BLACK OUT MONDAY SO CALLED “BOYCOTT!!!!!!” WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR THE OTHER 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR? IS THERE ANY NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR WHITE OPPRESSORS? IS THERE ANY POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE BOTTOM LINE FOR BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES? The answers are respectfully: Not a damn thing changes. We must BOYCOTT our OPEN ENEMIES’ BUSINESSES FOREVER!!!!! Black America’s financial worth falls 17th in the world amongst other COUNTRIES!!!!!! Not other ethnic groups, other countries..... Why in the hell are we getting all excited about a one day boycott. The boycott of the 60s of Birmingham, Ala. lead by the Most Right Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth was 12 months (One Year)!!!!! Let us go back and research our struggle over the past 82 years. During this time my mother and father were born and they gave birth to my brothers and I and we have given birth to their eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. • IN 1932, one leader, J. Dalman Steele, called for a boycott of such companies, but his call was ineffective. In the spring of 1934, as more New Yorkers lost jobs because of the Depression, the Rev. John H. Johnson, vicar of the Protestant Episcopal St. Martins Church, began a Buy-Where-You-Can-Work campaign. The New York Age newspaper backed this movement; noting that 75 percent of Blumsteins sales were to blacks but that it refused to hire black clerks or cashiers, it called for a boycott of Harlems most important store. Picketing began in the second week in June. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. -- who 12 years later was to start his long career as a Congressman -- preaching to 2,000 at his Abyssinian Baptist Church, supported the boycott. So did other prominent members of the Harlem community. Arthur Schomburg, the historian, said: In years to come our children will look into our records to see if we have done our part. Do not let them find us lacking. • September 16, 1932, in his cell at Yerovda Jail near Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British governments decision to separate Indias electoral system by caste. Gandi will have a profound effect on Black American Civil Rights. Later in Ghandi’s life MLK and his wife go to India to live with Ghandi for a year. MLK adopts Ghandi’s non-violence tactics for civil disobedience. • 1932-1972 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health. Illegally studied the effects of untreated syphilis in 400 African American men. Researchers withheld treatment even when penicillin became widely available. Researchers did not tell the subjects that they were in an experiment. Most subjects who attended the Tuskegee clinic thought they were getting treatment for bad blood. During this time my mom and dad are born in the middle of protest and Black Outrage!!!! • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956 • Little Rock Nine: Desegregating Little Rock Central High School, 1957 Now my mom and dad are teenagers and seasoned Civil Righters!!!!! • Robert F. Williams and the Debate on Nonviolence, 1959-1964 {The Jim Crow system employed “terror as a means of social control,” with the most organized manifestations being the Ku Klux Klan and their collaborators in local police departments. This violence played a key role in blocking the progress of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s. Some black organizations in the South began practicing armed self-defense. The first to do so openly was the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP led by Robert F. Williams. Williams had rebuilt the chapter after its membership was terrorized out of public life by the Klan. He did so by encouraging a new, more working-class membership to arm itself thoroughly and defend against attack When Klan nightriders attacked the home of NAACP member Dr. Albert Perry in October 1957, Williams’ militia exchanged gunfire with the stunned Klansmen, who quickly retreated. The following day, the city council held an emergency session and passed an ordinance banning KKK motorcades.4]One year later, Lumbee Indians in North Carolina would have a similarly successful armed stand-off with the Klan ( known as the Battle of Hayes Pond ) which resulted in KKK leader James W. Catfish Cole being convicted of incitement to riot.} • Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina I’m conceived, maybe before one of these death marches!!! They hope the little Black Boy grows!!!!!! • Freedom Rides, 1961 • Albany Movement, 1961–62 Now my little brother is on the scene and I’m a veteran of many marches and sit-ins!!!!! • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963 We are seasoned veterans of the Movement!!!!! • St. Augustine, Florida, 1963–64 {St. Augustine, on the northeast coast of Florida was famous as the Nations Oldest City, founded by the Spanish in 1565. It became the stage for a great drama leading up to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. A local movement, led by Dr. Robert B. Hayling, a black dentist and Air Force veteran, and affiliated with the NAACP, had been picketing segregated local institutions since 1963, as a result of which Dr. Hayling and three companions, James Jackson, Clyde Jenkins, and James Hauser, were brutally beaten at a Ku Klux Klan rally in the fall of that year. Nightriders shot into black homes, and teenagers Audrey Nell Edwards, JoeAnn Anderson, Samuel White, and Willie Carl Singleton (who came to be known as The St. Augustine Four) spent six months in jail and reform school after sitting in at the local Woolworths lunch counter. It took a special action of the governor and cabinet of Florida to release them after national protests by the Pittsburgh Courier, Jackie Robinson, and others} • Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 Freedom Summer In the summer of 1964, COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) brought nearly 1,000 activists to Mississippi—most of them white college students—to join with local black activists to register voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Many of Mississippis white residents deeply resented the outsiders and attempts to change their society. State and local governments, police, the White Citizens Council and the Ku Klux Klan used arrests, beatings, arson, murder, spying, firing, evictions, and other forms of intimidation and harassment to oppose the project and prevent blacks from registering to vote or achieving social equality. On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared. James Chaney, a young black Mississippian and plasterers apprentice; and two Jewish activists, Andrew Goodman, a Queens College anthropology student; and Michael Schwerner, a CORE organizer from Manhattans Lower East Side, were found weeks later, murdered by conspirators who turned out to be local members of the Klan, some of them members of the Neshoba County sheriffs department. This outraged the public, leading the U.S. Justice Department along with the FBI (the latter which had previously avoided dealing with the issue of segregation and persecution of blacks) to take action. The outrage over these murders helped lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. • Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama • Black Power Movement, which lasted from about 1966 to 1975 • 1980 thu 1990’s: Yusef Hawkins, Tawana Brawley, Eleanor Bumpers, Michael Stewart, December 12th Movement, The Days of OUTRAGE, Stop The Killing Tour, The Million Man March, The Million Women March, The Million Families March and everything in between!!!!! By this time I’ve have marched up and down Harlem, New York City, New York State and South Carolina(my mom’s home state) By now I’m exhausted; arent you???? {How Long? Not Long?} Was the battle cry!!!! They lied!!!!! Let me stop here, if you notice there was a lull in major protest events between 1932 to the early 1950’s. During this time we had great economic growth because of Jim Crow we had to do for self and kind. We gave up Hotel Chains, Sports Leagues (Baseball, Football, and Basketball), Dominant Collegiate Athlete Programs, Restaurant Chains and all those Black Businesses that service our community to sit next to white folks on the toilet. Meanwhile we flushed our economic freedom down the toilet for temporary promises to permanent problems that still exist today. Police brutality, underfunded school systems, over taxation without proper representation and all the isms that were abundantly present in 1932 are still here and have grown more powerful and blatant. Our voting and civil rights are voted on every four years in Congress. We, Blacks and Latino Folks are one bad vote away from being returned to slavery. When will we come to the harsh reality that this white man will never give us Freedom, Justice and Equality? We must separate or die. Join me along with countless others in a new awareness to an old problem. Help Minister Farrakhan and the Nation Of Islam help us free ourselves from this relentless oppressor. Support Muhammad’s Economic Blueprint. My name is Forrest Muhammad, The Pissed Off Black Man, and I approve this message, SISSY!!!!!! #LONGLIVETHESPIRITOFTHEMILLIONMARCH #HANDSOFFFARRAKHAN #FTP
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