“I’m for Truth, no matter WHO tells it.

I’m for Justice, no matter WHO it’s for or against.

I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such, I’m for WHOEVER and WHATEVER benefits the human race as a whole.”   (Malcolm X) 

SLAVERY

Almost everyone knows that 12.5 million Black African slaves were shipped to the Western Hemisphere between the 1500s and 1800s.

Why does almost NO ONE know that:

• Less than 4% (388,000) of those Black slaves were sold to the U.S.
• During that same time period, 1.5 MILLION White Europeans were kidnapped and sold as slaves TO Africa?

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-shocking-history-of-enslavement-of-1-5-million-white-europeans-in-north-africa-in-the-16th-century1

PAYING REPARATIONS: TO WHOM AND FOR WHAT?

• One of the first slave owners in America (early 1600’s) was a freed Black man from Africa named Anthony Johnson.
• In 1860 New Orleans, 28% of the 3,000 freed Blacks living there owned slaves. Less than 5% of New Orleans Whites, and 1.4% of ALL Whites owned slaves.

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/07/fact-check-the-first-slave-owner-in-america-was-not-a-black-man.html

https://www.theroot.com/did-black-people-own-slaves-1790895436

https://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

John Hope Franklin

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

• This proclamation, signed on July 1, 1863, should have freed all U.S. slaves.
• The slaves in Texas, however, were not informed of this fact until June 19, 1865, and were not freed until almost 2 YEARS later!
• This final freeing of ALL the U.S. slaves is what the national holiday “Juneteenth” commemorates.
• The U.S. was one of the first countries that outlawed slavery in 1865.

The African country of Mauritania was the last country to officially outlaw slavery in 1981, but still has widespread slavery today, along with at least 4 other African countries!

https://talkafricana.com/top-5-african-countries-where-slavery-is-still-widespread/

WHY DO MINISTERS, POLITICIANS, AND GRADUATES PROUDLY WEAR AFRICAN “KENTE CLOTH” ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS?

The colorful, woven cloth originated with the Ashanti African tribe whose most profitable export was capturing Black Africans and selling them to slave traders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kente_cloth

WHY DO APPROXIMATELY 80% OF BLACK VOTERS VOTE DEMOCRAT?

• Democrats, NOT Republicans, started the Civil War.
• Democrats, NOT Republicans, started the Ku Klux Klan.
• More Democrats, NOT Republicans, opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/index.html

“I am a Republican, a Black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”  (Frederick Douglass)

LYNCHINGS: WHY DOES NO ONE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL RACES WERE LYNCHED?

Between 1883 and 1941, mostly in the South, 4,467 people were illegally lynched without trials.

• 3,265 were Black
• 1,083 were White (most of whom were lynched for helping Blacks and/or for being anti-lynching.)
• 71 Mexicans
• 38 American Indians
• 10 Chinese
• 1 Japanese

The largest mass lynching in U.S. history – 11 men in one day –  occurred in New Orleans in 1891.

They were all White Italians.

“I believe that the Final Battle will not be White over Black or Black over White. It will be Good over evil, Truth over error, Light over darkness.” (Anonymous)

THE “Are You Kidding Me?” AWARD

Black rapper Kendrick Lamar sang one of his popular songs, “Not Like Us,” when he performed in the recent Super Bowl Halftime show. The song’s lyrics included the following words:

• “Nigga”:19 times
• “Bitch”: 7 times
• “Fuck”: 4 times
• “Pussy” and “Ho” – 1 time each

https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-lyrics

This excessive vulgarity in Lamar’s lyrics is typical for all of his songs.

Mr. Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.

In speaking about his lyrics, the Pulitzer jury described them as:

• “Virtuosic”
• “Vernacular authenticity”
• “Capturing the complexity of modern African-American life”

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/225

NOT ONE high-profile Black person publicly commented on what a cultural embarrassment Mr. Lamar’s performance was to Black History Month.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

“White boys” and “Niggas(ers)”

Can Blacks and Whites agree to stop using BOTH of these insulting, racist terms?

“White Boy”

A term used to emasculate a White man by implying that other races of men are men, but White men are boys. (Urban Dictionary)

“Nigga(er)”

(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person.” (Wiktionary)

AFRICAN AMERICAN OR JUST “AMERICAN”?

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism … German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, etc. …[or African-Americans] … The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.”  (President Teddy Roosevelt

THE “BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM”

How does promoting a “Black National Anthem” (that was sung at the recent Super Bowl) encourage a strong, united sense of ALL of us being Americans?

https://www.nbcdfw.com/super-bowl/black-national-anthem-super-bowl-2/3765765/

“There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” (President Barack Obama)

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/keynote-address-the-2004-democratic-national-convention

Why Does NO ONE Mention the Low Graduation Rates of HBCU’s?

There are 101 historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), half of which are privately owned. They received $16 Billion dollars from the Biden administration.

Only half of the 101 HBCU’s reported their graduation rates.

The average HBCU 6-year graduation rate is 32%, and less than 20% at some schools.

The average 6-year graduation rate for all traditional colleges and universities is 65%.

Why does no one ever explain:

• Why are the average HBCU graduation rates 50% lower than traditional colleges that DON’T put primary emphasis on race?
• Why do taxpayers continue to fund the HBCU colleges that are failing a majority of their students?

https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-hbcu-colleges/

https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/hbcu-facts/

https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-graduation-rates/

https://thinkingoregon.org/2020/08/18/the-flaw-at-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-dreadful-graduation-rates/ 

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”  (President John Adams)

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