Sixty years ago, a brave and beautiful young lady boarded a bus in Montgomery Alabama, and was told to get up and move to the back of the bus when a white man needed the seat she was sitting in. When she refused to do so, she was arrested. Her arrest sparked a movement, and a then unknown young Black minister, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped organize a boycott that broke the transportation infrastructure, and alerted racists in Alabama that Black people are a lot more powerful, intelligent and organized than they thought we were. Fifty years ago the Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts were signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson - it was then the Democrats - the party to which he belonged jumped ship, infiltrated the Republican party to make sure that none of the laws he enacted would ever bear fruition - and so for the past forty years severe laws have either been enacted or enforced on the local level to undermine what LBJ tried to accomplish as president on the national level. In many cases, the scene you are viewing now mirrors what I and many of my peers experienced Black in the day when we stood against racism and the egregious acts against Black people. We called them Sit-Ins at the time. And we proudly gathered in front of where ever we needed to be to let the racist infrastructure know that we werent going to tolerate their wholesale discrimination and murder of our people. On 12-12-14 Black people of New York City stood up by lying down and sending a clear signal that the brutality on the part of the NYPD not only has to stop, but allowing the perpetrators to go unpunished is no more acceptable now as it was then. The fact that we do not have to depend on meanstream media to tell our story is even more important - and I salute my friend Chet Whye, Jr., Darryl T. Downing, Daniel J. Watts, and others for putting this together. But more importantly, I salute the Black men and women of New York City for the everlasting, ongoing, undaunted, relentless Blackness that makes us the great people we are. The legacy of our ancestors to empower ourselves and to stand for each other is alive and well and living in us all - and we wont be denied! IM SHARING THIS WITH THE WORLD - Stay Blessed & ECLECTICALLY BLACK - Gloria gloriadulanwilson.blogspot/ECLECTICALLY BLACK NEWS
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:38:50 +0000
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