#BlackWallStreet is a very serious reminder of the dissimilar history African American businesses had to endure, endured, things, that most of "The Newly Arrived" would've never survived. And, despite our history: Today, they ask "Why can't you just be like the good Asians".
You could have built to the moon 🌚 and watch it all disappear, all in one night, all in one night! The legal beneficiaries of our pain, being falsely compared to us. Centuries of working for free; due to slavery,
And, now, this. After all that — and we were supposedly "free".
#BlackWallStreet is kind of a subtle reminder of the precarious nature of black-owned businesses in a satanic, white-supremacist society. You, watch it all disappear in one night! All, because some idiot (neighbor) hates your skin-color.
White Supremacists have burned your #BlackBusiness down.
So, what are you gonna do?
You bring your grievance to local politicians.
And, they, say, "Oh! Well, Mr. Negro, that is most unfortunate. But, we can’t do nothin 'bout that— we need those same racist votes!"
You do the good American thing! Do what The Constitution suggest that you do: You petition “the Government for a redress of grievances”.
But, that same government says, "I am sorry, Mr. Negro. It's a very complicated matter. States have “rights” that Government can’t tread on!"
"Things don't change,.
WE CHANGE."
"It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all."
— Saint Augustine
Lex iniusta non est lex (English: An unjust law is no law at all), is a standard legal maxim.
“Originating with St. Augustine (an African), the motto was quoted by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement to describe racial segregation.”
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
— Edmund Burke
Neither, in my opinion, is safe.
— Edmund Burke
Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium
The American people have this lesson to learn, that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails,
... and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property would be safe.” . . .
"Communism robs the individual of his personal initiative and ambition or the result thereof" -- Marcus Garvey #BlackLivesMatter#tcot
"Historian Harold Cruse calls Garvey's movement "the biggest stumbling block to Communist penetration into Negro life." And adds that this was "a fact that the Communists never forgot.""
— Elizabeth Wright
"Although liberal black nationalists have incorporated his Pan-African perspective into their philosophy, they have willfully neglected the fact that Mr. Garvey – who was an admirer of Booker T. Washington – was a staunch capitalist."
-- Shay Riley
"No group worked harder to recruit American blacks than the Communist Party. Throughout the 1920s, the Communists did all they could to capture Garvey disciples and undermine his influence."
— Elizabeth Wright
Marcus Garvey: ‘Look for me in the whirlwind’, – (circa) 1924
"Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West."
'Our leaders say the race problem will be solved thru higher education. Thru better education, black and white will come together, that day will never happen until Africa is redeemed. Cause if those who like W.E.B Dubois believe that the ...
... race problem will be solved in America thru higher education, they will work between now and eternity and never see the problem solved."
"I maintain that Malcolm X was, for much of his public life, a black conservative."
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
The Black Conservative Connection
The Connection: Malcolm X’s father was a Garveyite, and Marcus Garvey was inspired and informed by the teachings of Booker T. Washington!
2020 Update: Roland Fryer is wrong: There is racial bias in shootings by police
"The specific flaws of Roland Fryer's paper have now been characterized in two studies (by other scholars, not myself). Knox, Lowe, and Mummolo (2019) ...." nytimes.com/2016/07/12/ups…
What's fascinating to me about The Republican Party and #CriticalRaceTheory: The Republican Party was created to free people from a White Supremacist institution.
The Democrats used to mock it by calling it "The Black Party".
Using Diversity for White Supremacy: The Lily-White Movement
"To avoid criticism, one or two blacks were usually seated with lily-white delegations to the national gatherings. ...
'To avoid criticism, one or two blacks were usually seated with lily-white delegations to the national gatherings. The lily-whites gained new momentum with the adoption of the poll tax and the passage of the Terrell Election Law (see ELECTION LAWS).'
"A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning."
— Derrick Bell
"The system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY."
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
Mothers are not perfect. But, like old wine, as they age, the better they become as a person.
"If there's a heaven up above
I know she's teaching angels how to love"
The Spinners - "Sadie"
"Philippe Wynne of The Spinners, one of the greatest soul singers of all time was raised in an orphanage after his mum and dad divorced. "The hardest thing about being there was knowing they were both alive"
He died aged just 43."
“Oh, Sadie
Don't you know we love you,
sweet Sadie? 🎶
Place no one above you
Sweet Sadie
🎶 Living in the past...”