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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.
According to the American Bar Association: “Critical Race Theory recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past. Instead, it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.”
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How many lives could have been saved in this country from the scourge of Covid were it not for the ignorance … the stupidity … and the political greed of a racist sitting United States president named trump?
How many lives could still be saved in this country from the scourge of Covid were it not for the ongoing ignorance … the documented stupidity … and the disgusting political greed of a loser racist former United States president named trump?
 The Tennessean reported last month that parents in Williamson County, Tennessee have been criticizing the "Wit & Wisdom" curriculum for allegedly not being appropriate for young kids and teaching critical race theory concepts. Community members and advocacy groups, the report describes, have objected to the inclusion of books like "Ruby Bridges Goes to School" written by Ruby Bridges, who became the first Black child to integrate a segregated New Orleans school when she was six.
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UNLESS WE TELL IT AND CALL OUT WHITE AMERICAN RACISM, WE WILL CONTINUE TO GET WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GETTING... NOTHING.
I have been talking about Racism since my 8th grade American History school teacher and my mentor Rutledge Henry Pearson, in addition to teaching us an INCLUSIVE American History which included contributions by Blacks instead of the Incomplete, Dishonest, and Racist American History, invited me and my classmates to join the Youth Council NAACP. He would tell us in the classroom…”If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.” Mr. Pearson was the Youth Council adviser. I was 11 years old.
Mr. Pearson started me on two roads…fighting Racism and Understanding the Great Legacy of Black History. He wanted to make sure that we were armed with the tools to fight a country that did not want US HERE---even though they kidnapped us from OUR country to bring US HERE. A means to an obscenely wealthy end in the Christian American Racist Institution called Slavery.
He wanted us to understand that from Slavery, America did not GIVE US anything…WE rightfully EARNED the citizenship that America did not want to give us. And he wanted US to be proud of who we were and to know and appreciate the great legacy of those Black males and females who blazed paths of accomplishments, through the Jungle of Racism. He taught us and taught us well. And for that, I am eternally grateful.
That was 66 years ago. What is remarkable in the battle against Racism over the years is that very little has changed. We see what is happening in the streets by police and the deafening silence by larger White America. WE see the racist intent to keep Black from voting. The problem is White America does not fundamentally respect Black America. We are still PROPERTY.
Oh…White America will tolerate us…on the football field…on the basketball court…on other athletic fields...on the performing stage…on the TV screen…on the movie screen…but sincere respect, not so much. Their crusade to keep us from voting says it all.
We have made some “strides”---I do not call it progress—I will leave it to others to call it progress. Some even think Blacks have arrived. I don't. But those who do feel because we can go where we want to go, for the most part, drive what we want to drive, be with who we want to be with, sleep with who we want to sleep with, and all in this societal phenomenon called Integration. They take those "crumbs" as having "arrived." I still don't.
White America does not respect our history...they do not respect our struggle…they do not respect how much Black America has achieved in spite of, and why you ask? Because the lack of respect and the stumbling blocks for Black America have been carefully placed there by White America. The lack of respect by White police…militia patrols in the Black community is obvious, but that disrespect extends to White elected officials, White Christians, White Educators, White judges, White prosecutors...you get my drift...and are part and parcel of the larger vista of how White America sees and deals with Blacks in America.
It does not mean that Blacks are so readily accepted; it simply means that White America has a higher level of toleration for Black folks…NOT RESPECT… TOLERATION. In part because it is politically, economically, and socially expedient to do so and because it makes good financial sense to the White Big Boys. The Black community generates billions of dollars every year and the White Big Boys are always standing ready to reap this financial windfall. It does not mean you are highly respected; it just means you are a means to an end…and that end is lining their pockets with your money.
Unless and until White America understands and RESPECTS US, we will continue to see Blacks killed by police for reasons that do not approach the need for an arrest, let alone deadly force. And now they have created THEIR racist Bogeyman called Critical Racist Theory, which many Whites cannot describe or define. But it is fear ---of what?---which inflames the racist core racist attitudes in White America.
We will continue to see White elected officials CONTINUALLY disrespect Black voters because they are Black.
We will continue to see distasteful caricatures of Blacks in roles on TV and in the movies because it pleases Whites to laugh at us while we are ignorantly laughing at ourselves. DISRESPECT.
Until Respect is at hand for Black America, we will continue to see these scenarios played out in the streets and on FOX and CNN and NBC and CBS and ABC and MSNBC etc etc etc and those racist local newscasts by insignificant Black and White minions called local news reporters but doing the bidding of White news and TV administrators who only see ratings and profit for their stakeholders.
We need to learn to withhold our money from Racist White America…Withhold our votes from Racist White elected officials… Don't watch the racist TV shows...Don't pay to see the racist movies...Don’t allow White elected officials with their LIES to rush to our Black pulpits …WE need to tell our preachers we do not want the Liars in our church and if they do not get the message…JUST LEAVE. The most ridiculous thing I hear from Black folks is … “The Black Church should not be political. I come to church to hear the word.”
Clueless Black folks who call themselves Christians, yet they are not prepared to work and sacrifice and fight for who they are and even whose they are and they incredulously hide behind the Christian Cross. They really need Black Bible Study…not just Bible study …but Black Bible Study.
And then America Elects a Loser Racist White President and continues to kneel at his Loser former presidential racist throne. Enough Said. We MUST continue to fight and demonstrate and strategize and vote and figure the different ways to MAKE America Respect us. Every Civil Rights demonstration is an indication that things are not right, and they will never be right until WE can also say “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” and know those words apply to US. It is not easy.
Fighting the War of Racism is not easy and has never been easy. Yet it is a fight and a war for which we must continually declare. As Mr. Pearson would say, "If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem." Forget that...and WE PERISH AS A PEOPLE."
The Struggle Continues!
THESE ARE THE RECENT LYING UNHINGED AND RACIST WORDS OF THE LOSER FORMER RACIST PRESIDENT, donald trump, WHO RACIST WHITE Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christian Evangelicals called "Anointed" ... and his embrace of Racist insurrectionist Capitol rioters, and his "explaining" what did not happened, as opposed to what did happen, as he seeks to rewrite the Jan. 6 invasion and insurrection history during a recent FOX Noise Channel appearance...
"They were peaceful people, these were great people ... the love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it.” Can you say Charlottesville again?
The Struggle Continues!
"They were peaceful people, these were great people ... the love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it.” Can you say Charlottesville again?
The Struggle Continues!
CONGRATULATIONS EDWARD WATERS UNIVERSITY.
Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida’s first historically Black college -- became Edward Waters University on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
“It’s exhilarating,” said EWU president A. Zachary Faison. “This has been a long time coming, and so, we are just excited and ecstatic to have reached this historic milestone in the prestigious history or our institution.”
Notably, EWU will begin offering its first master’s degree program starting during the fall semester. It’s an online MBA program, and applications are being accepted.
Also on Wednesday, EWU announced that its baccalaureate-level accreditation was renewed until 2025.
Quite frankly, the 4th of July has never meant that much to me, personally. Just another holiday. No Celebration of Independence ... just talk and fireworks.
I always remind myself when America gained its Independence from England, there were 1 million plus enslaved persons of African descent, in America. That number grew exponentially. Frederick Douglass', in his famous speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" suggests that positive statements about American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved people of the United States because of their lack of freedom, lack of liberty, and lack of citizenship. Douglass referred not only to the captivity of enslaved people, but to their merciless exploitation and the cruelty and torture to which they were subjected while enslaved.
Some in White America have opined that Blacks should go back to Africa if they are that dissatisfied. To that let me say, I am not going anywhere. My ancestors made great contributions to the development of this country after being kidnapped from Africa, whether American History wants to admit it or not. My ancestors made White America obscenely wealthy, working for free, and in chains. And Like James Baldwin, As an American citizen, I reserve the right to "criticize America perpetually.”
We in Black America have survived the insidiousness of White Privilege, and the evilness of White Christian Racism and its Non-Christian reasoning. We have survived the ongoing disrespect we endure daily because of our Black hue of skin, and the ridiculousness of founding documents ONLY intended for White Americans.
We have survived a racist president and his racist voters, and we have survived White Progressive Christian Do-Gooders, who want to pray donald trump's planted degeneracy and racism away. We have survived a Congress declaring the end of slavery, making Juneteenth an official holiday, but a Congress who has not passed an anti-lynching law, and a Congress who has not apologized for slavery---and a Congress that certainly has not considered REPARATIONS ... and all because of who we are.
We will survive a racist Supreme Court, who even with a colleague, who looks like me, who is my color--BUT NOT MY KIND--disregards my "Lived experiences" as a Black person in a Racist America, and the injurious deadly impact of racism.
We will also survive White America's vicious evil blaming of their Racism on Critical Race Theory, which most in White America cannot define.
So no it is not Independence Day for me and those who look like me...AND AGAIN, WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
Then, as now, for US, The Struggle Continues!
I always remind myself when America gained its Independence from England, there were 1 million plus enslaved persons of African descent, in America. That number grew exponentially. Frederick Douglass', in his famous speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" suggests that positive statements about American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved people of the United States because of their lack of freedom, lack of liberty, and lack of citizenship. Douglass referred not only to the captivity of enslaved people, but to their merciless exploitation and the cruelty and torture to which they were subjected while enslaved.
Some in White America have opined that Blacks should go back to Africa if they are that dissatisfied. To that let me say, I am not going anywhere. My ancestors made great contributions to the development of this country after being kidnapped from Africa, whether American History wants to admit it or not. My ancestors made White America obscenely wealthy, working for free, and in chains. And Like James Baldwin, As an American citizen, I reserve the right to "criticize America perpetually.”
We in Black America have survived the insidiousness of White Privilege, and the evilness of White Christian Racism and its Non-Christian reasoning. We have survived the ongoing disrespect we endure daily because of our Black hue of skin, and the ridiculousness of founding documents ONLY intended for White Americans.
We have survived a racist president and his racist voters, and we have survived White Progressive Christian Do-Gooders, who want to pray donald trump's planted degeneracy and racism away. We have survived a Congress declaring the end of slavery, making Juneteenth an official holiday, but a Congress who has not passed an anti-lynching law, and a Congress who has not apologized for slavery---and a Congress that certainly has not considered REPARATIONS ... and all because of who we are.
We will survive a racist Supreme Court, who even with a colleague, who looks like me, who is my color--BUT NOT MY KIND--disregards my "Lived experiences" as a Black person in a Racist America, and the injurious deadly impact of racism.
We will also survive White America's vicious evil blaming of their Racism on Critical Race Theory, which most in White America cannot define.
So no it is not Independence Day for me and those who look like me...AND AGAIN, WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
Then, as now, for US, The Struggle Continues!
IN ADDITION TO JANUARY 6, 2021 BEING AN INSURRECTION, it was ALSO an attack on America and American Democracy by Domestic Terrorists. The question is, why won't the White press call it the DOMESTIC TERRORISM it was? Is it Republicants recognize it as Domestic Terrorism and are doing their best to undercut its real label?
ALL of the January 6, 2021 Domestic Terrorists who tried to VIOLENTLY dismantle American Democracy were White. So to the White press, does the fact these Violent Domestic Terrorists were ALL White somehow makes them less Domestic Terrorists and make their violence less Domestic Terrorism?
No one White wants to really say out loud, the prime movers of ALL instances of Domestic Terrorism in the history of America were White males. If Black Males were the prime movers, there would not be enough jails to hold them. There would be no question as to their arrests and the charges against them. Everyone knows the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI would find them ALL.
But Alas...they were all White, and that White Privilege thang comes into play. And the instigator of this Domestic Terrorism? One Loser Former president named trump. Maybe this is Critical Race Theory? No emotion...no fabrication...no hyperbole...JUST PLAIN FACTS.
ALL of the January 6, 2021 Domestic Terrorists who tried to VIOLENTLY dismantle American Democracy were White. So to the White press, does the fact these Violent Domestic Terrorists were ALL White somehow makes them less Domestic Terrorists and make their violence less Domestic Terrorism?
No one White wants to really say out loud, the prime movers of ALL instances of Domestic Terrorism in the history of America were White males. If Black Males were the prime movers, there would not be enough jails to hold them. There would be no question as to their arrests and the charges against them. Everyone knows the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI would find them ALL.
But Alas...they were all White, and that White Privilege thang comes into play. And the instigator of this Domestic Terrorism? One Loser Former president named trump. Maybe this is Critical Race Theory? No emotion...no fabrication...no hyperbole...JUST PLAIN FACTS.
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