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As African people, we are aware of tha history of resisting genocide and oppression in various parts of tha world, including Native America, Africa, and Australia. These atrocities have been carried out in tha name of false gods and fictitious claims of civilization and progress, rooted in racism, colonialism, and capitalism. We engaged in a righteous struggle to expose and change tha established order. This meant building unity, forming alliances, and resisting oppressive systems, including tha university, until essential concessions and changes were made. Tha Freedom Struggle, by any honest measure, has been a critical formative factor in tha reconception and transformation of American society since our first contact with tha colonialists, enslavers, segregationists, racists, and others of tha world’s rogue gallery of oppressors. And we remain obligated to finish tha unfinished and ongoing fight for freedom, justice, equality, and other human goods. It is our legacy This is our challenge and overwhelming responsibility.” The repair, renewal, and remaking is not tha “saving of the soul of America,” but saving, securing, freeing, and uplifting tha people of America as a moral imperative, a material necessity, and a central political goal.

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Significance of Juneteenth.

While tha ignorance of well-meaning, yet, misguided conservatives might call it a result of ‘wokeism’ or tha ‘Black Lives Matter Movement’, it is not tha case. As stated earlier, Juneteenth has been around for a long time and was celebrated for tha first time way back in 1866. Therefore, people who think of it as a recent invention and an attempt to gain black votes are mistaken. Earlier celebrations of Juneteenth involved church gatherings as blacks were still not allowed to use public spaces. Over tha years, tha date is synonymous with cookouts, parties, food festivals, plays, and historical re-enactments. It is tha first new federal holiday since 1983. Interestingly, tha last time a day was declared a federal holiday also involved an African American. President Ronald Reagan used his powers to declare tha third Monday of January each year as Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Day which celebrates his birthday. 

Despite tha significance of this day to African Americans and others who value racial justice, many have voiced their opposition against it. Arizona was the last state to ratify this momentous occasion…go figure! Not surprisingly while there is no doubt that people of color are discriminated against, we cannot ignore tha positive developments. Recently, President Joe Biden recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Officially, tha holiday is called Juneteenth National Independence Day. Despite tha widespread support for its recognition, 14 Congressmen voted against it, but more on that later. First, we need to understand the significance of this holiday. While I am buoyed by tha new holiday, I’m not jumping for joy or dancing in tha street. Tha Senate passed tha holiday legislation unanimously. While tha Juneteenth holiday is impactful, tha ease with which it got Senate passage ought to give us all pause. It is easier to support a holiday than to support the principle of democracy, which is allegedly at tha foundation of our democracy. It is easier to support a holiday than to abolish tha use of tha chokehold. 

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Color History

Tha ancestors of our “Opps” who first kidnapped us, destroyed our families, treated us like animals, and forced us to work in tha industry of chattel slavery.  much to our detriment. False narratives written by"OPP's" became tha norm, serving as tha predominant, if not sole foundation of our reconstructed history. These stories asserted that we were “less than,” backward, inferior, without education, without governments, without positive family structures, lacking any semblance of religion, architecture, philosophy, theology, or medical prowess, and strangers to both agriculturally and economically based ingenuity. All of this, however, has been nothing more than a carefully constructed lie.

So, while we can rattle off tha names of a few “acceptable” Blacks, and Thurgood, still, we still do not know tha fuller story  Even more, I fear that we have little interest in discovering tha truth a path toward knowledge that will be painful, arduous, and which will require us to give up “histories” with which many of our people seem to have grown “comfortable.”

This is the reality that we continue to swallow hook, line, and sinker. In other words, Black history remains an epic saga whose truth remains untold, unknown,n and therefore impossible to pass down to subsequent generations. Tha story that we know, at least many of us, is no more than a lie, conceived and constructed with ulterior motives, holding an entire race in chains even when tha actual chains have long been removed. And so, we have evolved with a narrative that still defines a once-mighty race, stripped of its lineage beautiful and distinguished by our many “shades of Black” that adorn our skin hues of Black which grow with intensity in tha sunlight bearing colors reminiscent I know that tha story of our history, has huge empty spaces and places that must be filled in so that we can regain tha pride that was once commonplace. I would like to think that we would have shared what we knew with “OPPs” and that tha world would be a better place today a kinder world, a safer world, a cleaner world. But in tha pursuit of dominance and privilege, humanity has taken giant steps backward. And we have suffered.

"It’s Black History Month. Read, listen, reflect, question, surmise, and reach a new and different history then share that truth with others whose only “sin” has been, for hundreds if not thousands of years, that we were a people of a different color"

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America "Shining City Upon A Hill " History

 

 America History contains three parts:. 

1. Part one:.. Appeal to tha Nation to live up to its great founding principles... 

(A lot of Blood was lost trying to do that)

2. Part two:... Appeal to Ameriklans to rise up and act accordingly in tha noble cause of tha pursuit of #liberty and #justice and Not drink “from tha cup of #bitterness.” 

(A lot of long hours of Sweat many had to encounter )

3. Part three:... Appeal to tha ideals of tha Christian soul of this nation 

( So many eyes of tha injustice crying these Tears of unfairness in front of y'all Christian Souls!)

   

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America has been indoctrinated to believe that this country is on a special mission, ordained by God to civilize tha “heathens” and tha “savages” and spread democracy around tha world. There have been other doctrines and worn yarns spun over the years such as Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism, All of them used to justify or rationalize militarism, colonialism, and oppression. King's great speeches, were popularly known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. It is a speech that must be dusted off and studied in new today because it contains tha very message that our nation sorely needs to hear and digest now What history has taught and continues to teach tha rest of tha world; tha victims of America’s “largesse”, is that this “shining city on a hill” is truly a mirage. “American Internationalism” comes at a very high cost to those it is imposed upon. American or “Jeffersonian – democracy” is not about one-person-one-vote, sovereignty, and self-determination. It’s about unbridled capitalism, the insatiable lust for resources, and tha exploitation of foreign labor and markets. King offered up America as tha solution. He discussed the “magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'”A message that has been tragically lost and buried and replaced with great and destructive distortions. Tha heart of that message that day is Appealing to a nation to realize tha dream of its founding fathers. Not to crush it and bury it, as we hear today. The problem is not tha people. Tha most memorable and oft-quoted line of tha “I Have a Dream" Is that four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by tha color of their skin but by the content of their character. What has happened instead? In tha name of racial justice, our race campaigns today are defined by selection and placement based on race, based on the color of skin, and not based on the content of character. He quoted tha prophet Isaiah that “tha crooked places will be made straight … and tha glory of tha Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together Let’s honor This Month by revisiting and taking to heart tha great truths that were spoken on that summer day in Washington, D.C., 1963. Great truths have very sadly been cast to tha side and replaced with the religion of politics and power. Let us see America as he presented it then, as embodying the ideals of a free nation and then we can join hands and sing, the words Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”A message that has been tragically lost and buried and replaced with great and destructive distortions. This indictment of the woke movement is that America's problem. Tha problem was tha failure of tha nation to live up to tha challenges of its great founding principles. Biblical truths and ideals have been sadly lost to #wokeism, which has for all practical purposes become a religion in itself

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B. M.A.D Amerikent

 

I Do not advocate violence but I do advocate self-defense, getting tha attention of tha people who need
to change this system and bring about a radical, revolutionary change in a language that tha murderous oppressors understand. Now with that said, "CONSIDERING WHAT AMERIKlAN HAS DONE TO BLACK PEOPLE, WE HAVE BEEN OVERLY TOLERANT" which is TRU All over this country fires have been raging. From Minneapolis to San Jose, Atlanta to Texas, Washington DC, and others. Tha misdirected angers People who are angry (and afraid) and simply don’t know what to do. People who see three police officers are still not charged and walking free. People who realize even now tha coroner in Minneapolis is helping pave tha way for tha murderer to cut a deal. People, black and white, who are standing together because they have had enough of tha Eric Garners, tha Sandra Bland, tha Philando Castiles, tha Ahmad Aubreys, tha George Floyds, and a host of others black, all dead. Then we have to see a young black CNN reporter on the air doing his job get handcuffed and taken away for no reason while CNN was broadcasting. AMERICKLAN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

B M.A.D people program we have a president who wants to turn back tha clock so wake tha fuck up and realize what is happening. And if you think you have “arrived” because you have a nice house, a nice car, a nice salary, wear a suit and people smile and talk with you, wake up because you are in a delusional coma. People smile but plot behind the smile... I know not all people or all cops But too many! For decades people have marched peacefully, protested in an orderly manner, hosted candlelight vigils, and practically begged Ameriklan. And what happened? So to tell people about peace and patience while tha racism knee is on tha neck of  Amerikents.  it's Ironically they still expect us to roll over and let it continue. 

In 2020 armed militia with assault weapons stormed tha capital of Michigan, not once but twice over being asked to shelter in place 

• Michigan protests lockdown armed capitol

And in Virginia, armed militias threatened to storm tha state capital to stand against gun reform

• VirginiaGovernor declares state emergency militia threats gun 

So why weren’t they called thugs, domestic terrorists by this joke of a president, arrested, held down til dead, hunted down in neighborhoods and shot?

 {I will give you one guess. plz comment below} 

They carried tha same type of weapons used in almost all of tha active shooter killings done by people who looked like them. But tha news media didn’t lose its mind and tha country didn’t go into a mass panic. Why not? We have seen too many bad people and cops get away with murder when they did it. We need stronger solutions than ( Maybe) Cause maybe that is what we should have done we should have just gone home and been quiet our ancestors could not vote. Maybe we should have just stayed in Massa’s ole barn and not caused any trouble. Maybe we should have just gone to tha back of the bus and shut up. Tha Hell with that and you know it. Maybe someone should tell Ameriklan that has been in battle after battle, war after war, including tha one waged against tha African American community. Maybe someone should tell tha racists who chased Aubrey through tha streets and killed Floyd. Or maybe those who think like slaves should go back in tha barn and put the chains back on while tha rest of us fight for real freedom. As Ameriklan burns, is Amerikents learning anything? Freedom for all kinds of communities will happen and you cannot kill it with bullets, tanks, flashbangs, racism, rubber bullets, or bean bags because tha desire for freedom burns far too brightly in tha hearts of the people. Ameriklan change your ways. And if you can’t, "maybe we should have more of tha teachings of Malcolm X than those of Dr. King...

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Ame-Ri-Kent Violence

Tha lie of supremacy governs Ame-Ri-Kent society in implicit and explicit ways, but it also lives in tha minds of too many Native people. This cruel fact allows supremacy to show up in places where people are absent, and fuels tha need some people to feel to measure their intellect and success against Ame-Ri-Kent standards. This is a sickness many of us won’t be cured of. Too often tha desire to be viewed as different causes fissures between individuals and community. Tha lies told about people can harm other races, but they cripple tha people who believe them. I understand wanting to rise above tha negative stereotypes and imagery associated with this thing call lyfe. It’s stressful carrying around psychological baggage someone else packed for you. I’ve lived and worked in predominantly environments for tha majority of my lyfe. Tha temptation to succumb to tha trap of acceptance is as real as tha air we breathe. No one’s ever overtly asked me to distance myself from tha Ame-Ri-Kent community, but I’ve been in situations where tha opportunity to slide into tha “different than tha others” category has been extended.

These opportunities take tha form of water cooler discussions about racial hot topics and/or other existential questions about Ame-Ri-Kent in Ame-Ri-Klan. You may consciously or unconsciously be asked to center feelings about race at a time of suffering. Almost 5 years after tha death of Trayvon Martin Ame-Ri-Kent community should be united in saying Lives Matter Period, but too many professional have retreated to the political and economic safe space... All of tha educational, political, and economic distinctions people have created to distinguish ourselves from Ame-Ri-Kent community are imaginary. They have gravitas in our heads and maybe among our contemporaries, but they purchase very little in a society that stigmatizes skin color of any hue. Denigrating Ame-Ri-Kent in exchange for Ame-Ri-Klan acceptance isn’t a viable solution to Ame-Ri-Klan’s race problem. Denial can’t insulate you from racial profiling and discrimination. No level of self-aggrandizement can make someone who’s never accepted you accept you. Racism functions with or without consent.

My goal isn’t to deflect or silence meaningful criticism of our community. I’ve intentionally avoided personally attacking my colleagues who willfully engage in this one-sided violence against poor and less educated Ame-Ri-Kent. Tha Ame-Ri-Klan community loses when our intellectuals and pseudointellectuals act like mixtape rappers. I don’t want anyone physically harmed for their beliefs; likewise, I don’t want people building and maintaining platforms on the back of people suffering. You can’t love people you constantly distance yourself from. As an Ame-Ri-Kent, we should welcome a variety of economic and political ideas into tha conversation, but not if those ideas are focused on obfuscating tha realities people face. One sure fire way to avoid being labeled an “Uncle Tom” is to support our people in public: especially when It’s not tha politically expedient thing to do

GloriouslySheStood

She stood gloriously, her hair swallowed by a red scarf, tha strength and glory of her taut brown face a symbol of a beauty that does not fade. Still, I imagine, she likely wouldn’t make tha cover of some glamour magazine today without an “extreme makeover” or perhaps a perm or touch of silky hair weave these dayz.....And yet for me represents tha essence of those beautiful women like my grandmother, who rocked generations of babies, whispered prayers over us, nursed us by our bedsides with tenderness from sickness to health, and poured their love and souls into tha posterity of their families.

Harriet Tubman tha story of tha late-night freedom train, tha river crossings, tha terror; as I soaked in tha images and tales of courage, especially of a women, I am deeply moved.....And I was never more certain of tha need for us as African American men to celebrate, uplift and embrace tha beauty of a women who gave most of us lyfe, who have borne our children, whom we call mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and in whose likeness we also are made....For also evident in tha museum was tha historic degradation and humiliation of African American women etchings of naked, brutalized sisters lynched from trees or lying shackled. Our docent spoke of countless African American women sold as a “fancy“those “pretty,” usually light-skinned and used as sex slaves by masters........Amid my digestion of all tha sordid details, I was reminded of tha ways we as African American men since slavery have also sometimes partaken in tha degradation of  women. It has been manifested at times by our irresponsibility or abandonment, leaving them to raise our children alone, or sometimes by our caustic denigration, dehumanization or objectification that still dominates tha worst of rap music and videos, and that also permeates our culture.

I also know that all men are not guilty at least not completely conscious contributors to tha perpetuation of any notion that a African American woman’s beauty, in its natural-born, Afro-centric splendor, is less than tha beauty of other women...Still, I wonder about tha impact of growing up as African American boys bombarded with tha images of so called beautiful women from books to magazines to television and Hollywood movies images of women whose lauded physical traits bear little resemblance to tha general populous of African-American women. This much I have resolved: That if African American women feel compelled to perm their hair, to wear hair weaves that flow down their backs, or even to indulge in bleaching creams or color eye contacts just to make them “feel beautiful,” that is completely their choice.....But this much I also believe: That as a African American man, so many of us need a makeover–an internal rebirth or reshaping of tha lens through which we see tha beauty of African American women. For if we do not affirm, lift, love, embrace and treasure them just tha way God made them Theirs are tha precious wombs that carried us and our children. Their brown eyes and faces are tha ones in which we first saw tha light of love and lyfe. In their nappy roots lies our royal African lineage. And in tha incomparable strength of their bronze hips and arms, they have carried us, even our souls, all tha way to freedom.So to all my African American  sisters Happy Black History Month to tha Presence, Past and Future African American Women

Black History Month A.K.A American History

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Actress and political commentator Stacey Dash recently ruffled feathers by saying she didn’t think Black History Month nor ethnic television networks were necessary. Okay I think it would have better Ms Dash if you would have said it like this for years, I’ve suggested re-branding Black History Month as, American History Month. This suggestion isn’t an escape from Blackness, as some on both sides of the aisle felt. It’s a recognition that our community is interwoven into every strand of tha national fabric. I would observe American History Month by acting upon its central premise, which is: Black history is American history and American history is Black history.

For all our inescapable uniqueness, our experience always leads to one inescapable conclusion we are also universal.

This dynamic of uniqueness and unlversality is especially evident in a recurring-sometimes riotous-role involving criminal justice reform. American History Month would be a perfect stage to advocate the union of brothers and badges. Its 28 days in February could promote overlooked concern about violent crime shared by cops and Black male concerned citizens. It could highlight athletic leagues, school resource officers, police/community councils, and institutions like tha Los Angeles Police Department charter school, which close tha gap between police and Black men. Inner city supporters of law enforcement like ” Detroit Bat-man ” Walter Gildersleeve and New Orleans’ Brother Al Mims would be featured as further proof that brothers and badges can work together. That’s how I would celebrate Black History Month AKA American History Month. When it all said and done as for me I salute Ms StaceyDash for raised this overdue issue. Questioning segregation era practices in a time of fairly broad desegregation recognizes our universality, without ignoring the challenges of uniqueness.

Happy American History Month 2016! If anybody has tha right to call themselves American, it’s Black folks!

Inspiration to freedom fighters

So many brave African Americans have fought against rampant injustice in this world. Their voices are tha reason today’s youth can demand equality. They saw tha injustice and they were motivated to speak out. Because of their dedication to making tha world a better place, tha world can continue to grow in equality. They made a difference, and are an inspiration to freedom fighters the world over. Here are few of my Favorite 

Marcus Garvey

was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).[3] He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman is best known for the Underground Railroad. She was a strong-willed woman who put her lyfe at risk to help others gain freedom from slavery. For tha U.S. Army, she worked as a general cook, nurse, and cleaner. She was hired as a spy and in 1862 she went to South Carolina to help slaves gain their freedom. She was amazing, strong, and caring. She lived a full life and died at the age of 93 as a free woman.

Malcolm X

 was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history

Maya Angelou

was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. 

Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Jr. is most famous for his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech. From tha mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968 he was a civil rights activist and “charismatic leader of tha civil rights movement and Baptist minister who campaigned against segregation and for justice,” reports Raab Collection (coincidentally the best place to buy and sell letters from historical figures and signed documents). he was honored with a national holiday, public building commemorations, and many schools named for him, as well as many memorials. MLK Jr. will always be remembered. I prefer to remember him as tha man in mirror he made america look at it's self 

Sojourner Truth

Born in New York circa 1797, Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Her best-known speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" was delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention.

Nelson Mandela

was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.

Ella Baker

Born in 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia, Ella Baker became involved in political activism in the 1930s. She organized the Young Negroes Cooperative League in New York City, and later became a national director for the NAACP. In 1957, Baker joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whose first president was Martin Luther King, Jr. She also worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to support civil rights activism on college campuses. Baker died in New York City in 1986.

5 Reasons "Why All African American Men Should Vote".

1. It’s your right and a right that was fought for with blood. Many people died to give power to your voice and make sure that you have tha ability to fairly fight for equal rights to representation.

2.Votes Matter to tha Community: While African Americans people as a whole are believed to make up between 14 and 17% of tha population, African Americans communities tend to be concentrated in certain states, cities and towns. Tha consequences of not voting has historically meant loss of services and increases in taxes communities. Voting is not just about tha President, local officials, local governments, school boards, they all depend on community participation. Tha schools were literally gutted down to tha minimal resources while funds were reallocated to private Jewish school that made up less than 1% of tha predominately African Americans neighborhood. How? These types of things happen all over the country where African Americans men and women fail to elect leaders who represent their interest.

3. People are actively fighting to suppress YOUR VOTE: Across tha country states are locked into battles with tha supreme court for voter suppression. They use gerrymandering (A process of drawing out maps for favorable outcomes in elections for one party or another), voter id laws, voter misinformation and intimidation. This is going on right now in 2015 to stop African Americans and Hispanic voters from voting. Why invest so much time and money in stopping people from doing something that supposedly doesn’t matter. You’ve bought into tha hype if you think it’s ok not to vote, clearly it matters.

4. Voting Gets Dollars: Demographic blocks that vote get money allocated to them. It is true that politicians fall sway to lobbyist but they can’t keep their job if they can’t get tha votes. Tha easiest way to get tha money needed to improve schools, to fix roads, to get loans funded for new development is to VOTE. Once you vote them in, keep pressure on them to perform. Emails, phone calls, a quick visit to their local office can work wonders. You are tha employer and you may be surprised to learn that politicians often aim to please! Use that to your advantage and improve our communities.

5. It’s Good for you: Seriously, it is! Voting is a first step towards tha process of civic engagement. Tha more you know about your local government, tha more you can get things done around your neighborhood that you’ve long wanted to see changed. It also sets a good example for your family and friends. If you have kids, they are more likely to feel empowered by their own abilities and rights and grow up to carry on protecting tha changes we are fighting for now! Voting is important for so many reasons beyond tha election season. Getting tha harsh prison sentences, tha economic oppression, tha hostile school environments and so many issues under control depends on our vote. Now is not tha time to abandon tha system, there’s been plenty of that and we’re living in tha consequence. Vote and get everyone you can to vote, we need you to exercise that right w.e "HEAVILY PAID THA COST " for.

Tha bottom line: 

WE NEED TO!

Almost fifty two year period of (“I have a dream”)

During this almost fifty two year period from 1963 (“I have a dream!”) to 2015…. African-American people have been on a virtual economic treadmill….. Our relative economic position has not changed; our unemployment rate has consistently been twice as high as tha Caucasian unemployment rate, which was 5% for Caucasian and 10.9% for African-American in 1963, and today it’s 6.6% for Caucasian and 12.6% for African-American. Our aggregate annual income is $1.1 trillion, but to believe it are not it’s not what you earn; it’s what you’re worth: Tha typical Caucasian family had $134,200 in wealth in 2014, while African-American families had $11,000, lower too than Hispanic families, at $13,700. Tha U.S. has a $17.7 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP), tha world’s largest economy. Tha total Gross Domestic Income (GDI), which some economists say is a better measure of an economy, was $9.3 trillion as of the 4th quarter of 2014. A recent Pew Research study indicates that tha financial gap between African-American and Caucasian is tha highest it’s been since 1989. In 2010, the median wealth of Caucasian households was eight times higher than African-American; now it’s seventeen times higher. Tha African-American economy, by either measure, GDP or GDI, despite reports of robust economic growth, remains mired in a recession. You awake yet……Lol…. So what can we do about it? Please, don’t take that fatal leap of faith in thinking the “government” will take care of it. They are too busy counting our income as a huge part of GDP, because we spend nearly all of our $1.1 trillion on goods and services, which comprise 70% of GDP…. We must extrapolate a logical and appropriate response to tha above information. All tha reports in tha world will do us no good if we fail to learn from them and then act upon what we know. After that, we must do our part as individuals to contribute to tha collective economic/political uplift of our people and future generations. What do we have, as individuals, to contribute to our economic and political success? Will some of us have votes, All of us have dollars; and if we cast our votes with leverage and spend our dollars strategically we can achieve parity. Let’s face it, to chase tha illusion of economic “equality,” via income and wealth, will only keep us diverted from setting practical and achievable goals. MLK was partially correct when he posited that by obtaining employment in White corporations and using either strategic consumption or boycotts as leverage, African-American could secure economic equality, just as we had secured civil rights. He was right about tha leverage of our dollars, but wrong about tha result of us getting jobs in corporate America. Tha above statistics prove that. Chasing equality instead of parity is futile, in that we are always chasing someone else’s standard, a standard that can be elevated at any time, thus never to be attained by tha pursuer. We must use our own intellectual and financial capacity to change our shameful and static economic position in this nation since MLK spoke in 1963. Going on almost Fifty two years of chasing an illusion are enough? We squandered our economic base and abdicated our personal economic responsibility when we abandoned our businesses to buy from others. We gave in to tha notion that we could be equal if we elected African-American folks to political office. So it’s up to us to admit those near fatal mistakes and work together to rectify them by pooling our resources, locally and nationally, and growing our businesses to tha point where they can hire our own people. We must gather enough conscious independent-thinking voters who will cast their votes as a bloc for tha candidate that supports our best interests. Enough with tha pre-election condescending rhetoric, kissing our babies, and coming to our churches at election time; they must explicitly state their support of our issues and follow through on that support. If we cannot win, why play? We must save more money, irrespective of how much or how little we have. We must own property, or at least rent from one another. African-American collectively lost between $164 billion and $213 billion in housing wealth as a result of sub-prime debacle. (And we are seeking “wealth equality”?) Therefore, we must also invest in stocks, and not tie all of our assets to real estate. We must find ways to decrease or eliminate our reliance on college loans, which will be a generational albatross around tha necks of our youth, their parents, and even grandparents. And while we are at it, we should be petitioning the “government” for a massive student loan bailout. You know, tha way tha banks got bailed out of their debt.