An open letter to the Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Bernice King. How can African Americans realize Martin Luther King Dream marching in the wrong direction? On this day July 7, 2013, around about 7:30 am, I was awakening from a deep sleep with a voice in my head. As I visualize in my subconscious mind to see who was talking to me. I saw a young minister name Martin Luther King telling me to get up and write a letter for him to you. His words was simple and to the point to let his daughter Bernice King know that the March for Civil Rights in America must end at the United Nations. "If there is no struggle there is no progress. . . . Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." – Frederick Douglass It is time for African American community to take it grievances of racial and human inequities to the United Nations. For far too long African Americans for the last fifty years since the passing of the Civil Rights Act have been patient, keeping the faith and empathically asking the America Government and Corporate tyrants to embrace Human Rights and an ubuntu spirit for all citizens in America. “The U.N.’s Declaration of Universal Human Rights adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1948 asserts that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” and that “all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.” “Eleanor Roosevelt’s uncompromising view of universal human rights identifies the source of such rights in events close to home, such as in our everyday interactions: Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home (…) unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.” “U.S. Reports to U.N. on Ending Racial Bias, With No Plan of Its Own” By Brentin Mock, Friday, June 14 2013 The ACLU is calling the report “a step forward,” but says there’s still much work to be done. “With its submission of this report, the Obama administration makes the critically important point of acknowledging that racial discrimination still persists in the U.S.,” said Chandra Bhatnagar, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program. “Further, the report doesn’t address the pressing need for a national plan of action to end all forms of racial discrimination, which many other countries have already created.” “In March, the US Human Rights Network along with dozens of racial justice organizations sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he develop a “National Plan of Action for Racial Justice” that would bring the nation in full compliance with its commitments under the U.N. convention. “Despite a strong civil rights legacy, race disparities linked to institutionalized and structural forms of racism continue to exist in almost every sphere of life in the United States,” reads the letter, which lists examples of present-day unresolved racial discrimination: •In the 2009-2010 school year, 74 percent of African-American students and 80 percent of Latino students attended majority minority schools, where most of their classmates are nonwhite. An outcome of the deeply segregated and racially and economically isolated American education system is severe achievement gaps between students of color and white students. •Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and Latinos are disproportionately incarcerated in the United States. Two-thirds of the two million prisoners in the United States are African-American or Latino. The disparities can be linked to improper policing practices like racial profiling. Drug policy and drug sentencing also contribute by disproportionately targeting African Americans and Latinos. •People of color and Indigenous Peoples are also more likely to live near hazardous waste facilities with nearly half of all people of color in the United States living within less than two miles of a hazardous waste facility. There’s also the recent HUD-sponsored investigation that found people of color are less likely to be shown housing units by real estate agents and landlords than white people — findings that HUD apparently isn’t prepared to resolve anytime soon, as Seth Freed Wessler and ProPublica’s Nikole Hannah-Jones recently reported on (which won the National Low Income Housing Coalition Media Award for Hannah-Jones). It should also be added that the Voting Rights Act’s Section Five, which prevents racial disenfranchisement intentional and unintentional in areas with a history of racial discrimination, and also race consideration in affirmative action policy are both in danger of being deleted from the law books by the U.S. Supreme Court. Sherrilyn A. Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who is helping defend both of those issues in the Supreme Court, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times today saying, “If there is public discomfort, it is precisely because race still does matter, because it still resonates so powerfully in American life.” colorlines/archives/2013/06/us_reports_to_un_on_ending_racial_discrimination_without_a_national_plan_for_racial_justice.html” As I write this letter to you I can feel the presence of your father Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Poinsette Clark, Harriet Tubman, Linda Brown, your mother Coretta Scott King, Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Marcus Garvey, A Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Meager Evans, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B Dubois, Gandhi, King Solomon, Booker T. Washington, and millions of our slave ancestors crying from their grave because we fail to maintain what they have created, fought and die for us to be free. As I think back to the unconceivable hardship millions of our Slave Ancestors endured on the slave ships for months not knowing what was ahead of them in an unknown land called America. The price your father and mother, Malcolm X and Betty, Medgar Wiley Evers and Myrlie, and the Jim Crow era Civil Rights leaders paid with their lives for us to have this halfhearted freedom in America makes me cry. Almost fifty years later after the signing of the Civil Rights Act, people of color finds ourselves in a worst dilemma than before the August 28, 1963 March on Washington. As I feel the hands of Harriet Tubman touching my shoulders saying to me; The 1965 Civil Rights laws were only a door opening not the arrival to our destination as free slaves seeking equality. We must elevate our minds and become critical thinkers and embrace shared sacrifices in our pursuit for equality in America. It is time for African Americans to take our grievances to the World Courts within the United Nations. Just like the trail of tears America government, Corporate Tyrants and boulé African American leadership has no empathy or a moral compass for the African American community. “The civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph once said that freedom is never given, it is won”. In closing, an excerpt from a recent public comment to Duval County Public School Board Members meeting by my mentor Edward Exson, Eras Negros has passed through in America. “Unbearable slavery even abolitionist fought and died for our freedom, the then freed Negros net wealth was one half of one percent. In 2001 blacks wealth was still at one half of one percent. Reconstruction however was short lived. In struggling separate but equal era, the NAACP and others had to fight lynch mobs and riots killing many. Former Justice Thurgood Marshall crusaded fighting for the right to vote and equal education, an A. Philip Randolph the fiercest fighter for jobs. As World War II veterans returned home they pledged to never accept the inhumanities before they left to war. As Dr. Martin Luther King came on the scene the above leaders with whites, blacks, college students, even children fighting for better conditions, enduring cruelty, pain, hardships, even death to secure freedom for the Negro. At the behest of the powers President Lyndon Johnson got Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act, and subsequent Voting Rights Act, along with the already passed Brown V Board of Education this was a new era, the most promising, yet we have squandered it. As a result of Dr. King relentless efforts for change, he was killed. After his demise a new and mostly worthless so-called leadership calling themselves African Americans, that era has now passed, we have gone from integration to immigration as the new civil rights fight, demonstrated more recently by the Supreme Court and Congress.” The time has come for new courageous leadership to step forward and save us from us. I am writing to you asking you to stand with me and other empathy leaders to change our destruction paradigm in America. Too stand for a dreamer Martin Luther King as dream makers making your father dream a reality. Sincerely, Stanley "Doc" Scott Activist for Education and Economic Empowerment Founding Member of the African American Economic Recovery Think Tank https://facebook/groups/AAERTT/ https://facebook/pages/Stanley-Doc-Scott/417685324989803 jacksonville/interact/blog/stanley_scott Inspired Living Application Wealthbuilder ilivingapp/home.asp doc3507@msn; PO Box 2672 Jacksonville, Florida 32203 404-719-7188
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