African American History from 1619 to 2010 #1 Tommy Green – Mobile Beacon City Editor I these wrote series of articles in 2009 and from talking with and seeing Black people in the media today, they still don’t have an idea what has transpired in their fore-parents’ lives, which will affect them. Therefore, I am going publish these article again, hoping more of our parents will be provided information that they pass on to their children, which will start the process of making them whole. This is the first article on the above subject, which will be a chronological list of events in the lives of African Americans since we arrived on these shores. The events have been positive, but there has also been excessive pain and suffering. I have prayed to God that this series of articles will encourage individuals with influence in the African American community (African American ministers and others) to start a process of teaching black people their history. If we know our history, it gives us a chance to keep the negative part of it from being repeated. When Ronald Reagan was running for President in the late 1970s, he went to Philadelphia, MS to campaign. Why did he go to that city? He went to Mississippi to influence other conservative voters in other parts of the country. Within the last 30 years, the language and definition of words have been altered through the media. An example, civil right organizations and individuals which had been held in high esteem have been projected as “Racial Pimps” or being on the dole for their own interest. Black people are considered racist for even mentioning being discriminated against by a white individual or a company. When a black person and a white person are competing for a job, and a black person is selected, it is considered “Reversed Discrimination.” I was happy on January 20, 2009, when an African American was confirmed as the President of the United States. Black people had been waiting for this day. This good feeling only lasted for a short spell because the cruel names had already started before Senator Barack Obama became the President. It seems like the gates of hell opened up with all of the crude language from calling the him Hitler, Stalin, Communist, Socialist, to a monkey. It didn’t stop there. There were those who questioned whether the President was really an American. The governor of Texas threatened succeeding from the union of the United States. This threat hadn’t been made since before and during the Civil War. I knew at the time that this wasn’t the great day that all God’s children would put aside their differences and come together. One incident in a country history of approximately 390 years of racism doesn’t bring about a great awakening. There have been forces struggling against black people during every push for receiving social justice. I knew that this was anomaly when President Obama was elected. An anomaly is when something happens out of the ordinary. Also, I knew this was not a post racial America. One of the problems for African Americans is continually waiting for a miracle in race relations with white Americans to come about. This is a process of power transfer, and no ethnic group in the history of the world has relinquished or shared power without a struggle, and in most instances, it involves violence. It is naivete on our part to believe so intensively in a people who have shown black people in every way that they don’t care anything about them until it is in their interest. With this information, we can start the march toward social justice and real equality. I am talking about being a force in America with combining our resources and building something for ourselves. “THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES”!
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:12:58 +0000
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