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The bold print could easily be noticed from a distance. It advertised the deceased’s estate property for sale pursuant by order of the court. The major items were the human beings considered chattel or beasts of burden. "Negroes for Sale," the notice announced. The word "sale" was printed in large, capital lettering, making it stand clear from all other words. At the bottom of the flyer, the word "Negroes," appeared also in all capital letters to confirm the object of the sale.
At the auction, a White man appeared at a table surrounded by two others. A Black woman, baby held tightly to her breast, stood next to a man with a gavel in one hand and a book next to the other. The book was opened to show entry marks. Each and every sale was carefully recorded. Thirty slaves were sold that day at an auction block in St. Louis where a crowd of buyers and spectators participated. Days later, civil war erupted.
The age of emancipation was supposed to mark a new beginning for Blacks in America. As the world looked toward the West for freedom and prosperity, liberty and justice, Blacks began to hope for their share. Black families were chased off their property by gun toting, white-hooded, Christian knights who erected and burned a cross to symbolize their superiority and power. Many Blacks fled north, desperate for freedom. Some just ran in circles until they were eventually tracked down, caught and hung from a rope on the side of tree. Denied political rights, kept from adequate education, deprived of real economic opportunities, those who stayed behind continued to pray for freedom like fish in a desert pond.
William Bennett’s comments, Hurricane Katrina, and the recent beating of a 64 year-old Black man in Louisiana are the tip of a giant iceberg that extends back 300 years. Kanye West is not the only Black in America to think what he said on national television, "George Bush doesn’t care about Black people." As governor of Texas, President George Bush signed execution warrants for more Blacks than any governor in United States history. It is not only Bush who doesn’t care, but the entire American system.
It should come as no surprise that Mr. Bennett had helped construct policies under Reagan and Bush, Sr. that have led to the near genocide of an entire generation of Blacks. This generation were children of the movement; "a link between slavery and freedom". The programs had politically-correct slogans, "Just Say No" and "Weed and Seed".
By now the entire world knows that Blacks are 12% of the U.S. population and are nearly half of America’s prisoners. Blacks are 42% of those sentenced to death. This of course, would render moot the question of abortion. The destructive arm of American "just-us" would deliver a mighty blow to the Black family destroying a community with extreme prejudice. The proof of success would be realized in public support--an easy task when fighting "criminals." | | More money for police to serve and protect, tax incentives for White-owned corporations that establish businesses and create jobs in poor Black neighborhoods, a promise of better housing for the poor and community revitalization with special low interest loans. All of the ingredients needed to take back control of the Black community. So enter the Karl Rove wonder boy strategists with their conservative media allies to assist in the marketing of a carefully plotted conspiracy.
The plan would call for the establishment of a trap, orbiting basic human needs. Prisons were planned for construction. Mandatory probation was created. Drugs dealers were made. U.S. prisons, equivalent to abortion clinics, could effectively kill off the Black population with public support and enslave those who survive.
The Black family now must cope with high unemployment, infectious diseases, and devastating behavioral disorders ensuring that any ex-prisoner will return to his anti-societal environment. Who can deny that American prisons were modeled for the destruction, or enslavement of the Black race?
Jeffrey Kay had reported on twelve people imprisoned in Tulia, Texas. Vanita Gupta of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund had coordinated the legal defense that resulted in their releases. Freddy Brookins, Jr. was one of those imprisoned. There were a total of 38 Blacks convicted with sentences ranging up to 99 years. Brookins received 20 years. Mr. Gupta explained, "What happened in these cases was there was a presumption of guilt based on the color of skin of these defendants."
However, Brookins put it this way: "I would say ethnic cleansing. It wasn't about drugs."
Kay questioned, "Ethnic cleansing?"
Brookins confirmed by repeating, "Exactly. They're getting rid of a group of people: Blacks."
Drugs, abortion, slavery, prisons, and the death penalty have one common thread--the U.S. government. Isn’t about time that the Black community launches its own investigation into a possible conspiracy amounting to genocide? Maybe this is why Congress has repeatedly and consistently rejected H.B. 40, introduced Jan. 6, 1999. This bill demands Congress "... 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, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes." Maybe this study would lead to a truth in bold print that would embarrass America around the world. |
