I want my country back. You know, that great place that was America.
Not a day passes without someone commenting on how degraded our country
has become, yet Americans are fearful when they itemize just EXACTLY
what those changes have been, and WHO is responsible. Well, let's
see…. The USA I was raised in was whiter, less violent, more honest, Christian,
and less influenced by Blacks, Jews and homosexuals.
Hey, it's the truth. Now let's explore what blacks, Jews and homosexuals
do to our country.
In the past two weeks, we have seen the print and television media
savage the new administration and their followers for being White and Christian.
Tom Brokaw made snide references to the Bush "klan" heading to WASP "enclaves".
Paul Begala described the Red voting block as ignorant, racist and violent
with one broad, sweeping brush. Now comes Gene Weingarten, a Jew at the
Washington post who said pretty much the same stuff in a nasty column the
day after the inaugural. Read it HERE. When White Christians make
sweeping generalizations about groups based upon individual acts of a few,
they are roundly denounced and demonized as "haters" and dangerous bigots.
When Jews, Blacks and homosexuals do the same thing, they are published
in the country's premiere publications.
Philip Weiss, another Jew, writes, in the New York Observer, "Don't
hold your breath" waiting for Jews in a Bush cabinet. The tone of the article
was clearly a swipe at the Bush administration and Christians in general,
as anti-Semites. This smarmy bastard even drew comparisons between the
"ignorant gun-toting Christians at Waco, and the "pogroms" against Jews
in the last century. [could it be those "pogroms" began as acts of self-defense?]
The next week we had Rabbi's describing a proposed Christian theme
park in Florida as "dangerous", together with another round of pooh pooh's
over the impregnated aid to the "reverend" Jackson. ["He got da itch, so
got him some bitch!", sniff his defenders]
The REAL kicker for me, however, was the unmitigated gall of
Clinton telling Israeli's that citizenship for Palestinians would destroy
the nature and purpose of the Jewish state. THIS - from the man
who flooded our country with breeding illiterati from every sewer on the
planet, in an effort which has now forever altered the majority of our
once proud nation. Clinton, his Jewish cabinet AND administration
have further destroyed the homogenous nature of a once proud Christian
nation. And they do it with impunity.
These are Anti-Christs. There is no other word for it. What else to
call it? When Blacks, Jews Homosexuals and Socialists make these outrageous
claims about the white majority, there is only silence - silence and cheering
from the beneficiaries of their bigotry. We call it anti-white, anti-Christian,
and anti-White European. No -- the word we are searching for is Anti-Christ.
Item: A largely Jewish ACLU is now threatening to sue any municipality
that doesn't banish the Boy Scouts. It matters not that the Supreme Court
has decreed that freedom of association trumps their homosexual agenda
for our children.
Item: Alan Dershowitz writes a book urging Jews not to marry outside
their own faith and ethnicity. Yet a single visit to a white religious
college that wants the same privilege for their students is cause for vilification
and a mandatory apology by a cabinet appointee. Black only, or Jewish colleges?
- an admirable cause.
Black and Homosexual Clubs? - noble ventures. Christian prayer groups?
- Dangerous, hateful and exclusionary.
The New OJ World
The Anti-Christs have taken over our judiciary as well. We have OJ
justice for blacks by black only juries, yet white juries are typically
demonized as racist when they convict the black killers, rapists, and thieves
who routinely savage our once quiet neighborhoods. No one in congress wants
to look into the tax exempt shenanigans of Jesse Jackson, yet we hear rumblings
from Anti-Christs that government must take away the tax-exempt status
of websites who just LINK to political action groups.
A new scam has been legitimized in Palos Hills Illinois [not 10 miles
from the place of my birth] A couple has successfully bilked a landlord
for $64,000 in an anti discrimination suit, charging that they were denied
housing because their 6 year old son was black. The proof? -Said child
tried to set himself on fire, saying it was HIS fault they didn't
get the house.
Enough is enough. I'm tired of being labeled, and bullied, lied to
and scammed by, the thought police, the holocaust junkies, and homosexual
activists who charge that there is something wrong with ME. THEY
publish hateful rhetoric, yet I am the hater. THEY preach inclusion,
while they practice discrimination. THEY prey on our children, yet
I am not allowed to flee.
HERESIES/R/US
Last month I received a record number of proposals of marriage from
carolontheweb.com readers. Most suitors confessed they were already married
-- but they want me to know they WOULD marry me if their wives would
let them. I appreciate that. My essays on multi-culturalism and anti-white
racism strike a lonely chord with readers who seem starved for straight
talk and common sense opinions on the subject. I speak the unspeakable
and print the unprintable. I say it like it is. And my readers love me
for it.
I discovered the folly of selling words by publishing a newspaper.
If you sell words, they must be packaged. And if you package em, they lose
their freshness. Buyers of words insist on 'standards', but freshness is
never one of them. People who pay for words know they have the power to
influence which words will be sold. This is the game of the Anti-Christs.
And they are masters at it. So now I write because I'm - well - pissed
off.
Anyone who gives a tinkers farthing about the future of our civilization,
should be pissed off. I've been in a permanent funk since about November
of 1992, when a powerful, highly toxic counter-culture of Anti-Christs,
launched a successful search and destroy mission on the traditional values,
which produced the miracle that was America. Although these misfits, miscreants
and perverts owed their very existence to the successful white conservative
foundation of the country, they seized the occasion of an unusual three-way
race for the American Presidency, to launch a destructive coup against
MY
America.
When these revolting rebels captured just 43% of the vote in the 3-way
race, no one in the press reminded them that they didn't win a majority
and thus, had no mandate. So the bastard child of an inbred Arkie, seized
the country, her courts, newspapers and television, for an 8-year, all
out, non-stop assault on everything we hold dear. And it's still not over.
We may be rid of the Commander-In-Heat, but his demonic, insatiable
followers have been so emboldened by his lawlessness, that they still control
our movies, TV, newspapers, the judiciary, academia, and much of our future.
Dummy GOPers are so fearful of Jewish hate speech, and black or
homosexual dogma, that they cannot combat the demons effectively. And they
ARE
demons --demonizing all things White, Anglo, traditional, and Christian,
in favor of the failed ethnicities and cultures of the Middle East, Africa
and Latin America.
No Brainer of the Day
As Jews asserted more influence on our country and politics, we began
to have the same wars, conflict and hatreds they have fomented in EVERY
host country they have visited. The more Africans we acquired, the more
like Africa we became. Ditto for Latin America. I don't have to tell readers
what happens to societies filled with homosexuals and statists. Why must
we learn all these lessons over and over and over again??
I am a white Anglo-American. I live in the Red Zone. I like White Anglo-American
morality and self-governance. It's what I was taught. White Christian values
were good to my family and me. Men married women, and stayed to raise their
children. Our house was unlocked. Ditto for mailboxes, down at the end
of the lane. Car keys were left on the seat. We had a community garden.
Apple, peach, and mulberry trees fed the neighborhood. My horse lived in
the paddock behind my bedroom window, under an apple tree.
My mom was Donna Reed in a babushka. Dad was a milkman when milkmen
were self-employed salesmen for real dairies. He sold butter by the tub,
eggs and cream. We built our own home and lived without debt. My mom was
the Welcome Wagon Hostess; dad was the director of the local theatre group.
AND
--hold on to your blood sugar -- My dog was a Border Collie named Shep.
The 30 years I've spent in the West were much like the suburban Illinois
of my youth. In "Red" America you don't have to prepay your gasoline. [This
is a shorthand measure of any town] I don't want to live anywhere where
enough customers steal their gas, that we all pay the price.
In an aside..I remember once, the sheriff came into the local bar and
restaurant to tell everybody to "Listen UP!" His big announcement was that
he WOULD start prosecuting for car theft if locals kept taking somebody
else's vehicle to drive home before closing. He shook his finger at all
of us, saying he was sick of hunting for cars at 2 A.M, just because somebody
walked down to town, and then was too tired, or drunk, to walk home. [You
gotta love a town like that. We were all guilty as charged. BUT,
we told him; we ONLY took trucks from those who really deserved
it. And hell, we left em just a few blocks up the hill -didn't we?]
That was youthful crime in Homogenous White America. It's gone. And
I'm pissed. I'll compare passport stamps with anyone. I've seen a whole
lot of the world, and it can be described as an ongoing multi-ethnic hate
crime with museums. AND it's being delivered to us by the planeload
- by our enemies - who tell us the problem is US.
So no, Mr's Weiss, Weingarten, Begala, and everybody else with bergs,
ski's and precious metals in their surnames…. YOU are the problem.
[Offended readers Go-Choke-On-It Remember those nasty, sweeping generalities
about Reds?]
I have zero problems with people of any color who share my values.
The problem has never been melanin, but the toxicity of failed cultures
of unlike peoples who are swamping the lifeboat of our Republic. I don't
give a horses petuti which God you worship OR if your genetic heritage
is Middle Eastern, Latin American or equatorial. I will NOT, however,
sit idly by and watch you manipulate everything we see, hear, eat, smell,
or speak, while you position yourselves and your race pimps in the power
elite for the express purpose of manipulating the politics of MY
country to YOUR advantage, in a war against ME.
I am an unapologetic and quite proud White American of European heritage.
WE
have created the last best hope for mankind in an experiment called America.
Our infectious recipe for equal parts liberty and responsibility created
this great republic. Immigrants from the failed societies of Africa, Asia
and the Middle East must either assimilate or perish. They cannot and WILL
NOT be allowed to spread their poisonous practices any longer. And
- we must civilize the ones we have before we take on any more.
The crime stats on black on white crime are irrefutable evidence that
we need a breather from any more "diversity", foisted upon us by those
caring multi-culturalists among us, with their double, and triple standards
for behavior for all.
So you don't have to write…. I can hear the knee slapping as I type.
--- "You GO Girl! - Right on Lady!! - Right ON!!
Amen! Amen! Amen!®
Carol
Carol on theWeb
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With most of our stories today, we are asked to step back in time,
from the present to view the life and times of those who came before us.
This report departs from that tradition, and invites you to project yourself
into the future; and from that future, look at the path of this generation.
I invite you to come with me to 2050.
Fifty years ago, the United States government was forced to apologize
for the enslavement of millions of Africans and their descendants in North
America and the Caribbean. In addition to the apology, trillions of dollars
were assessed as the material component of the reparations agreement.
The congressional apology and signed agreement making reparations a
legal commitment came on June 19th, the historical holiday marking the
date that the word of freedom reached Africans enslaved in Texas. For some,
this was the long awaited companion piece to the Emancipation Proclamation
which freed the African but failed to repay the lifetimes of stolen paydays,
or repair the emotional, social, psychological, cultural and economic devastation
of White Supremacy and its war of enslavement, from which African descendants
still suffered.
For most Euro-Americans, that land mark day signaled the rebirth of
a new America, one that had the courage to face the truth about its origins
and the will to distance itself from the wrongdoings of its founders, whose
ill-gotten wealth still served them well. This was an America that dared
to look anew at its birth to see it for the first time through the eyes
of its diverse population:
No, Columbus did not discover America. He was discovered on the shores
of what is now called America by people who did not call themselves Americans,
nor their homeland America. Yes, this new America was founded by people
longing to be free of hunger, debt, prison, and wanting the freedom to
do to others what they did not want done to themselves. No, America was
not founded on truth, justice, and Christian principles. It was founded
on greed, genocide, conquest, and enslavement. No, America was not born
a democracy, it was born a slaveocracy, with the invaders (not settlers
or pioneers) living off the toil and misery of millions of Native peoples,
and kidnaped Africans held in chains, branded and treated as beast of burden,
mere chattle.
No, the founding fathers were not superior people. Perhaps they are
superior criminals, having stolen a continent, and all its gold, oil, and
other resources; killed millions of people while taking the land; kidnaped
and enslaved millions more to work the land, lived off the fruits of stolen
land and labor for 400 years, and protected their stolen property, white
privilege, and terrorist behaviors with lies, laws, and recorded propaganda,
called history, science, and facts.
To the African captives and those indigenous victims of Americanism:
Black, Brown, and Red Nations dispossessed of their land and way of life,
the US Constitution was not sacred in its conception. To them, it was a
document drafted to bring order and honor among thieves, to regulate the
behavior of pirates, rapists, murders, and thugs, in their pursuit of happiness
at the expense of other Nations, indigenous and foreign.
So, June 19th, or Juneteenth as it is called, was a new day for all
America, a sacred opportunity for atonement, for a new beginning to design
an America that worked for all the people. A day that placed a marker between
its dark past and a brilliant future.
The down payment on the reparations agreement equaled one half of the
then known debt to Africans in America. The remainder to be paid in installments
over the next 25 generations, as 25 was the number of generations of Africans
who had endured White supremacy of which slavery was one manifestation.
For it was clearly shown that White supremacy was the premise upon which
slavery and continuing harm was based.
Once convinced that their reparations' settlement would be multi-dimensional,
and would address the diverse economic development, health, educational,
and habilitation needs of the Black family and their communities disorganized
by drugs, violence, self-hatred, illiteracy, ignorance, and disease --
several innovative strategies were used to determine the informed will
of the African community. These communities were surveyed and re-surveyed
for information on what they thought would repair the damage. With the
synthesizing of findings from each survey, Black Think Tanks met to design
or redesign a settlement proposal and receiver structure that reflected
the findings. The surveys kept changing because the people kept learning
the depth and breadth of their problems in need of repair. This was necessary,
as it was agreed that after 100 years from the date of the final payment,
there could be no further claims against the US government for this particular
reparations issue. Periodic assessments were necessary to monitor the progress
of the repair.
Other strategies used to determine the will of the African community,
included congressional hearings, town meetings, focus groups, voting online,
radio and TV call-in shows, and various voting opportunities. Africans
throughout the USA contributed to designing the settlement, and for the
first time in four centuries of White rule, Black people experienced a
sense of democracy and self-determination in their lives.
In the end, the agreement included something for everyone: organizational,
community, group, family, and individual. The following is a snapshot of
what those remedies looked like.
Community Based Organizational Support: Previously underfunded, and
loosely organized community-based service, health, economic development
and advocacy organizations in the African community received funds to support
their projects. In addition, they received appropriate management and training
assistance to assure the success of their efforts. Banking and Credit Union
Institutions: With the anticipated infusion of resources into the communities
for business development, goods, and services, the community, through the
surveys, made it clear that they would not funnel their reparations resources
through banks that had practiced redlining, racism, and other predatory
lending practices in their communities. They organized their group ownership
and business interests under the name, New Afrikan, Inc. Through this entity,
the financial needs of these communities are serviced by their own Central
Bank and a network of community credit unions, banking and business service
centers across the nation staffed with well-trained, multi-lingual Africans
from all over the world. These competent men and women exude confidence
and self-respect. You can see it in their professionalism, courteousness,
and the service they provide to all who enter.
Their Business Centers provide entrepreneurs with on-going training
and the environment within which to transact their personal and business
finance without exposure to racial bias. They are no longer at the mercy
of White controlled institutions that impact the quality of their lives
or their economic well-being. Their businesses and communities are thriving.
Also, well funded were a number of Black Philanthropist and Research
Foundations. These have been responsible for major strides and accomplishments
in health, education, and economic development in the African and other
communities throughout the world.
Repatriation - To Return to One's Country: The Black community had
been reduced by several million people. These had opted to return to African
and other friendly countries that welcomed them. A number of descendants
of enslaved Africans claimed to have found their bloodline and kin as a
result of genealogical research and DNA testing that was made available
as part of the settlement. Not all were curious about their kin, most just
wanted to resettle in peace. No, the United States government didn't hand
over millions of airline tickets or conduct a steady airlift of people
leaving the country, as they had done for Russian Jews migrating to Israel.
(For those of you too young to remember, Israel is a part of the former
Palestinian country that had been carved out to resettle Jewish victims
of the European holocaust of 1942-1947.) A part of the Black reparations
settlement package included their own transportation infrastructure: The
Black Star Line of ships, airplanes, and vans so named in honor of an ancient
ancestor, Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
The Black Star Lines enabled Africans to come and go as they pleased,
visiting relatives throughout the world and conducting business across
five continents on a scale unimagined in earlier years. Some who had never
ventured outside of the communities where they were born, ventured out
to see the world.
For spiritual reasons, many chose to return by ship taking the same
path as their African foreparents had been brought over. This time, however,
they did not travel like sardines in the hull of a ship. They traveled
5000 to a luxury liner, fully staffed. equipped with private and family
rooms, well-staffed medical facilities, sports' equipment, laundry, cleaners,
and recreational facilities. They participated in classes and seminars
during the day, and showcased the variety of talent on board during the
evenings. They were well-fed with the best variety of healthy foods, available
at any hour. Children, youth, and the elderly were well taken care of by
a special staff to address their every need.
Several floating-state-of-the-art hospitals accompanied the flotilla
of ships.
Debt Relief and Reparations to African Countries for Returnees:
The countries to which Africans from America had returned were relieved
of all debt to former colonizers and participants in the transatlantic
war of enslavement. Additionally, these African countries were accorded
the infrastructure development needed to hold the returnees, similar to
what the USA provided European Jewish people settling in the newly-formed-Israel.
Infrastructure development included the equipment, resources, expertise,
and training to build communities with roads, hospitals, homes, water and
sewage systems, electricity, Internet and other telecommunication wiring.
They also built state-of-the-art schools and recreational facilities which
were opened to the entire community. Youth and adult education was coupled
with on-the-job training and apprenticeships to assist in the building
of the infrastructure.
Similar infrastructure resources supported the development of new Co-op
communities in the USA. Homes, apartments, facilities, and supporting businesses
were owned as part of a collective, the common wealth. A number of these
communities were built around prison facilities that had been converted
into educational, vocational training, technology development and art centers,
including community owned radio and television stations. This too was a
part of the reparations' settlement, as well as a transfer of U.S. prisons,
surrounding land, and the resources to habilitate, train, and treat men
and women impacted by drugs and other social ills. Under the leadership
of committed men and women, these prison facilities and communities were
transformed into beacons of hope for hundreds of thousands of families
whose sons, daughters, and spouses languished in prison. These institutions
now include holistic health and healing centers, providing a comprehensive
continuum of care with mental health and drug treatment.
Literacy, general education, vocational and technical training became
the foundation of the work in prison. In addition, men and women were taught
the history of self that they, and all of America and indeed the world
had been denied. Other activities included spiritual and transformation
workshops in which they learned what it meant to love themselves and their
family and friends. They learned to treat their enemies with all due respect
and to see the drugs, guns, and poisonous foods that proliferated in their
communities as instruments of death and oppression designed to destroy,
neutralize, and minimize the competition. They learned how to think critically
and to see themselves as valuable contributions to life.
These communities supply their own foods. A fair amount of land was
set aside for organic farming of fruits and vegetables, including fish
farms and some livestock.
Indeed, a Congress of Black Social Workers, Psychologist, Psychiatrist,
Clergy and other health professions designed a mass-based approach for
addressing Willie Lynch behaviors, Post-traumatic slavery syndromes, and
the cultural, emotional, and psychological harm which had its roots in
the African experience in America from slavery to the present. Their exemplary
African Centered services became the key to mental health, successful habilitation,
drug treatment, sustained recovery, and prevention. Their service models
demonstrated the value of holistic African centered approaches to recovery.
While first targeted at Black inmates, treatment and habilitation became
recognized as the most effective and successful model ever developed with
the inmate population and was eventually made available to all inmates
who could benefit from it.
Business Enterprise/Jobs-for-Life: Jobs had long been a problem
for African people in the USA. First, there were jobs (full-employment)
but no pay. This was slavery, followed by peonage, sharecropping, and lend-lease.
Then there were few jobs with little pay. And some jobs with more pay,
but not equal pay to that of Whites. With reparations, jobs quickly became
a non-issue in African communities. Flourishing manufacturing and production
institutions soon dotted the landscapes of urban and rural communities
alike. The fashion centers are now in Urban communities that were once
written off as total losses. African clothiers and fashion designers have
their own lines and name brands, these have replaced the names of those
who once showed African youth disrespect. Much of this business is conducted
over the Internet reaching a worldwide market. Buying Black, a campaign
initiated in by-gone years, is not so hard to do. For most everything people
in these communities want, or need are made in their communities and repatriated
African communities abroad.
No, these communities were not segregated by law, or choice. The settlement
dealt with the community and whoever was in the community benefitted, due
to the needs of the businesses to hire more people than the African community
could supply.
Under the name, New Afrikan, Inc., a string of hotels and conference
centers accommodate the African populations' new worldliness. The hotels
stand majestically in major cities throughout Africa and North, Central
and South America, Asia, and Europe. These hotels with state-of-the-art
conference centers, health, fitness, and recreational facilities were among
the first major group enterprises providing career opportunities for African
contractors, architects, engineers, interior designers, plumbers, electricians,
carpenters, management training and employment at all levels. The absence
of Black owned hotels had been a longstanding complaint within the African
communities, given the disrespect shown to Black conference participants
despite the vast revenues left in the hotels and surrounding businesses
each year.
A unique feature of hotels in Africa is the long-term time-share units
which accommodated African families in search of their former homelands
or a friendly country in which to resettle. Families or individuals could
live in a time-share for up to one year, then move to another time-share
hotel in another African country. These remain popular today for those
who wish to experience more of Africa and its people or who are doing business
which require extended stays.
Transportation was another major enterprise of the group: The
Afri-cars, produced by New Afrikan, Inc., in the USA, South Africa, and
Ghana line the highways of the world. You know the sleek personalized cars
by their strong exotic names: Zebra, Gazelle, Panther, Tiger and the like.
Their safety, durability, and fuel efficiency records are surpassed by
none. Equally well, they build, manufacture, and service their own ships,
airplanes, super trucks, and van lines.
The Digital Divide was bridged by Black youth who built their own computers
with the same ease they once brought to souped up cars. They designed computer
games and software programs to support their businesses and community organizations
which once marketed beyond their communities, set new standards for the
industry.
Our youth have become connoisseurs of life instead of death. They still
enjoy a nice shoe and a smooth ride, but these are made in the East: East
Harlem, East Texas, and East Mississippi. The shoes produced in these communities
are not only stylish, but the most comfortable, pampering the feet of all
who wear them. Multi-national retailers flock to their factories to show
evidence of their nonracist, nonsexist policies to be able to carry their
lines.
Black youths who once saw sports as their only vehicle of escape from
poverty and the ghetto, still excel in sports but now in every sport, whether
on water, ice, snow, land, and sea or in the air. With reparations, they
were able to bring state-of-the-art facilities and top notch coaches to
their communities. These coaches demanded excellence in academics as well.
Most of the youths, however, excel in math, science, medicine, engineering,
and architecture with the same excellence and excitement, as do their athletic
counterparts. Instead of summer jobs, they have become entrepreneurs with
the high energy creativity and style that they once brought to rap, hip-hop,
music, and the latest dance craze. Indeed, these became the medium for
the Black Reparations message to many of the youth, and ultimately contributed
to the success of the movement.
The music created by African youth still mirrors their reality, but
their reality has changed. It is no longer harsh, violent, or sexist. It
celebrates, applauds, inspires and teaches. They have their own record
labels, movie studios, radio stations, and news organs. Distribution is
no longer a problem, they own a market share of outlets and theaters, throughout
the world.
Many of the youth like to fly high but, it's the high of supersonic
jets to visit the Pyramids of Egypt and to meet with business partners
or family members in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Kenya, Ghana, France, or London.
Others prefer the pace of the ships, stopping in ports enjoying the trip,
the sights, sounds, and people along the way.
Where once Black youths resented standard English, and adults balked
at the thought of learning another language, Africans in America have become
as multi-lingual as many of their African brothers and sisters in African
countries. Blacks revel in the joy of being able to communicate with other
family members throughout the diaspora. Now the badist dude on the block
is the one who can speak the most languages. Where once we didn't understand
rap because we didn't understand rap, we may not understand it still because
it is spoken in the Fang, Yoruba, and the Twi of West Africa. Or the Amharic
of East Africa, or the Arabic of North Africa. Today's music rings with
the French, Spanish, and Portuguese of Africans once colonized in or by
these European countries.
Young Black entrepreneurs are eager to acquire the skills needed to
develop former homelands and to use their skills all over the world where
Blacks have business interests with other formerly oppressed peoples. No
longer do they attend school to get a job, they go to learn to rebuild
a nation.
Black Children: Our younger children seem a lot happier today.
Better nutrition is a part of the daily routine. Breakfast, lunch and dinner
are served at their schools. To assist young parents in learning and tasting
the benefits of better nutrition, parents who volunteer at the schools
can eat there with their children. As a result of better nutrition and
eating habits, these children are no longer on prescribed drugs that once
plagued African students throughout their early learning years.
Public schools have abandoned racist text books. New standards now
serve all the children and prepare them for a multidimensional world reflective
of all the people and cultures. There is less racism because there is less
planned ignorance. Black children attend both public and private schools.
The teachers who teach in them have been retrained to adapt to the learning
styles of African children. In some schools, parents and children attend
school together, learning along with their children, learning how to support
their children's style of learning, and assisting teachers in maintaining
an appropriate learning climate.
Despite their family's wealth, children wear uniforms to school, without
jewelry. Gone is the fear of being attacked in school, going or coming.
Classrooms are smaller, teachers love their jobs and are well-paid. Elementary
and middle school curriculums prepare the student for living a life they
love. In addition to hard core academics, other required courses include
People Skills, Conflict Resolution, Introduction to Racism and White Supremacy,
Coping with Cops 101, Parenting, Understanding your Body for Health and
Wellness, Marriage and Family Life, Basic Law, Investing, Accounting, and
Managing your Wealth, to name a few. Arts, crafts, music, drama, debates,
and speak-outs are staples of their schools and communities.
The Elderly: The elderly who needed it received generous income
support and reclaimed their time-honored place in the culture of the African
community. They could travel for free and vacation at any hotel in the
New Afrikan chain. Men and women, no matter what their color, who had dedicated
their lives to the liberation of African people or, who had spent many
years as political prisoners, were also honored with co-op retirement homes
in communities of their choice. Many, long retired from a variety of professions,
found new life in volunteering at early learning centers for infants and
children, carrying on the oral tradition of story-telling, reading, and
playing ancient games. A number became parents and mentors to youth in
their communities, inspiring them to try their profession or cheering them
on to seek a profession of their own choosing.
For those whose health failed them, their families could now afford
the space, equipment, and skilled help to allow them to care for aged or
disabled family members in their homes, if they wished too. For those who
preferred it, specially built homes and facilities with assisted living
allowed them to live independently in communities of their choice. No longer
was getting older feared, or abhorred. It was met with grace and dignity,
by a community that cared.
While pockets of poverty still persist in the African community. Its
eradication is not as daunting. Mental illness and mental retardation stemming
from the years of malnutrition and drugs that once plagued the Black community
may simply have to run its course. But families who continue to take care
of members are not alone and receive the benefits of research, product
development, and financial and emotional support in the care of such family
members. Family habilitation, stabilization, and preservation measures
developed and implemented by competent, specially trained, well-funded
community-based providers proved to be the safety net afforded all Black
families impacted by welfare reform and temporary assistance to needy families.
Individual Reparations: Individual reparations were initially
a hotly debated issue within the African community. At the time, many people
felt that people untutored in the management of large sums of money would
soon squander it. Others insisted that it was already being squandered
by those who had no right to have it in the first place. This debate, however,
was tolerated only within the African community. For it was the consensus
that the debtor (350 years past due) was in no position to speculate on
the creditors' competence or lack thereof. Whether one thought the debate
a mark of self-doubt, self-hatred, racist, elitist, uninformed, or right
on target, it became the task of the Reparations Movement organizers to
educate the African community on the options. The reparation's question
of the day was: Do you want to be king/queen for a day, a lifetime, or
generations to come? Of course, most people wanted a little taste of each.
In time, a consensus was reached around three strategies for the individual
and for groups. These included immediate, short-term, and long-term.
Immediate: Individuals were awarded the amount of lifetime taxes
they had paid the U.S. government and any amount that they could prove
that any of their deceased relatives had paid. They also received a tax
moratorium for every year of bondage of prior family members. In addition,
all businesses developed with reparations funds were exempted from taxes
on salaries and income. Black businesses in general received tax credits
and incentives once offered to attract other corporations and businesses
to inner city communities.
Short-term: Individuals were given stocks in businesses developed
in their communities. These stocks had to be held for a minimum of 10 years
to confirm the success of the business. Premiums would be paid with the
option of reinvestment. The principle would not be disturbed.
Long-term: The long-term stock options served as the 401K retirement
account for individuals, and would be paid in monthly installments after
the individual reached a retirement age voted upon by the group. Both long-term
and short-term stocks could be sold on three conditions. I) It must be
sold back to the corporation; 2) It could only be sold after the individual
reached a certain age; or 3) the individual had a terminal illness. These
options did not prevent Africans from participating in any program they
were already vested in or entitled to participate in as US citizens.
Oddly, there was much debate over wealthy Africans receiving any reparations.
For a people soon to be very wealthy, there seemed to be a voice of intolerance
for wealthy people. Just how wealthy is too wealthy? Finally, wealthy Africans
and those who declared that they did not want reparations could designate
any individual benefits to one of several Black foundations. If they did
not designate, their funds automatically went to an International Development
Fund for African Children without parents or family as a result of AIDS,
famine, war, or other disasters.
There were benefits for wealthy Africans, nevertheless. Gone, was the
general gauntlet of red tape required to purchase or develop airlines,
telecommunication systems, television stations, sports teams, stadiums
or other big ticket items that their dollars could afford. Gone was the
fear of being under-financed. Through the banking institutions, they too
had access to loans and capital for big ventures that created a different
type of job and became symbols of hope and pride for the community and
the nation.
Insurance for the Group: While community-based businesses are
owned by individuals and collectives, a number are insured (at no cost)
by insurance companies that built their foundation and fortunes insuring
Africans for the benefit of slavers, or by exploiting African communities
with high premiums and low benefits. In addition, the settlement funded
the establishment of a series of insurance companies throughout the several
States that service the health, social, and economic development and business
interest of Black communities worldwide. For the most part, however, the
Black community became self-insured.
By-Products of the Reparations Movement: Indeed, much like the
Civil Rights' Movement of the 1960's, the benefits of the Black Reparations
Movement extended far beyond the African communities. One of the by-products
of the movement was the abolishment of slavery, peonage, prison slavery,
and slave wages worldwide. Multi-national corporations that once left North
American shores in search of new slaves in Asia, Africa, and other underdeveloped
countries, were forced to pay fair, living wages and compete with the entrepreneurial
spirit that had taken hold worldwide.
The new slavery and disenfranchisement that was developing in American
prisons was effectively halted, and the death penalty was abolished.
International Reparations: The internationalizing of the Black
Reparations Movement expressed itself in many ways. It brought to the forefront,
the African and Native American Holocaust in America. It lifted up the
genocide of African and other people worldwide. Where once the Jewish Holocaust
Museum in the Nation's Capitol witnessed and gave voice only to the German
Jewish Holocaust of Europe, it now addresses the Holocaust of all humanity.
The monuments, plantations, museums and books which memorialize U.S. presidents,
their life and times, also include the untold story of enslaved Africans
whose toil, sweat, lives, and suffering built the wealth of these families
and communities.
African people and Nations reassessed their current status and historical
experience with oppressor governments and determined that their future
could not be trusted to business as usual. Each recast their grievances
within the reparations context and presented their colonizers with a Reparations
agenda.
The statistical markers for the African community are dramatically
different than most of us care to remember: One million African descendants
languished in prisons, primarily due to drug related activities and selective
policing. An additional two million had been disenfranchised and locked
into the criminal justice system on probation or patrol. The Black prison
population has been reduced by 90%.
Families were threatened by poverty, illiteracy, drugs, and violence.
These are no longer threats. Indeed, they are no longer issues except in
a general sense. The divorce rate has reversed itself. Marriages are more
commonplace and stable. Children belong to families in their communities.
AIDs had taken hold in the African community and threatened to do what
400 years of White supremacy, slavery, sharecropping, peonage, racism,
kkk gangs, police corruption, drugs and gun running, media propaganda,
psychological warfare, cointel-pro, the FBI and the CIA had failed to do.
AIDS is not the plague that it once was. Education, better health care,
individual responsibility for one's sexuality, and medical improvements
have reversed the devastations, but not before exacting a heavy toll on
Africans worldwide.
Gone is the killer stress of anger caused by racism, poverty, and preventable
disease which tilted the scales of life leading to premature death for
many Africans in America. Fifty years ago, Black life expectancy was 67,
today, it is 130 years. The leading cause of death is old age. Most have
learned to view racism as a disease of the spirit. This is easy enough
as Blacks have little exposure to those they perceive as racially afflicted.
Community/Police Control: The men in blue do not occupy and
terrorize the African communities as they once did. And there are no longer
the daily "accidental" killings of innocent men and women. Community policing
was a by-product of the reparations settlement which indited the Criminal
Justice System for racial profiling and disparate sentencing. Funds were
made available to urban communities to develop their own community policing,
security, and protection system. Community police are well trained and
culturally sensitive. Black life is now accorded the same respect as animal
life, police are only allowed the use of stun guns in or out of their communities.
Three strikes and you are out had a new meaning. If an officer made
three mistakes, he or she was removed from the service and lost all benefits.
All police, no matter what their color or where they work, are required
to understand and appreciate the cultures of all people. Racism is a cause
for removal.
Fifty years ago, the 2000 census attempted to reduce the Black population
by redefinition. Where once a drop of African blood made one black, the
census allowed a drop of any other blood to render one non-black. This
was of interest to the Black Reparations movement. The question of who
was black, or who qualified for reparations was a question often raised
by many. The movement decided to use the birth certificate and the United
States' classification of Black as defined during slavery and post-reconstruction.
Birth certificates indicating colored, Negro, and African American of parents
or grandparents were accepted. The Black Reparations leadership were confident
that those who had been passing as White were not likely to gamble the
benefits and privileges of their whiteness for what they "might" receive
under a Reparations Settlement.
Ten years later, under the banner, Black by Choice, the Black population
had a tremendous upsurge. This did not come as a ploy for economic gain,
it came as a resurgence in community pride, self-respect, self-esteem,
and the renewal or rediscovery of family ties, within and across racial
lines. The color consciousness that once plagued the African community
has been replaced with a new respect for melanin for it has been found
to be a protector against pre-mature aging. The more melanin, color, the
better one's skin is preserved. Indeed given the absence of counter agents
such as caffeine, pork, cigarettes, alcohol and other drugs -- adults,
no matter what their age, are likely to look and feel as youthful as they
did at half their age. And with the proper exercise and diet, they are
likely to be agile and living independently into their late nineties, enjoying
fully the long awaited benefits of their inheritance.
Most African families attend a week-end school that focus on the various
cultures of African people worldwide. With the possibilities offered by
DNA testing, Africans are constantly searching and researching for the
relatives left behind and those torn asunder by the ravages of White supremacy,
enslavement, and the effects. While most seem to live life fully, free
of thoughts of the past, others are haunted by the questions: Why am I
here? What is my purpose in life? How can I give meaning to the pain and
suffering of my ancestors, to those whose fruits I now enjoy? These are
rhetorical questions, the answers to which human being seek to give meaning
to life where perhaps there is no meaning, only the word. "In the beginning
was the word (Reparationsnow!) and the word was made flesh."
This working paper is always a draft. It was first presented
at the 11th Annual Reparations Conference of the National Coalition of
Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), June 21, 2000 at Howard University,
Blackburn Center, revised for presentation at the Million Family March's
Scholars Symposium on Black Families, October 13, 2000.
Having glimpsed a possible present from the future, I invite
you to join me in editing the script. The only condition is that anything
you contribute, must be what you desire. After all, the future is in our
hands. To have your ideas reflected in this paper, please write your views
and mail to Dorothy Benton Lewis at P.O. Box 1397 Rockville, Maryland 20857
or call 301-279-9235.
This paper is being used as a fund raiser for N'COBRA's International
work. Please send check in any amount you wish to contribute to N'COBRA
at the above noted address. Please make notation for international work
on the check.
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