups, who educate their people on their culture, in their communities for a proper knowledge of self; and


Whereas there are not enough words in any language or form of communication to make an adequate apology to African-Americans for enduring slavery and hundreds of years of exploitation including reconstruction, segregation, integration, discrimination and racial profiling, yet conditions in the black community calls for an act of this nature for healing purposes; and


Whereas there is not enough money or wealth in the entire world to compensate African-Americans in the form of restitution for their stolen contributions representing their achievements, discoveries and inventions, that are responsible for creating and lifting America's economy, which had a significant impact on economies around the world; and


Whereas African-Americans find it necessary to reaffirm their status as a people, through the Plebiscite, this time for the purpose of seeking due and proper Equity-Restorative Justice, and to unite in mutual solidarity for the purpose of stipulating the Five Phase Plan as their agenda, presenting a multifaceted approach that works to cover all angles necessary to win reparations; and


Whereas in 1989 the historic bill H.R. 40 was introduced by Congressman John Conyers, which is now in effect, of which its primary purpose is “to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865, and to establish a commission to examine the Institution of Slavery, subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of those forces on them today, to make recommendations to congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes” said bill being titled the 'Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African-Americans Act'; and


Whereas over the past several decades, a variety of activist, experts, scholars and organizations, representing the interests of Black People, have previously studied the crucial issue of harm suffered by African-Americans over the past five centuries even prior to 1619 and after 1865, including slavery both its components and legacy, thus considering all of the intense social, political, and economic setbacks and resulting harm that has befallen Black People, in this effort to seek compensation and recover their wrongfully stolen dignity, history and heritage as a people; and


Whereas knowing other peoples have received reparations for lesser crimes, it is fair for Black People to receive Reparations now! for greater crimes of slavery, that were far more in number, much more severe, and lasted for a much longer period of time, extending across centuries harming generations!


Now therefore African-descended people in America, do hereby solemnly Proclaim and Mandate the following articles, as both immediate measures and proposals for further action:


Article the First: We, here and henceforth highly resolved and united in our determination, shall carry forward in manners both judicial and extra-judicial, a massive campaign for reparations, consisting of economic boycotts, selective buying, lawsuits, legislative advocacy (signed letters, emails and faxes), public protests, various forms of debates, town hall meetings and due processes of natural law based on international notions of justice, always non-violent in its intent, nature, and execution herein declared, making our Calling and Mandate for reparations clear to America and the world;


Article the Second: We, Black Americans make in full agreement and total solidarity our reparations demand via an Executive Order from the president of the United States; followed by a temporary process of Equity-Restorative Justice, which shall convene and be brought to fruition; this course of action shall come to be known as the United States of America Truth and Reconciliation Process;


Article the Third: The Truth and Reconciliation Process shall provide for the inception of several principal bodies known as commissions, each providing for essential factors of reparations in the Equity-Restorative Justice process, and each with a mandate to collaborate closely with the others in their missions, in order to produce an African-American Reparations Package, these commissions shall include but are not limited to the following:


* a Truth Commission for the all inclusive hearing, recording, and documentation of the historical, current and continuing grievances of, and injuries to, the descendants of Africans living in America;


* a Trial Commission for the consideration and support of potential legal actions such as claims in equity or law, indictments, tribunals, trials, reviewing the cases of political prisoners, 3 strikes victims and other Black People who were wrongfully incarcerated or falsely charged with a crime that remains on their record, and/or any other civil or criminal proceedings that would restore justice;


* an Amnesty Commission for the deliberation of acts of mercy, acquittal, and symbolic or ceremonial forgiveness to encourage racial healing and equality in all spheres of life;


* a Cooperative Commission to be populated by Whites, Jews and other peoples who believe Blacks deserve reparations, whose function will be to identify members of their own peoples, who are known to have enslaved Black People and/or have benefited from exploiting them in any way, to appoint representatives of those persons, groups and governments, who were and are responsible for historic and current injustices perpetrated against African-Americans, making proper assessments of damages done and providing provisions for restitution;


* a Talented Tenth Commission to be populated by influential, prominent and wealthy African-Americans, along with Blacks who have a track record of helping their people, whom believe Blacks deserve reparations, and for the purpose of using their ideas and experience in all phases of the Tribunal and T&R process, for assessing the 10-15 proposals that shall be put forth by the Reparations Commission that will form the Reparations Package, and most important of all to utilize their expertise including various strategies to create an economic foundation for African-Americans;

* a Black History and Culture Commission to work for the purpose of recovering, documenting, and preserving the glorious history of Africa and African-Americans, emphasizing the creation and support of events such as Kwanzaa to support this cause;


* a Planning and Executive Commission which shall deliberate the formation and functions of the other commissions, engender, receive and consider nominations to populate them, establish charitable foundations, trusts, and similar legal and organizational entities, plan for the proper, effective, and equitable receipt and distribution of any material reparations awarded to African-Americans which need to be processed, invested or dealt with in any like manner, and shall also extend any other reparations-related missions of goodwill for Black People;


* a Reparations Commission to receive, consider and formulate proposals for symbolic and material reparations to be awarded unconditionally to African-Americans as compensation for stolen labor, lost economic opportunities, political disenfranchisement, and other historical, current and continuing injustices; the Mandate of the Reparations Commission shall include but are not limited to the due and proper consideration of the following 10 proposals to go into a Reparations Package;


-1- the stipulation for a Reparations Fund to facilitate actions, studies and research efforts in the Five Phase Plan, especially the commissions, to conceive measures for an acceptable package, ensuring the production of a sound Reparations Package to be divided among eight regional governing bodies;


-2- the creation of 'African Cultural Academies' designed to teach and recognize Classical African Civilizations, achievements, contributions, Black History and Black Culture, which precedes studying slavery and the serious problems it caused, as we explain reparations as the solution to override stereo types, exclusion, oppression and racism, and for spiritual guidance to induce framework for raising collective consciousness among African-Americans to seek peace and progress for their entire race;


-3- the condition for collective compensation to aid in developing racial advances, by way of allotting endowments to build and improve existing historically black institutions and organizations including an amendment to rid them of unfair funding practices and barriers from outside forces that prohibit the full array of learning and creativity in schools and work settings, to build new black cities along with awarding individual compensation for race conscious scholars of up to $100,000 and a negotiated amount for all Blacks 55 and above for anywhere between $200,000 and $2,000,000 each, tax free;


-4- the measure for tax free emergency aid or employment for blacks between the ages of 18-34 for $2,500 a month and ages 35-54 for $5,000 a month for personal management or building new sovereign or repatriated settlements, small business grants of up to $250,000, and understanding the Reparations Fund is an economic foundation consisting of losses from withheld wages from slavery, punitive damages during that time and all the other unfair social, psychological and financial practices that worked together to prevent equality, which will lead towards developing cooperative economics;


-5- the granting of habitable and productive tracts of land for the purpose of building Sovereign Settlements with a complete infrastructure including quality homes and parks reflecting the beauty of Ancient African Structures, and producing facilities and services for Blacks living in integrated areas;


-6- the establishment of appropriate hospitals, recovery and restoration centers and community based programs for complete health care, rehabilitation to cope with (PTSS) and other emotional disorders, insisting on emancipation for current and former inmates and resolving black on black conflicts;


-7- the preparation and revelation of an in depth analysis study on institutional exclusion, racial oppression, the criminal justice system, law enforcement officers, the disproportionate number of Blacks in prison, political prisoners, and the escalating issues facing their seniors for (health care, social security, social outings and transportation), their adults for (counseling, jobs and housing), their teens for (after school and mentoring) and their infants for (pre-natal and pre-school) programs;


-8- the initiative for 50-100 years of tax relief and debt forgiveness for Africa, African-Americans and Blacks of the Diaspora, including outstanding government-guaranteed loans for students and graduates for education and/or employment purposes;


-9- the urgent compensatory mechanism for higher quality in schools, instructors and supplies available to African-Americans in public and private schools grades K-12;


-10- the provision for a 50-100 year period of time of free books, tuition, and fees to private and public schools in grades K-12 and vocational schools, colleges and universities, through the level of the Doctorate, which should include job placement in corporate America or creating exclusive black corporations, to provide thousands of jobs for qualified Blacks in every region of America which are heavily populated by Blacks;


The Mandate of the Reparations Commission shall also include giving due and proper consideration to the sentiments, wishes, and intentions of African-Americans to find equality or social and economic justice in our Integrated society, in Repatriated communities abroad or in Sovereign settlements in all states with large black communities; such that these three underlying contingencies, possibilities and models are explored in those reparations proposals considered, so that no victim of these injustices, nor their descendents, are omitted, neglected or ruled out of reparations in the ERJ process, unless by choice, or tried and found guilty of being a sell out or conspirator in the upcoming Tribunal.


In Conclusion, and as a Call for Unity: We, the African-descended people of America, extend a mandate and entreaty even unto our own people to gratefully receive any fair and just reparations extended to us, not only by those specific governments, ethnic groups, corporations, institutions, families and/or individuals who were responsible in some manner for the inhumane and exploitative treatment of African-Americans, but also as in-kind acts of just and compassionate recompense by other peoples of America whether existing in America, or operating abroad under the sanction of other governments or localities; In return, we give our personal appreciation, good will, and thanks for their just consideration of our plight and the continuing harm done to our people, that we may begin the process to feel whole and recovered, both as a people and individuals, thus rebuilding our collective spiritual consciousness and self-esteem, to continue to rise above and transcend the conditions which have oppressed and constrained us, all of this in the name, honor, and memory of our African and African-American ancestors, both those remembered and long forgotten.


Brotha Pruitt - Reparations Leader


Chairman - Committee for African-American Reparations (CAAR) CA
Chairman - Reparations Union Lobby Association (RULA) NC
1243 West Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28208


AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION:
To carry out the provisions in the Five Phase Plan the authorization of a $21,000,000.00 government grant should be appropriated to the RULA.





African-American Reparations
The Five Phase Plan By Brotha Pruitt
A Strategy to Win and Administrate Black Reparations


Phase I: African-Americans Atone and Organize


Phase II: Hold a Plebiscite for Sovereignty (Requires Independent Land and Infrastructure)

Phase III: Form the Reparations Union Lobbying Association (RULA power base) and Data Base

Phase IV: Initiate the African-American Reparations Tribunal

Phase V: Conduct the United States of America Truth and Reconciliation Process

This is a step by step approach aimed at bringing African-Americans together in a spiritual and committed sense, for the purpose of pursuing rights they sacrificed and lost lives for, but failed to gain in the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). Blacks were fed up because they were denied basic civil and human rights since slavery, so they decided to have boycotts, freedom rides, marches, protests and sit-ins to demand an end to unacceptable conditions. African-Americans participated in the CRM with hopes of reaching equality, by attempting to use legal means to dismantle segregation and acquire the right to vote. They have not reached equality and they continue to count on laws and enforcement to protect due process, participation and ballot counts in elections. They are facing similar problems today affecting them socially, politically and economically in systematic injustices with housing, employment, health care, family and public services. Blacks should realize the pattern of discrimination they face in all areas of people activity and participate in this course of action to address these issues, which will motivate the majority of their people to move with the same urgency and cohesiveness, as they did during the CRM. Blacks never took the time to form a power base to address these issues after Dr. King was assassinated and the CRM died, which left problems lingering and growing worse. Now blacks are facing terrible conditions all across America which should inspire them to take a stand for their rights! They should engage those with experience and expertise in every field to investigate and report on crimes that caused problems to arise after generations of injustice. The Five Phase Plan is an outline for action capable of showing indisputable evidence of those crimes occurring, how they affect African-Americans today and presenting a comprehensive strategy to find solutions. The strategy entails a multitude of systems covering a wide range of paths, which facilitates cataloging and creating methods for problem solving, focusing on gaining equality and sovereignty.


African-Americans have been damaged both collectively and individually in the worst ways you could imagine. Black people should tell their story from their point of view. It would enable them to clarify damages and submit claims for repair. They should participate in this or any process that takes them in this direction. There are far too many group and personal problems posing serious danger to their people for them to carry on with business as usual. It is their responsibility to decide when they will engage in collective action to solve problems. African-Americans should focus on reparations as the solution, to the point of inducing it as a common thought among their people, so that they can start thinking and talking about ways to reach equality and sovereignty. {This should motivate blacks to examine racism, historical problems and poor conditions they live in today, which will exemplify their need for repair!}. The Five Phase Plan meets these criteria and has no limits. It calls for blacks and others to discuss facts regarding patterns, policies and people, which have and still do, set up and sustain racial problems. This examination will reveal a list of thirty reasons which qualifies blacks for reparations, which I will share later, but for now let's prioritize a few to review. (1) Racism/White Supremacy triggering 500 years of Spiritual and Cultural Deception! (2) The intentional cruelty and brutality of Slave Ports all around Africa, the Middle Passage, Slave Breaking Colonies and Slavery! (3) 246 years of withheld wages from slave labor and wealth from inventions and contributions! (4) PTSS or Psychological Abuse caused by lasting affects from deeply embedded emotional damage, induced by vicious racial attacks, police brutality and lynching over the last 500 years! And (5) Jim Crow Segregation, which harmed blacks for 100 years immediately after slavery! Blacks, Whites and Jews should work together in this capacity to form commissions to evaluate these problems as well as others listed as qualifications for reparations. They should pursue reparations in a persistent fashion just as they went after black equality in the CRM. They should work together in phase five until they produce an African-American Reparations Package. {The package will include means to restore blacks to their peaceful and productive lifestyle prior to slavery}!! Blacks should rebuild their culture and communities with aid similar to that of which victims of WW II received, because blacks are victims of elusive yet deadly population control schemes and have been under silent attack for the last 500 years!! We can prove this with case studies on Racism, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), AIDS, the war on Drugs, The Black Matrix http://www.divineblacktruth.org/,and Gentrification, all of which cause severe damage. In light of the fact that blacks are victims of lasting effects from slavery and on-going assaults, proves they deserve reparations! Now here's the strategy to win reparations!!

Phase 1: African-Americans Atone and Organize -
When blacks decide to take collective action it will notify America and the world of their intentions to initiate a massive campaign for reparations! The first step is to agree on a plan. Then call on the masses through churches, various groups and media outlets to promote and support the plan, as it is being done in their best interest. African-Americans would begin discussing reparations focusing on the Five Phase Plan at colleges, community and grass roots organizations, churches and all social functions. Blacks should begin to discuss reparations at every meal and opportunity. African-Americans should insist reparations are on the agenda and given prime and ample time at programs like the State of the Black World Conference, State of the Black Union, BET and other awards shows, and all other programs that are supposed to honor and benefit blacks. The call will be put out for blacks to use the Five Phase Plan to atone, (which means to strive to improve self, relations with other blacks and attaining excellence), as they organize around reparations. This will create unity and enable blacks to finish their struggle for equality they started in the Civil Rights Movement! Statistically blacks are far from equality and economic gaps are increasing! They need to take action!

Historically: Most African-Americans disapprove of social and institutional exclusion which prevents them from reaching equality. They are tired of police brutality and racial oppression and are asking Black-Churches, faith based and community groups, to summon Black leaders and the masses to join this effort, by uniting and forming a power base, to fight to bring an end to injustice, inequality and disparities. It is critical for blacks to form a power base so they can fight against all forms of racism and prejudice, which would pave the way for them to show the need for reparations. {Blacks should get serious about finishing the battles they started for equality in the CRM}. {African-Americans should understand pursuing reparations represents that continued struggle for equality}. The Black Family should be involved in this effort by questioning the work of reparations groups and demanding that each group make their plan public so we can decide which plan is the best. The Black Family must make a collective decision to participate in a plan/strategy so that reparations groups can lead the charge to pursue reparations. This will operate in the best interest of the masses as blacks go through a process to atone and decide which plan is best for them to pursue reparations. Reparations work is going to take more personnel than all the reparations groups can provide. So reparations groups will identify those who are doing and have done reparations work and teach concerned folks how to do reparations work.

* The Five Phase Plan contains a strategy to consider ideas from all people for recovery and restitution. This plan guarantees all reparations groups and concerned citizens working in unison to evaluate plans and reactions. {Spiteful and malicious reactions will expose sell outs, and activity of those who work in secret with those who oppose reparations, even if they exist within reparations groups}! Blacks who are found guilty of this activity will be punished just as America punishes those found guilty of being a traitor, high treason and threatening national security.
Socially: African-Americans must become a resilient people by dedicating themselves to this journey for justice. They should atone first to improve self, (No one is perfect), which will help them rise to erect a new collective conscious and reduce black on black conflicts. This will inspire the masses to embrace spiritual renewal and collective movement. {The descendants of slaves' encountered psychological abuse no other people experienced, which requires rehabilitation}. {They were never compensated for their labor or patriotism}. {And they never received land (40 acres and a mule), they were promised to build an infrastructure}. {This knowledge and plan should prepare blacks to use reparations resources most appropriately and effectively}.
Culturally: African-Americans were previously held captive in dungeons, misused on slave ships, enslaved, then forced to lose their names, languages and heritage. Now cultural genocide plus becoming a displaced people caused disruptions in their senses, stability and potential for growth. African-Americans need an instructional instrument to recover their stolen identity. As black scholars produce a program for that purpose African-Americans should assume atonement by taking an honest look at self, society and history. Many folks say blacks are their own worst enemy but they do not consider the ramifications of slavery or segregation, which has become white privilege and preferential treatment. Blacks suffer much greater harm at the hands of systematic abuse of power imposed by conferred dominance of the ruling race. Some blacks seem to be in denial of the overwhelming powers that be that have created and maintained a system to maintain white supremacy. A system that forces them to live in overpopulated under serviced areas, prohibits them from having equal opportunities and designates them as inferior. Traditional rites of passage practices have been replaced by ineffective social services programs causing black on black crime to multiply. Since they get no respect from the system they lost respect for the system. These factors keep blacks disenfranchised and portrayed as deviant and menaces to society. {Mistreatment and misperceptions has prevented our government from awarding blacks reparations for land grants, to create and build communities and institutions. Blacks would have established this infrastructure if they would have received equal pay for hard core slave labor and vital contributions. Land is a key part of reparations}.

Spiritually: We know blacks have endured massive damage in many areas but mainly sacred and religious spectrums. It has caused a disconnection from their thinking process to uphold Godly and family values. As victims of long lasting and extreme prejudice most African-Americans have lost touch with God and their collective conscious. Black Churches, faith-based and cultural oriented groups are best suited to mend this situation but outside and internal forces caused them to split into many different factions. This may have been best at that time but now the factions should convene to see if they can form one or two groups, to revive the Black Family and pursue reparations! {We are looking to all spiritual and cultural leaders to develop programs for African-Americans to reclaim their traditional spiritual and cultural customs as a group and to find comfort in forming and strengthening their personal relationships with God}.
Mentally: African-Americans never dealt with lasting dormant trauma of slavery in experiencing loss of family and physical abuse on a daily basis; locked in chains, witnessing intense violence compounded by emotional torture. The after shock of such atrocity has been explained in scientific terms as Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), which blacks suffer from, but are not acknowledging its root cause, or receiving proper treatment. They are being forced to overcome this mental imposition without adequate psychological or emotional therapy; which is mandatory for repair; in order to become whole people in mind, body and soul. Blacks can revitalize themselves and improve their relationships by studying ideology of Classical African Civilizations and developing a racial hierarchy. The process will become natural as they organize with this plan following atonement, tolerating their differences to work towards a common goal of gaining respect and winning reparations!!!

Phase 2: Hold a Plebiscite for Sovereignty
Plebiscite: A vote among African-Americans establishing a political unit to determine identity, autonomy and/or affiliations with other peoples and countries. The Plebiscite shows blacks will exercise their right to be recognized as a people striving for independence and self-determination.

Sovereignty: Most importantly, sovereignty is developing a new conscious that forms the basis of a philosophy, which motivates a people to seek their own land for self-government, to declare their own political and ideological theories and destination. It denotes leaving the shackles of integration and gaining control over their lives, stipulating absolute power and authority of a consenting people to form a government to manage all, activities, territory and resources within its borders. Sovereignty also refers to the inherent right of all people to govern themselves without foreign interference.

Reasons for and Steps to Apply the Plebiscite
Dr. Ansari suggest {the Plebiscite as an alternative to integration demanding their constitutional rights in a political move for African-Americans to claim a special injured and indigenous status with rights to land, rehabilitative services, educational adjustments and communication monopolies}. {A majority yes plebiscite vote among blacks would give them as African descendants a cognizable legal status that will target and defer trillions of dollars to build new black cities, institutions and stimulate collective and personal growth}!!!! {A Plebiscite will automatically qualify blacks for immediate compromises for large-scale construction, farming, real estate, grocery stores, entertainment complexes and unrestricted local, national and international trade}.

Special indigenous status and minority self-determination are options for a person or people created in slavery or a colonial conflagration. The UN politically categorized those victims as autochthon indigenous. The states of the world at the 56th session of the Human Rights Commission have agreed to comprehensive and enforceable internationally proscribed reparations to those people, groups or nations who have suffered human rights abuses such as slavery, torture, genocide, kidnapping and murder. African-Americans happen to be victims of all of those crimes! The offending states of Spain, France and the United States have participated and agreed to these principles!

a. Blacks would be informed of autonomous land settlements, various forms of businesses, services and specific amenities that other groups have received after claiming an injured and indigenous status.

b. (1st vote) Blacks exclaim group distinction by voting in the Plebiscite to choose a suitable name ranging from African, Black or Indigenous-American to any other names appearing on the ballot. The name they choose should connect them to their native land, ancestors, culture and current status.

c. International attorneys will approach the proper channels in Geneva to turn their claim for a special injured and indigenous status into international law. (Claiming their name and identity in this process)

d. (2nd vote) Blacks would use the ballot again to elect governing bodies for their regional sovereign land settlements, practicing their will for self-determination, liberation, freedom and nation building.

Understanding Sovereignty
Ezrah Aharone describes valuable points of sovereignty pertaining to blacks, including the most critical of all unresolved issues of slavery concerning the reclaiming of their heritage. “Slavery deprived them of their freedom, but even more significant is that slavery dispossessed them of their sovereignty,” sovereignty (not integration) is the pinnacle of all freedoms. Blacks are supposedly a “free people,” but they are not a “sovereign people”. * {Sovereignty will enable the government to set aside reparations land for blacks to build new cities and institutions to serve their needs}!

Aharone explains today's sociopolitical landscape by surgically dissecting and separating the flaws and misperceptions from the realities of American democracy. {While Black America's Concept of Freedom has historically been limited to “Civil Rights, Integration, and Equality,” the Euro-American Concept of Freedom entails nothing less than “Sovereignty, Independence, and Statehood}. {This conceptual distinction “Is the most consequential, yet most unrecognized, source of racial disharmony and inequality}. As a result, certain sociopolitical conditions that Whites would never tolerate have become normalized within the Black Experience. In comparing the historical parallels, and then asserting that today's 1 Black governor, 1 Black senator, and the scant percentage of blacks in the H.R., constitutes a modern case of “Taxation without Representation.” Since this was a primary factor sparking the Revolutionary War, Aharone concludes that Black America has unknowingly accepted a political “way of life,” which history proves, White America would violently oppose. A new sovereign conscious will inspire blacks to outgrow feelings of racial discomfort and demand full rights!

Sovereign-minded frames of references questions the core of mainstream body politics and leads to redefined ideals and worldviews that better serve Black/African interests. The sovereign philosophy and outlook “helps to bridge the political and philosophical gap that now separates Hip Hop from the Civil Rights/Black Power generation”. When blacks embrace sovereignty it will lead to independence.

The solutions to the most critical of Black America's problems do not lie within America's current “Brand of Democracy.” They must look inside themselves and realize they have the knowledge and wisdom to initiate analytical and critical thinking to solve their problems. Developing a sovereign consciousness will help blacks understand the root causes of their problems, specifically racism/white supremacy, and offer prescriptions to remedy failures of American democracy and socialization, in order for blacks to reach equality. The system was not designed for blacks to be successful as a group. The masses continue to face high levels of unemployment, poor housing, inadequate health care and they will not go to college. The system has failed them so they need to look at alternatives to integration. {The Five Phase Plan will assist blacks in developing a sovereign consciousness and explore sovereign ideals that will produce revolutionary and race-defined solutions}.

Phase 3: Form the Reparations Union Lobbying Association (RULA) and build a Database
This phase includes the creation of a power base or a national Reparations Union Lobbying Association (RULA) consisting of local Reparations Union Lobbying Groups (RULG). African-Americans will form and lead the RULA, as others join them to pursue reparations solidifying the Five Phase Plan as the agenda, which will remain open for amendments. African-Americans should keep the RULA in place to hold everyone involved accountable. {The RULA will empower African-Americans to react to racism and hate crimes, and work towards initiating actions and laws to protect their people, serve their interest, honor their request and prevent future transgressions}!! {The RULA will have its board and members work to establish and connect local RULGs with local Black Churches and faith and cultural based organizations; to announce their intentions to collaborate to pursue reparations and designate voting places and training bases}. {This is where blacks will hold the Plebiscite votes and train folks to build, police and maintain an infrastructure, including homes, businesses, institutions, parks, roads and highways and all other practicalities, services and recreational facilities required to establish new repatriated and sovereign cities}.

The RULA recognizes the non-existent or ineffective means to address racism and priority problems such as (Natural Disasters - Gentrification - Housing - Elections - Unemployment - The Court System - Healthcare - AIDS - the War on Drugs & Police Brutality etc. etc.). This inability keeps blacks in a subservient position and leaves them vulnerable to a cycle of criminal and inhumane activity. These unsolved problems are causing unnecessary death and destruction in their communities. {Blacks are losing lives, property and progress gained from hundreds of years of struggle!!, that culminated in the Civil Rights Movement! Blacks must change this trend by forming the RULA power base to solve their problems}!! {Haters broaden divisions among blacks by using other blacks to cause confusion and conflicts}!! {They manipulate the creation and expansion of AIDS, Drugs, Psychiatric Treatments, and other forms of legal and illegal malpractices that harm blacks, and allow them to spread and continue}! {They prey on the inability of African-Americans to detect, defend and take action when problems of this nature occur. Blacks can change all of this by forming the RULA power base}!!!

African-Americans know of laws, policies and politicians who have a very negative impact on them and their communities. The problem is they have no mechanism in place to expose and react to those forces, if not attempting to prevent them. The RULA power base would operate as a resource center and voting block to take the black vote in one direction that would operate to eliminate these issues. Blacks could use this power base to place folks in office or remove them just as they would do with laws and policies that help or harm them. {The RULA will fill this leadership void and act as an organization that stands prepared to protect Blacks just as the ADL and the JDL protects Jews}!!!!

RULA Purpose
* First: the RULA will function as a power base providing guidance for blacks to address racism, other critical issues, gain sovereignty and win reparations. Brotha Pruitt proposes economic boycotts, selective buying, faith based and town hall debates, domestic and international lawsuits and lobbying efforts utilizing RULA sources as a means to win reparations.

* Second: the RULA will defend blacks against social, political and/or physical attacks. When blacks attempt to unite to fight for their people outside forces prevent the effort or people who do not have their best interest in mind recruit disloyal blacks (agent provocateurs and sellouts) to stop the effort.

* Third: the RULA will expose and discipline race traitors and sell outs.

* Fourth: {PREPARING for NATIONAL BOYCOTTS}. African-Americans can learn the significance and mighty impact of a well-planned national boycott. {Organizing a national boycott that includes naming certain government agencies and corporations to target is a very serious notion that would get America's attention immediately}!! It is going to take a move of this magnitude for blacks to get any kind of respect and win reparations!!! {A national boycott will place the government and various corporations in a position of feeling the economic and social strength of blacks}. African-Americans would be in a position to produce, negotiate and submit a prototype Reparations Package, which the government could sign as law for reparations as immediate relief and time table compromises. The government, various corporations and other guilty parties named would be responsible for filling the requirements in the package. A well planned national boycott will force America to move quickly to endorse and enforce reparations. God will bless this effort because this is a spiritual course of action blacks can take that is unparalleled in the history of their pursuit of justice.

* Fifth: the RULA will identify forces and people who attack black leaders and groups because they are preventing black unity and progress, and we will label them and bring them to justice.

* Sixth: the RULA will use phases 4 and 5 to produce documented evidence that proves the government and other entities are responsible for enslaving and exploiting blacks, and that it is their duty to repair the damage, which includes emotional injuries and economic loss. Phases 4 and 5 will permit African-Americans and those sympathetic to their condition to produce a valid Reparations Package that the government should stipulate as legislation.

* Seventh: the RULA will use phases 4 and 5 to design the package; which will come to approximately $50 trillion, deferred over a 100-200 year period. Remember in this case we are showing blacks were damaged over the last 500 years so the moral and economic recuperation period should resemble in duration.

RULG Objectives
* First: to study and learn the purpose of the Five Phase Plan and create or adopt local RULG bylaws and agenda to introduce the national RULA power base.

* Second: to elect a cabinet to conduct their business, a chair, co-chair, facilitator and historian. To list their duties and responsibilities, which may be included in the bylaws.


* Third: to create an agenda that includes reporting on local, national and international issues affecting African-Americans.

* Fourth: the RULGs will suggest sovereignty as a solution for racism as they aggressively seek reparations land. Blacks will learn the skills to build new cities, and own and operate corporations and institutions required to form an infrastructure. Blacks will become an independent people who are producers' not just consumers. Sovereignty will provide African-Americans the opportunity to use the latest technology and their own people to build their own new communities. This would create an economic foundation, peaceful living and gainful and meaningful employment for thousands of African-Americans in various regions at home (Sovereignty) and abroad (Repatriation)!!!!!

* Fifth: design and implement reparations programs for career and financial planning and improving educational curriculums along with exalting family values. This would revamp (Integration) by upgrading public facilities and open (Sovereignty) by securing independent land. The procedure will include creating rehabilitation programs and services so blacks can cope with harmful situations, stimulants and habits and develop the will to reach their full potential as a people and individuals. The RULGs will help blacks reduce self-destructive behavior, promote racial harmony and install a new philosophy among African-Americans and in Black Studies of winning and using reparations wisely.


* Sixth: most importantly reparations resources will be used to commence all three models of reparations, because we know some blacks want to (1st) improve Integration, which requires removing all racial barriers and enjoying the rights and privileges of White Americans; while others want to (2nd) establish Repatriation, or go back to Africa with ample resources; while others want to (3rd) set up Sovereignty, which requires obtaining land settlements and forming an interim government.

Building a Data Base
A (Database) will show documented evidence supporting the need for reparations, identify blacks who want reparations and list blacks who refute reparations. The RULA will collect facts and infuse ideas from groups and individuals to stipulate African-American Reparations are only for blacks who want reparations. The data base will also allow us to document what remedies and concessions should be awarded as reparations and how they should be administered. The RULA will use cases of injustice to direct local and national information for updates, activities and planning national boycotts.

The data base serves to notify all Africans and Black organizations to support the effort, or become candidates for a tribunal; because all blacks know they have been injured and they need to address the ills that have arisen from the worst crime in history (slavery); with the best opportunities to heal. Slavery caused so much damage until Africans everywhere need an opportunity to evolve in all areas of human endeavor and existence.

The data base would also serve to critically, but lovingly define or establish that the TRUE benefit or message is the recognition of the damage that has been done; the altered, disturbed, fragmented spirit deep in the psyche of all blacks (even if they think they have recovered from it, via religious, education, social, class or political affiliation). People of African Ancestry should collectively attempt to use the Five Phase Plan as a global transition tool for social, political and economic reform. This is a difficult task that will be made easy by delegating the responsibility to a commission, as other priority issues will be handled in phase five. AFRICAN-AMERICANS SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR COLLECTIVE DEMISE AND PREPARE TO ESTABLISH A NEW EXISTENCE.

Phase 4: Initiate the Reparations Tribunal
Imam Talib suggests a consortium of African-Americans consisting of activist and professionals ranging from volunteers to attorneys, economist, educators and geologist to agriculturalist, scholars, sociologist and rehabilitative experts. Their duties include identifying problems created by slavery, segregation and state sponsored discrimination. {The Victims Reparations Guidelines (VRG) is an international document that specifies victims of displacement and gross human rights violations have a right to claim restitution for reparative measures}!!! {Africans were placed in unfamiliar lands, had no rights, were forced to eat food that was not compatible with their digestive tract and socialized by Adverse or Willie Lynch Indoctrination}!!!! {This led to developing severe mental and physiological problems, which placed blacks at a serious disadvantage because they were victims of hate crimes based on race}!!! {They were taught that living in a second class position under the oppressor is customary, and that blacks should not like or trust one another}!!! This left them with no social or political stability. {This conditioning forced Africans to take on the ways of their oppressors, which presents multiple problems}!! The Tribunal is a forum to disclose all of those problems, which came about as a result of enduring such devastating experiences for such long periods of time. As victims of these crimes blacks need a comprehensive plan allowing as much time to heal as they were damaged.

The VRG names the government and other entities as perpetrators of these crimes and holds them accountable for making the victims of these crimes whole. Victims of these crimes have a right to receive rehabilitation that is designed to mend suppressed anxiety, and point them in the direction of learning life skills for success, as opposed to becoming dependent on public assistance. {Victims of these crimes have a right to claim an injured and indigenous status qualifying them for land, resources and technology}. {The purpose of examining personal and group injuries in this manner is for blacks to repair their emotional and functional damages and to gain sovereignty in a land where they have constantly been deprived of their constitutional rights}. {When studying previous attempts aimed at helping blacks trying to reach equality or sovereignty, the best remedy was to build their own new communities. This is a solution they should consider today}. {African-Americans have been victims of harassment for hundreds of years. Reparations will provide an opportunity for them to recuperate and develop the desire to forgive those who harmed them}!!!! The Tribunal will utilize the VRG and other effective documents to demonstrate the reparations argument and postulate remedies for blacks to accept or decline in the 3rd Plebiscite vote. The out come will reveal what the masses feel are appropriate for reparations, which will help formulate the Reparations Package and spark a united demand to submit the Reparations Package to congress. Blacks can not let others design the package! They will try to trick them like they did with welfare, integration, bussing and affirmative-action!! It must be a joint effort following suggested remedies from the Tribunal and T&R Process!!!

Phase 5: Conduct the Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) Process
In John Wilmerding's view Blacks, Whites, Jews and others can use the Reparations Proclamation as a guide to form commissions to present true accounts of ancient Africans from past to present; and to identify all problems with the intent of developing solutions. They will focus on issues and problems that have caused great harm to African-Americans, because America does not hear the cry from the masses of blacks for relief!!!

{Ancient Africans were loyal to God, respected Mother Nature and they governed their territory accordingly}!!!! They developed the concepts for language, math and science and they discovered precious metals and minerals that aided them in developing advanced societies. They charted the movement of the stars, which allowed them to develop the concepts for time, travel and trade. This provided the basis for them to develop cultures that are models for society as we know it today!!! The conditions blacks live in today do not reflect the appreciation of a people who have made these valuable contributions for mankind!!! The conditions they live in reflects that of a people who have had the fruits of their labor withheld, which is exactly what happened to them in slavery!!! The conditions the masses of their people live in today reflects the status of a people who need help! They should be conscious of idle threats, retaliatory actions and lynch mob violence, but this should not prevent them from attempting to stand up for themselves by participating in the Five Phase Plan. African-Americans believe the commissions will adhere to the desire of their people, which is to produce models for social, economic and educational reform and psychological rehabilitation.

Following are examples of commissions. They will lead the investigative and exploratory process in order to release findings showing the need for reparations as solutions and models for change:

AN ETHICS COMMISSION to develop a formula to evaluate the psychological damage caused by experiencing the atrocities of Slave Ports all around Africa, the Middle Passage, Slave Breaking Colonies, Slavery, Cross Burnings, Nooses Hanging, Lynching, PTSS and today's Black Suffrage. By revealing suppressed and acute trauma they can determine rehabilitative measures.

AN ECONOMIC and ADVISORY COMMISSION will conduct investigations and releases findings on the assessment of lost wages from slave labor and lost profits from slave crop production. They will give assessments of lost profits from Black contributions including achievements, discoveries, innovations and inventions. This sanctions them to determine the economic loss from slavery, share cropping, exploitation, disparity in wages and corporate and family unjust enrichment. This will enable them to determine reasonable compensation.

A POLITICAL COMMISSION will explain the three models of reparations; Improving Integration, Establishing Repatriation and Creating Sovereignty. They will examine the success and/or failure of the integration period, repatriated efforts and sovereign all black towns, organizations and institutions. This will provide the foundation for advancing integration, developing repatriation and initiating sovereignty.

ENGINEERS and SCIENTIST have a commission to make assessments of the 30 reasons the RULA lists for blacks to claim reparations, in addition to other reasons that may surface during the Tribunal and/or T&R Process.

A REPARATIONS COMMISSION will evaluate all comprehensive reparations plans and utilize all reports and proposals from various commissions, organizations and independent scholars, to produce a sound and solid Reparations Package. The Reparations Commission, ultimately, will identify and evaluate damages and monetary losses from all areas, so that they can postulate fair recompense, which will amount to approximately $50 trillion, deferred over a 100-200 year period.

Summary:
Phase I: Atone and Organize
All Black Churches, faith and cultural-based organizations will join the masses in the name of reparations, to begin the atonement process to improve self, reduce black-on-black conflicts and elevate the concept of instilling collective consciousness, promoting love for and between all blacks.

Phase II: Hold a Plebiscite for Sovereignty
A consenting vote among blacks for many reasons. First, to acknowledge their desire for freedom and independence. Second, to select a suitable name for their identity. Third, to create a temporary government to administrate all affairs on their sovereign land. Fourth, they will take their proposition to the United Nations to lobby for their claim to be called the name they choose in the 1st Plebiscite vote. Fifth, to become recognized as a people with special injured status and indigenous rights by law.

Phase III: Form the Reparations Union Lobbying Association (RULA) and Data Base
Create and implement a power base via the national RULA and local RULG organizations that will serve to protect blacks and assist them in winning and administering reparations. African-Americans will also collect evidence for the database showing blacks are still victims of racism and that there is a great need for reparations, which will provide information for RULA activities such as national boycotts, and developing the Reparations Package. * {We will also list African-Americans and/or black groups who refute reparations to make sure they do not receive any benefits from reparations or spoil our plans to win reparations}!!!

Phase IV: Initiate the Reparations Tribunal
An African-American consortium that identifies and assesses personal and group injuries caused by slavery, segregation and state sponsored discrimination. Upon examining their findings they will suggest remedies to fix these historical, lingering and current problems.

Phase V: Conduct the Truth and Reconciliation Process
Blacks, Whites, Jews and others form commissions to produce documentation on true Black History from ancient Africa to present times. They will show extensive damage has been done and they would approach members of their own race, ethnic group, family or corporate entity, with our supporting evidence of how they harmed blacks and benefited from slavery and other forms of exploitation. The purpose is for commission participants to notify their respective people or group of this process, in order to determine what and how much they should contribute to the Reparations Package. This will facilitate justice and racial harmony.

Emancipation Revelation Revolution 3

Emancipation Revelation Revolution 2

Emancipation Revelation Revolution 1

Why Have We Not Heard Of This?

Multiple Claims Alleging Racism Filed Against Planned Parenthood

LOS ANGELES, August 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles is the subject of multiple complaints of racism filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The formal complaints were filed by Afro-American and Latino employees. Specifically, several male employees have officially filed claims, or sworn affidavits, with the EEOC and California Fair Employment & Housing Administration. They allege that Planned Parenthood is controlled by white women who have created a hostile environment for male and minority employees.

According to one affidavit, a management employee of Planned Parenthood "used the word nigger directed to me. I am African and was shocked by her cultural insensitivity. I immediately placed my concerns in writing and requested disciplinary action with the human resources department at PPLA. Nothing ever happened to my complaint. In fact, I was later put on probation by a female supervisor and then terminated. . . . there appeared to be a damaging anti-male bias in the organization."

According to another statement, from a female PPLA contractor responsible for ensuring compliance with EEOC regulations, "[a corporate officer] initiated an investigation on the occasion of one of his employees being called a 'nigger' and he was prevented from finishing this investigation. The perpetrator of this ethnic slur . . . was never punished for this action. . . . [Planned Parenthood] posters showing males as irresponsible are prominently displayed throughout headquarters, one shows an African American leaving his child abandoned in the middle of an apartment, another shows all male US Supreme Court justices beating down on women's rights . . ." The affiant also mentioned that Planned Parenthood had posters criticizing President Bush and denouncing Reverend Jerry Falwell. Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization that is legally required to avoid political activity.

When asked about this case, Scott Lively, President of the Pro-Family Law Center said, "Considering the claim of liberals to hold a higher standard on racism, I'm appalled that a "liberal organization" based in one of the most "liberal" cities in the United States would be so cavalier about racial issues as to allow this type of insulting conduct to occur in its offices."Richard D. Ackerman, the lead attorney for two claimants, says, "This is a really sad state of affairs. It is unfortunate to find out that PPLA, as a self-proclaimed promoter of 'tolerance and diversity,' is engaging in what appears to be the most primitive form of hate against its own employees."
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Black History Month

A commentary

When Will Black Folks Speak Up? (Or "Well Hush My Mouth!")

by Robert Oliver (written in 2007)

Hoodwinked? Had? Took? Led astray? Run amok? Bamboozled? Those who did not know are innocent.

“When are Black folks gonna wake up? When are Black folks gonna wake up? When are Black folks gonna wake up, etc., etc., etc.” I would hear that every day on a certain Black radio station until someone called in and talked about how White men in the South many years ago used to cut…I’m not going to say it. It’s too gruesome. I quit listening to that station regularly after that. But I ask, “When will Black folks speak up?”

I’m very disturbed about what Black folks are not talking about. I fear they have little or no love for African people.

(“Brother, how can you say that?”)

How can I say that? Years ago when apartheid in South Africa was in style, we marched, protested, yelled, screamed, got arrested at South African consulates, etc. I was there when Jacqueline (Mrs. Jesse L.) Jackson and former Congressman Gus Savage were arrested at the South African consulate in downtown Chicago. We were all determined that Black South Africans would not be under the rule of a White minority government, right? Now there is no more apartheid. We left the Black South Africans to fend for themselves. Now it has one of the highest crime rates in the world. But we are not paying any attention to that. We were all vocal against apartheid, but are we vocal against the slaughter of Black Africans going on now in Darfur, Sudan? Prominent African American scholar Cornel West asked of Senator Barack Obama: “How much love do you have for your people?” I ask the same question of Black leaders and Black America in general: how much love do we have for our people?

(“Brother, how can you ask that?”)

Thousands and thousands Black Sudanese have been murdered by culturally-Arab Blacks from the North. That is on top of over 2,000,000 killed in the South over a 20-year period. You can do a Google or Yahoo search (“Sudan” “Darfur”) and get all sorts of information on the mass murders and genocide. A young man told me years ago, “Your actions speak so loud, I can’t hear a word you are saying.”

A brother wrote on his website The Field Negro: “These atrocities against our people take place in other parts of the world, while African Americans choose to do nothing. We go to Durham North Carolina and speak out against the Duke lacrosse team for allegedly raping one of our sisters, or to Mexico to confront their President for making derogatory remarks about us, but there is silence while thousands of black Africans are being slaughtered on a daily basis… I have seen more white people involved in this struggle, and trying to bring this issue to the forefront than blacks. And for that, we as black folks should all be ashamed. The UN called this the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and still black folks in this country remain silent. No outcry, no marches in Washington organized by black leaders, no ink from the black press, nothing; just silence. (http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-silence-is-not-golden.html).”

How much love do we have for our people? When will Black folks speak up?

This is from a former Black nationalist:

“I am a black man, a former nationalist. I became disillusioned with 'black unity and nationalism' during the massacre in Rwanda and Zaire during the mid 1990s. It seemed to me, a student at a historically black college at the time, that black progressives did not lift a finger to protest or press our government or the UN to act to prevent the slaughter amongst black Africans the same way they did apartheid, Haiti, or even the plight of the Palestinians. Why not? Well for one, because there was no white victimizer oppressing people of color, both parties were of the same race. But the main reason was that our black American leadership did not want our intervention in Africa to cost Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party politically. Getting Bill Clinton and some other white Democrat governors, congressmen, and senators re - elected to preserve our puny little integrationist affirmative action and welfare programs was worth more to us than the lives of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of our African brothers and sisters.... Before there can be unity between American blacks and Africans, we black Americans have to start caring more about economic and social turmoil in Africa than we do Halle Berry getting an Oscar. Calling ourselves African Americans (which I honestly believe we have no right to), jumping over brooms at weddings, wearing kente cloth (often made in Korea or China), buying African art (ditto), and lighting candles during Kwanzaa (a black American holiday invented by black Americans for black Americans that has nothing to do with Africa) has nothing to do with addressing the real problems in that continent. Why don't black professionals, who claim that they cannot start or operate businesses or receive fair pay and promotions at European countries, use their talents to help Africa? What is keeping black politicians, who cannot gain any real power to do any good in America, from implementing their liberal reforms in Ghana, Nigeria, or Chad? Rather than doing that, we stay in America and invoke our alleged Africanness merely to spite Europeans. Heck, we blacks didn't even start calling ourselves African Americans en masse until it became the vogue thing to do to stick it to the man and show solidarity with Nelson Mandela during Reagan era....And of course, before there can be unity among Africans, the religious extremism, tribal cultures, and subjugation of women and children have to go. They must accept and adopt modern democratic societies, including economies (if Marxism failed in the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Asia, what makes you think it will work in Africa)? There are no real attempts at unity between blacks and Africans or even Africans and Africans despite all these conferences, nongovernmental organizations, official declarations, etc. It is past time that we stop living a lie and provide real help for Africa (even if it means giving up some of our own agenda in America), and also demand that Africa provide real help for itself, as in stop slaughtering and oppressing each other over tribal differences.(http://www.afrocentricnews.com/html/myth_of_african_unity.html).”

How much love do we have for our people? When will Black folks speak up?

Samuel Cotton, an African American journalist who visited North Africa and was an eyewitness to the slave trade there wrote:

"On March 4, (1995) Black Africans journeyed from all over the United States to meet at Columbia University. Mauritanians and Senegalese from Washington--Ugandans and Sudanese from as far away as Ohio, would spend two days discussing the beast that continues to bite deep into African flesh—slavery….They would also grapple with the enigma of receiving virtually no support on the issue of chattel slavery from African-American spiritual and political leaders….these Africans are refused an audience with Black Christian ministers, who prefer in some cases to wine and dine with their Arab enslavers. Others, are Black Muslims from Mauritania who are dumbfounded and disgusted by the fact that the prominent Black Muslim Leader, Louis Farrakhan continues to visit and have good relations with Sudan which enslaves Black Muslims and Christians alike. They are disillusioned by Black leaders with African names, who live in houses filled with African statues, and walk the streets in full African regalia but will not raise one voice against slavery…."One African stated that 'African Americans have been at the forefront of the international campaign against apartheid. . . Yet as an African working in the field of human rights in Africa, I am constantly struck, and saddened, by the extent to which a combination of factors have discouraged the majority of Black Americans from speaking out about human rights abuses in sub-Saharan Africa.' Said Rakiya Omaar, a Somali, in the Washington Post….Black leaders have no real interest in stopping the buying and selling of Black Africans. This slave trade is common knowledge in Congressional circles (Fortunately Congressman Bobby Rush and a few others are taking a public stand. – Ed.) and shamefully, Black leaders have not educated the African-American public on an issue central to their history. Are Black Americans playing at being Africans and in reality have no real love or attachment to Africa and African people? Could it be that African-Americans are in love with a fantasy Africa and do not possess any real understanding of African realities and world views? These questions require critical thinking that will move African-Americans past the kente cloth and fashion, to examine if there is a relationship between them and the African….Both Africans and African Americans acknowledge a common place of origin, and both have served as human fodder for the Arab slave trade. However, the Black American appears to have forgiven the Arabs for their participation in the slave trade, while they continue to hold the feet of White Americans and Jews to the fire for their participation. Black spiritual and political leaders travel to Islamic Fundamentalist countries where they have ties and friendships, and sources report that Arab money funds a number of Black politicians. In view of the above, when the Mauritanians and Sudanese request help from the African-American, will there be enough content in the Black community to offer support….Black leaders are not trained to find slavery in countries with deceitful governments. In addition, Black ministers, even if they were sincere, do not understand how modern chattel slavery operates in countries with demographics like Mauritania and Sudan--the largest country in Africa. (Black)Leaders…are over their heads in this game and are betraying hundreds of thousands of Africans languishing in slavery (http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/sorrow_shame.html).”

How much love do we have for our people? When will Black folks speak up?

Finally here is a stinging indictment by a native African:“In North America, black Americans constitute the only group of blacks in diaspora with sufficient clout, credibility and experience to help their black brothers and sisters in Africa in their struggle for freedom. The experience gained in the civil rights struggle in the 1960s could have been helpful to black Africans but, in practice, turned out to be more of a hindrance…Black Americans HELPED with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. They tended to see the campaign against apartheid as an extension of their own civil rights struggle. This was understandable since the oppressors and exploiters in both cases were white, the oppressed and exploited, black. But many Africans saw apartheid as merely a special case of the oppression that was rampant across the continent. Further, the analysis of African problems in a rigid "civil rights" or black-white paradigm was not appropriate. In black Africa color was not the issue. Blacks ruled themselves. Although in the past their oppressors and exploiters were white colonialists, today they are black. Perhaps, the innocent oversight of this fundamental difference rendered many black Americans extremely hostile to the notion that some black African leaders head more ruthlessly oppressive regimes than the apartheid system in South Africa, notwithstanding the fact that apartheid is institutionalized…It is also true that in the 1950s black Americans provided vital support to Africans in the liberation struggle against colonialism. In recent times, black Americans have been indefatigable in the campaign for one-man, one-vote for blacks in South Africa. But to the blacks in independent Africa fighting for the same political rights, black Americans have offered little or no support....While black American leaders were at the forefront of calls for immediate democratic reform in South Africa, when it comes to black Africa those same black Americans say it is not America's business to interfere -- even when the victims are Africa's black masses....But no one in that congregation of civil rights leaders, which included Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, talked about the rising slaughter of blacks in West Africa and the senseless civil wars which had produced mounting refugees and grisly spectacles of emaciated bodies of famine victims. Not one single black American civil rights leader condemned Arab apartheid in Mauritania and Sudan and the present-day enslavement of blacks by Arab masters. …Asked about political turmoil and carnage in these black African countries, Benjamin Hooks, director of the NAACP--the world's largest civil rights organization, replied that 'there is little black Americans could or should do directly to help foster or affect political change in Sub-Saharan Africa . . . I don't think it is our business to meddle in their affairs.' Said one incredulous Ivorian student: 'I wish some of these (black) Americans would take to the streets with us instead of supporting the old order' (Washington Post, April 18, 1991; p.A41). A more searing query came from a Liberian exile in the Ivory Coast: 'Why have you black Americans let us down?' (Washington Post, April 20, 1991;p. A18)…We as Africans need to take a hard look at our relationships with the leadership of the African Americans . . . The African must necessarily become his own advocate…Perhaps a solution to this problem is to let black Africans speak for themselves and for black Americans to do the listening. If black Americans wish to help Africa today, they should side or work with the African PEOPLE, not the corrupt and tyrannical leaders. This is where the distinction between leaders and the PEOPLE is important (http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub161.htm).”

Have we let the Africans down? Have we spoken up for them? A native Ghanaian who was part of a government ministry was in Chicago on business several years ago. He was a high member of the Asante (Ashanti) tribe. I had a conversation with him and an Asantefuohene (Chief). He told me of his frustration of many African Americans talking about their love for the “Motherland” and their love for African people and seeing no tangible evidence of it all. He told me: “The time for talk is over.”

How much love do we have for our people? When will Black folks speak up?

I call to the witness stand Rev. Al Sharpton : “’I am outraged that more of us, particularly of the African American leadership, have not talked about the slave trade that I witnessed with my own eyes in the Sudan,’ Sharpton told CNSNews.com. Sharpton traveled to the Sudan on a fact-finding mission in the spring of 2001. The Sudanese government denies the slavery allegations despite eyewitness accounts by Sharpton and others, as well as documented evidence (http://www.crosswalk.com/1202707/)."

(“Brother, you’re just talking just a little bit too much. You are airing out our dirty laundry. You know you ain’t supposed to do that!”)

Oh, my cup runneth over. Dirty laundry usually “stanks,” and I’m putting it all in the wash here and now and hanging it up to dry.

I got more to say.

I call to the witness stand Louis Chude-Sokei, an associate professor of literature at the University of California Santa Cruz: “It's now not uncommon to hear African American scholars and students complaining about the increasing presence of Caribbean and African blacks in black studies departments.” I beg your pardon…I mean, say whaaaat! African Americans are complaining about more African Blacks in black studies departments??? Who knows more about African history than Africans? They have something to contribute to those colleges and universities. Why are these Black Americans rejecting their “brothers and sisters from the Motherland” in Black Studies Departments at universities and colleges of all places (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-chude-sokei18feb18,0,7672643.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions?)?

Black Africans are being treated badly here by Black Americans. An article entitled “African immigrants face bias from blacks” says: “But Mr. Doerue, 44, said that for the last year he's been continually harassed, his children have been bullied by neighborhood thugs, his car damaged and the windows on his home have been repeatedly broken. Mr. Doerue has called police because he feels "hunted" by the perpetrators, who he claims are mostly black youths…. Mr. Doerue says his children were picked on and targeted simply because they speak differently…. Some of the 30 to 40 Somalian families in town have faced other hostilities from black Americans. Their dress, mannerisms and accents mean they stand out as foreigners in many neighborhoods, said Joshua Kivuva, a University of Pittsburgh teacher and Kenyan native who helps ease the families into life here (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06044/654613.stm).

Can you believe this? “Kwame Raoul, a Haitian American who now fills (Barack) Obama's former seat in the state Senate, said he too has encountered skepticism from black voters for his ethnic background and for his name (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012402032_pf.html).

I call as my next witness Majorie Valbrun: “As a black immigrant and a Haitian-American who has lived in the country for 37 years, I know how it feels to have my blackness challenged by native-born blacks…. Many of my black immigrant friends have also had their blackness questioned by native-born blacks who see us as ‘not really black.’ My ancestors probably weren't enslaved on American soil, but they were enslaved on Haitian soil. So how am I less black or less worthy of kinship with black Americans? How ridiculous that someone would think me unable to understand the pain of racism and the long-term costs of white supremacy and slavery (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501270.html).” When I was in grammar school, a classmate was from Haiti and her skin complexion was much darker than mine. Yet she was not “Black”? Have you all lost your minds?

I call as my last witness Willis Shalita who was born in Uganda and is a naturalized U.S. citizen: “I, too, have been told that I am not a true black American. But who sets the bar? Who defines what it means to be a black American? (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/03/01/EDGRJN7A981.DTL).” Yes, who is the “Keeper of the Blackness”? Where can I get my “Official Blackness” certificate? Who is the "Black Enough Committee"

Some Africans are questioning our loyalty and support for them. Can you blame them? Is it that we love the notion and the idea of “Motherland Africa” and not African people themselves???

So how much love do we really have for our people?

(“Brother, you can’t ask that!”)

Well how many marches and protests have you seen or been to concerning Sudan, or even Rwanda for that matter. Ask your family. Ask your friends. There have been a few but not many as we had for South Africa. Over 800,000 Black Africans were brutally murdered in Rwanda. Do a Google search on that (“genocide” “Rwanda”). How many tears did we shed for them? Didn’t we shed floods of tears for Black South Africans in apartheid who were segregated and made second-class citizens? It made us wanna holler, big time. However, they were not slaughtered on a wholesale basis.

Here is an experiment. Try it out on your friends, family, co-workers, fellow church members, etc.We have a newspaper headline in a Black newspaper:

“WHITE NATIONALISTS SLAUGHTER
800,000 BLACK NATIVE AFRICANS”

Now we have another headline:

“BLACK NATIONALISTS SLAUGHTER
800,000 BLACK NATIVE AFRICANS”

Which one of these headlines bothers you more? If you said “the White one,” I suggest that you check yourself, even pray for some inner healing. I posed that question to an African American woman. She said the “White” headline bothered her more. She also quickly acknowledged there was something wrong with her thinking about that. I asked another African American woman the same question. She said both headlines bothered her. That was the right answer. A machete in White hand or a Black hand is a color-blind machete. A machine gun in a White hand or a Black hand is a color-blind machine gun. Do you think that the Blacks in Sudan or Rwanda said, “Man, we are very happy that Black folks are slaughtering us by the thousands and not White folks doing it. If White folks were killing my family, friends, and me, that would be a real tragedy and I would be mad.” What did the survivors of Rwanda, Sudan, etc. think about the collective silence of Black Americans, those who called them “our African brothers and sisters”?

And it was black Hutus who slaughted black 800,000 Tutis in Rwanda.

Who spoke up?

I have already made a public challenge to the Reparations Movement. (The Chicago Defender newspaper already published my own plan for reparations, but that is beside the point.).I’m challenging the rest of Black America as well. I’m asking the members of the Movement to suspend their current mission for a time and to unite to focus on trying to stop the bloodshed and possible genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Then when the bloodshed is finally over, they can go back to their work. Is not the life of one Black African worth more than any amount of reparations money? Many in the Reparations Movement claim to have love for African people. I ask, “Do you really?” I ask, “How much love do you have for your people?” Well, this is the perfect opportunity to put that love into action and save hundreds or thousands of Black African lives. I challenged the Reparations Movement to use the same energy we used to protest and fight South African apartheid. You know what I'm talking about. Now we are directing our energies to the government of Sudan.

Do we care more about dead African ancestors than we care about live Africans who we claim as “our brothers and sisters” who are being murdered at this moment? At this rate, we will have many more dead Africans to care about.

Read the next sentence very carefully then read it again. I really believe we have a secret belief that Blacks have the right to oppress and to kill other Blacks, but Whites do not have that right.

I even wonder if we hated White Europeans more than we loved Black South Africans during apartheid, the hatred of the White South Africans being the fuel to our actions and not the love for Black South Africans. Because when apartheid ended, we quickly forgot about them, did we not?

(“Ouch, brother! That hurts!”)

How much love do we have for our people?

Read again what the brother above said: “…black progressives did not lift a finger to protest or press our government or the UN to act to prevent the slaughter amongst black Africans the same way they did apartheid, Haiti, or even the plight of the Palestinians. Why not? Well for one, because there was no white victimizer oppressing people of color, both parties were of the same race.” And what the other brother said: “They are disillusioned by Black leaders with African names, who live in houses filled with African statues, and walk the streets in full African regalia but will not raise one voice against slavery…. Are Black Americans playing at being Africans and in reality have no real love or attachment to Africa and African people? Could it be that African-Americans are in love with a fantasy Africa and do not possess any real understanding of African realities and world views?”

If the glove does fit, you cannot acquit. I rest my case.

(“Wait brother! Now let me ask you. How much love do you have for your people?”)

This article is evidence of that. I’m a writer. I am telling the truth so that African Americans can truly be accepting of other Blacks from other nations. I would also like to see some true love, not the “African infatuation” I have observed for years and years. I’m not in the business of hoodwinking, bamboozling, or tickling ears. I write what needs to be written. And I’m sure you appreciate the truth, right? If this article rubs you the wrong way, repent and turn the other way. Then everything will feel good.

Go to www.savedarfur.org and http://www.iabolish.org/ for more information. We have to do something now, not later. Black folks need to wake up and speak up.This is your wake-up call.

What does your common sense tell you? The time for talk is over, isn’t it?