America’s Dirty
Secret Has Finally Come Front & Center Of Our Daily Lives & It Was
Triggered By The Senseless Death Of George Floyd A Black Man On The Ground In
Handcuffs, Not Resisting Arrest, Insisting He COULD NOT Breathe As A Police Officers Knee Was On His Neck.
The World Watched
This Play Out Live For Almost 9
Minutes (8 Minutes & 46 Seconds To
Be Exact) Until He Slipped Away Into Unconsciousness & Then
Subsequently Died When He Was Finally Taken Away & Pronounced Dead.
This Happened In Minneapolis, Minnesota The Home Of The
Icon Prince. The Roar Of Rage As Could Be Anticipated Was Immediate From The
Black Citizens In The City. Protesters Hit The Streets To Demand Accountability
& When They Felt No Charges Were Being Brought Against The 4 Officers (since 3 stood idly by) As The 4th Knelt
On George Floyd’s Neck, The City Was Lit On Fire Burning Areas To The Ground,
Burning A Police Station, & Stores Were Ransacked.
As Has Happened Time
& Time Again Over These Short 59
Years O’ My Life We March To Voice Our Displeasure As Well As Demand The Civil
Rights Which We Are Due!!! But This Tyme Something Different & Amazing Is
Happening. THE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!
When Events Like
This Unfold In Predominately Black Neighborhoods It Is “US” The Blacks Who Hit The Streets To
Demand Justice. This Time White America Also Rallied Rapidly To The Cause As
The Ripple FX Multiplied. From Minnesota Protest Jumped To L.A., Atlanta,
Chicago, New York, & Many Major & Minor Cities In Between. My Immediate
Reaction Was “Oh Boy Here We Go Again?!?”
But Then A Lil’ Sumthin’ Sumthin’ Happened As The
World Reacted!!! Protest Began In London, In Australia, In New Zealand, In
China, With All Of Them Chanting George Floyd’s Name & Black Lives
Matter!!! I Had To Sit Down & Take A Deep Breath As This Was Incredibly
Moving!!! One By One Countries Around The Globe Climbed Onboard To Add Their
Voice To This Human Rights Out Cry!!!
& Now For The
1st Tyme In A Long Tyme America Is Undressed In Front Of The Entire World. The
Emperor Has No New Clothes & Has Been Naked All This Time…, Yet Unlike The
Little Boy Who Told Him So…, Nobody Over These Last 400 Years Truly Wanted To See/Hear/Speak The Truth Until Now When
The Uglynezz Of Systemic Oppression Against Her Black Citizens Has Been
Undeniably Broadcast www global!!!
Those Who Disagree
& Want To Keep The Status Quo See The Protesting…, The Rioting & They
Condemn Black People For Exercising Their Rights To Voice Their Disapproval Of
Their Conditions. They Condemn Us For Being Un-American & Not Adhering To
The Due Process Of The System As Though We Are Doing Something Un-Patriotic
& In Fact Contrary To Our American Values.
Well Let Me Remind
You Of Several Things. The Boston Tea Party Was A STRAIGHT OUT REVOLT Against “Taxation Without Representation.” Those
Mofo’s In Boston Lost Their Damn Mind Over Some Daggone Tea!!! The
Revolutionary War Was America’s Fight Against Great Britain For Independence
Under What They Considered Immense Oppression; & The Civil War Ripped A
Country In Half As It Fought Against Itself To Preserve The Institution Of Slavery
In The South Against It’s More Liberal & Progressive Neighbors In The
North.
So You Can Keep The
Bullshit To Yourself About Protesting Being Un-American!!! To Protest Is THE AMERICAN WAY!!! We Fought & Died
For The Right To Voice Our Displeasure & Right Now In Black America There
Is A Revolution Going On To Address Our Basic Human Civil Rights In This
Country That Continue To Be Eradicated Black Body By Black Body By BLACK BODY!!!
The Sad Part Is We
Had A Chance To Get This Right So Many Years Ago. Slavery Landed In America
Long Before America Became America. So Those Folks Were Partially Absolved Of
Trying To Make Change As This Truly Had To Be Like The Wild, Wild West. However
When It Came Time For America To Break Free From Great Britain & Become Its
Own Independent Country, The Declaration Of Independence Was Drafted &
Could’ve Solved Slavery Right Then & There As The Words Were Perfectly
Formed For This Nation To Start New, To Start Fresh, With Equal Opportunities
For All. Read It For Yourself From The Pens Of Your Forefathers!!!
The Declaration Of Independence July 4, 1776 States:
“When In The Course Of Human Events, It Becomes
Necessary For One People To Dissolve The Political Bands Which Have Connected
Them With Another, & To Assume Among The Powers Of The Earth, The Separate
& Equal Stations To Which The Laws Of Nature & Of Nature’s God Entitle
Them, A Decent Respect To The Opinions Of Mankind Requires That They Should
Declare The Causes Which Impel Them To The Separation.”
“We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, That All
Men Are Created Equal, That They Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain
Unalienable Rights, That Among These Are Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit Of
Happiness – That To Secure These Rights, Governments Are Instituted Among Men,
Deriving Their Just Powers From The Consent Of The Governed, That Whenever Any
Form Of Government Becomes Destructive Of These Ends, It Is The Right Of The
People To Alter Or To Abolish It, & To Institute New Government, Laying Its
Foundation On Such Principles, & Organizing Its Powers In Such Form, As To
Them Shall Seem Most Likely To Effect Their Safety & Happiness.”
“Prudence, Indeed, Will Dictate That Governments Long
Established Should Not Be Changed For Light & Transient Cause; &
Accordingly All Experience Hath Shewn, That Mankind Are More Disposed To
Suffer, While Evils Are Sufferable, Than To Right Themselves By Abolishing The
Forms To Which They Are Accustomed. But When A Long Train Of Abuses &
Usurpations, Pursuing Invariably The Same Object, Evinces A Design To Reduce
Them under Absolute Despotism, It Is Their Right, It Is Their Duty, To Throw
Off Such Government, & To Provide New Guards For Their Future Security.”
“Such Has Been The Patient Sufferance Of These
Colonies; & Such Is Now The Necessity Which Constrains Them To Alter Their
Former System Of Government. The History Of The Present Kind Of Great-Britain
Is A History Of Repeated Injustices & Usurpations, All Having In Direct
Object The Establishment Of An Absolute Tyranny Over These States. To Prove
This, Let Facts Be Submitted To A Candid World.”
If You Read These
Words & Substitute “Black America”
For The Colonies You Could Be Talking About What Has Been Happening To Us Over
These Last 400 Years. The Blueprint
For What Needs To Happen Going Forward Is Contained Therein As It Was For The
Colonies In Their Un-Happiness With The Heavy Handed Rule Great Britain
Exercised On Them.
They Bristled Under
These Conditions & Ultimately Rebelled Into The Revolutionary War. They DID NOT Go Into This Blindly…,
They Spelled Out Their Demands & When The King WOULD NOT Meet Them; They Had
No Recourse Except To Declare War & Fight For Their Very Freedom &
Independence They Desired.
Are We Blacks Here
In America Today Any Different??? I
Would Argue ABSOLUTELY NOT& Quite Frankly
We Are At War With The Systemic Oppression That Birthed Slavery, Jim Crow, The Klu Klux Clan, Separate But Equal, & White
Supremacy. America Knew She Was
Wrong & The Bill Came Due On Abraham Lincoln’s Desk When He Signed “The
Emancipation Proclamation” September
22, 1862.
People Think This
Document Freed All The Slaves…, But It Really Was A Call For The Rebellious
States To Rejoin The Union. In Addition To That Ask…, It Was An Order To Free
Slaves In 10 Confederate States. In Part It Read:
“…All Persons Held As Slaves Within Any State Or
Designated Part Of A State, The People Whereof Shall Then Be In Rebellion
Against The United States, Shall Be Then, Thenceforward, & Forever Free;
& The Executive Government Of The United States, Including The Military
& Naval Authority Thereof, Will Recognize & Maintain The Freedom Of
Such Persons, & Will Do Not Act To Repress Such Persons. (Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Virginia, & Louisiana.)
This Was A Leader
Who Knew His Nation Was Torn Apart & He Tried To Deliver A Compromise To
Help Usher In A New ERA For Black America. Unfortunately Even Though The
Northern Union Army Won…, The Resource Rich, Economically Wealthy, & Still
Slave Dominant Confederate South WAS NOT Having It & Immediately Implemented Tactics To
Undermine Any True Chance Of This Doctrine Succeeding.
America Has Always
Known It’s Had An Equality Problem For All Of Her Citizens & It Rang True
Even In Her Own Cities As Slavery Was An Ill That Anyone With Eyes Wide Open
& A Pure Heart Could See From The North To The South Of This Young Nation.
Take The Historic City Of Philadelphia & The Liberty Bell.
Though It Is Iconic Today, The Liberty Bell Was A Lot
Less Famous In The 1700’s, When It
Was Just A Big Fancy Bell In The Pennsylvania State House In Philadelphia.
Later, The State House Became Independence Hall, & The Bell’s Home Turf
Became Famous As The Place Where Both The “Declaration
Of Independence” Was Drafted
& “The United States Constitution”
Was Debated & Adopted.
The Bell Itself Still Wasn’t Famous, & It Remained
Relatively Obscure Until Abolitionist Groups In The 1800’s Began Using It As A Symbol Of The Movement To End Slavery. They Gave
The Bell Its Current Name, The Liberty Bell, In The 1830’s. In The Nearly 2
Centuries Since Then, The Bell Has Been Used For Various Other Movements As
Well, Including Women’s Suffrage & Civil Rights.
Source: Independence National Historic Park
– Date Updated June 3, 2020
The Early
Abolitionist Found A Symbol To Rally Around As They Worked Towards Freeing The
Slaves Who WERE NOT Afforded The
Opportunities To Build A Life On Equal Footing Compared To Their White
Counterparts.
If You Think These
Injustices WERE NOT LQQKED At From A World View…, LQQK No Further Than The Tiny Nation Of
France. One Of The True Benefactors Of Early America As They Gave Us The Might
To Set Forth The Revolutionary War In Our Fight Against Great Britain For
Freedom. You Could Say That Was France’s Greatest Gift To America…, But A-Ha…, There Is But Another!!!
Lady Liberty Is So Synonymous With Immigration That The
Emma Lazarus Poem It Bears On A Plaque – Urging Foreign Lands To Send Their
Tired, Poor, & “Huddled Masses Yearning To
Breathe Free” – Is Almost As
Well Known As The Statue Itself.
Between 1892
& 1954, More Than 12 Million Immigrants Were Welcomed By The 150 Foot
Tall Copper Statue On Their Way To Ellis Island. However, When The Idea For A
Monument Was 1st Conceived In The 1860’s,
It Was For A Different Reason.
After The Civil War Ended, A French Abolitionist Named
E`douard de Laboulaye Proposed Gifting The United States With Something To
Commemorate The End Of Slavery. He Convened A Meeting Of Like Minded French
Citizens To Raise Funds For A Statue, & Commissioned Sculptor
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi To Design It.
According To The Washington Post, Bartholdi Initially
Considered Having Lady Liberty Hold Broken Chains In Her Left Hand, To
Symbolize The Emancipation Of Slaves. In The Final Design, However, These
Chains Were Replaced With A Tablet. Broken Shackles Are Still Part Of The
Statue, But They’re Difficult To See From Most Angles Because Of Their
Placement Near Lady Liberty’s Feet.
Source: Washington Post Date Updated - June
3, 2020
So Even Today, As
The World Watches The Treatment Of America’s Black Citizens From Afar…, They’ve
Always LQQKED Over The Border To
See Exactly How We Are Doing!!! Those Chains Under Lady Liberty’s Feet Are So
Symbolic Of The Struggle Of Black People In America As Although We’ve Broken A
Few Links Here & There…, The Oppression Continues As We’re Still Being
Crushed Under Feet Or Kneeled Upon If You Will…
The Bill Of Rights September 25, 1789 States:
Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither Slavery Nor
Involuntary Servitude, Except As A Punishment For Crime Whereof The Party Shall
Have Been Duly Convicted, Shall Exist Within The United States, Or Any Place
Subject To Their Jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress Shall Have Power To Enforce This Article By Appropriate
Legislation.
When Slavery Ended
This Bill Was Put On The Books Officially In 1865
& That Should’ve Solved America’s Slave Problem For Good. But How Could
It??? You Took Roughly 4 Million
People Who Were Subservient To The Dominant Culture Who Had No Land, No Homes, No Means Of Economic Support,
No System To Help Integrate Them Into Their New World & Set Them Free To
Fend For Self.
It’s Like We Say
About Diversity & Inclusion. Diversity Is Being Asked To The Party…, But
Inclusion Is Being Asked To Dance 1nce You Get There. Well We Were Begrudgingly
Asked To The Party…, But NOBODY Wanted To Dance With Us!!!
When You Are
Dependent Upon The Dominant Culture For Every Fabric Of Your Survival…, How Can
You Ever Truly Be Free??? Is This Not But Slavery Of A Different Name???
Yet In Spite Of This
Black America Began To Survive…, Then Began To Thrive!!! Upon Watching Success
By The Least Of…, With Limited Resources…, White Supremacy Sprung Forth &
Destroyed Major Black Strong Holds As They Did Tulsa, Oklahoma. Black Wall
Street Is Not A Myth…, IT WAS FOR REAL!!!
We Left Hardcore Slavery, Lynching, Rapes, Murder, &
Inhumane Treatment Across All Socio-Economic-Philosophical Levels Of The
Deep South Only To Be Greeted By More Of The Same Disguised As The New World
Order. How In The World Could Black America Every Survive These Terroristic
Threats Against Our Very Existence???
Somehow We Did &
Even In The Face Of The Civil Rights Minded 1960’s As Blacks Rallied Together Standing Up For Their Rights In
The Face Of INCREDIBLE Sanctioned
Brutality. Go Watch Any Of The Clips From The Diner Sit-Ins, The Dog/Police
Attacks, School Integrations, The March On Selma & Ask Yourself What Group
Of People Would Do This To Another Group Of People Considered Your Own Country
Men & Women???
America’s Dirty Lil’
Secret Is Again On Display For All The World To See!!! It Is With Great Pain & Sadness In My
Heart That I Write These Words!!! All We’ve Ever Wanted Was To Be Treated
Fairly & Equally As The Constitution Says We Should Be..., Yet Here We Are 400 Years Later Still Fighting For Those Same
Basic Human Rights!!!
As A Black Man On
The Cusp Of 60…, The Civil Rights
Movement Was In My Lifetime!!! Malcolm X & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Died
On My Watch!!! I’ve Been Alive For Every
One Of These Brutal Video Injustices Of Black People By Police & Citizens
Alike Whether It Ended In Death Or Violations Of Our Rights!!!
Enough Is Enough!!! Black America Is Mad!!! White America Is Mad!!! The World Is Mad!!! We Are At An Incredible Crossroad Where The
Iron Is Hot & The Time Is Now To Strike. We Need To Dismantle A System Of Oppression
That Has Never Had Our Best Interest At Heart.
We Must Weed Out
Racist, Corrupt Behavior, & Instill New Equal & Just Policies That Has EVERYBODY’S…, But XSPECIALLY BLACK AMERICAN’S Rights On
Full Display!!! The Day Of Reckoning Is
Upon Us & The Time To Act Is Now!!! What
Side Of The Sword Do You Fall On??? Are
You On The Side Of The Righteous??? Or
Will You Stand Idly By & Allow The Wickedness To Continue???
I Fear For My Life…,
My Family’s Life…, The Lives Of The Brave Black Youth On The Front Lines
Protesting…, & The Messengers Who Speak Truth Upon Death Ears As They Wrap
Those Truth Words Into Convenient Excuses To Do Nothing Or Twist The Words Into
Making The Accusers The Aggressors!!! We’ve
NEVER Been The Aggressor…, You’ve Held All
The Power For 400 Hundred Years!!!
We Need You To LQQK Deep Into The Mirror Of Your Soul To
Examine Your Own Moral Conscious & Realize That Even Though You ARE NOT Slave Owners Today…, You’ve
Benefited From A System Of Systemic Oppression That Has Given You A 99 Yard Head Start In A 100 Yard Dash That Not Even Usain Bolt Or
Carl Lewis Could Recover From.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!
White America We
Need Your Help. Black America CANNOT Do This Alone...,
& For This Country That We All Love & Call Home…, This Could Be Her
Undoing If We DO NOT Get This Thing
Right!!! Barack Obama Was The Hope Of
Something Amazing In This Country That No One Ever Thought Could Be…, Then
Trump Quickly Dimmed That Hope With A Divisive Leadership Style Heavy Handed On
The Haves vs. The Have Nots & You Better Know Your Place On The Scale.
I Love My Country…,
I Love My Country Men…, But I CANNOT Love A System That
In Return Shows Me No Love In Return!!! I Have Always Been A Proud Strong Black
Man & It’s By The Grace Of A Higher Power I Still Stand Here Before You As
I’ve Been In Some Situations I Probably SHOULD NOT Have Survived.
I CANNOT Stand Idly By &
Turn The Other Cheek As Suffering By My People Is At An All Tyme High. A Change Is Gonna Come…, Because If Not Now…,
When??? You Can Be A Part Of The
Solution Or Continue Being A Part Of The Problem.
Unlike Marcus Garvey
I AM NOT Preaching A Return Home To Africa. I Don’t Know Africa As My Home. I May Be An
African-American To Some…, But My Roots Go Back To The East Coast Of North
Carolina!!! That’s Where My Mama, Her
Siblings, & Her Parents Came From!!! So If You Want Me To Go Back Home Somewhere…,
It’s Back To The Tar Heel State Of North Carolina Where My Forefathers Came
From.
Unlike Elijah
Muhammad The Soft-Spoken Yet Fiery Orator Who Led The Nation Of Islam…, By
Taking Black Men From The Depths Of Despair & Molding Them Into Upstanding,
Forthright, Self-Reliant Citizens I AM NOT Preaching
Separationization!!! In Reading His Book “Message
To The Black Man In America” He Goes In Hard On White America (rightfully so) Explaining The Sins &
Transgressions They Put Upon The Black Race Here In America!!!
But Ultimately He
Wanted A Separate Space & State For Black America To Live In Run By &
For Ourselves W/O Your Intervention. As
Interconnected As The World Has Become In The 21st Century Separation Is Not
Feasible As I Think We All Need To Embrace Each Other & Come Together For
The Greater Common Good. Because As Difficult As It Would Be To Figure Out
Reparations For America’s Black Citizens, No State Is Giving Up Prime Real
Estate When It’s Already In Their Hands!!! Frederick Douglass Said “Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never
Did & It Never Will.”
Many Great Nations
In History Past…, Have Collapsed Under The Weight Of Its Own Inequities…, DO NOT Let America Be Next. Since 1776 We’ve Been The Gold Standard Of What
Is Possible When All Citizens Have A Voice & We Are Governed “For The People, By The People, Of The People!!!”
We Must Get Back To Those Ideals Of Being Inclusive Of All Our Citizens To
Truly Make This Nation The Greatest Place It Can Possibly Be!!! Until America
Does Right By Her Black Citizens…, She Can NEVER EVER Truly Be Great!!!
Peace & Blessings The Bro J!!!
