DEAR BLACK AMERICANS

 

 DEAR BLACK AMERICANS:

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After all of these years and all we have been through together, we think it’s appropriate for us to show our gratitude for all you have done for us.

We have chastised you, criticized you, punished you, and in some cases even apologized to you, but we never formally nor publicly thanked you for your never-ending allegiance and support to our cause.  This is our open letter of thanks.  We will always be in your debt to you for your labor.  You built this country and were responsible for the great wealth we still enjoy today.  Upon your backs, laden with the stripes we sometimes had to apply for disciplinary reason, you carried our nation.  We thank you for your diligence and your tenacity.  Even when we refused to allow you to even walk in our shadows, you followed close behind believing that someday we would accept you and treat you like men and women.  We publicly acknowledge Black people for raising our children, attending to our sick, and preparing our meals while we were occupied with trappings of the good life.  Even during the time when we found pleasure in your women and enjoyment in seeing your men lynched, maimed, and burned, many of you continue to watch over us and our belongings.

 

We simply cannot thank you enough.  Your bravery on the battlefield, despite being classified as three-fifths of a man, was and still is outstanding.  We often watched in awe as you went about your prescribed chores and assignments, sometimes laboring in the hot sun for 12 hours, to assist in realizing our dreams of wealth and good fortune.  Now that we control at least 90 percent of all of the resources and wealth of this nation, we have Blacks people to thank the most.  We can only think of the sacrifices you and your families made to make it all possible.  You were there when it all began, and you are still with us today, protecting us from those Black people who have the temerity to speak out against our past transgressions.  Thanks for buying our Hilfigers, Karans, Nikes, and all the other brands you so adore.  Your super-rich athletes, entertainers, intellectuals, and business persons (both legal and illegal) exchange most of their money for our cars, jewelry, homes, and clothing.  What a windfall they have provided us!  The less fortunate among you spend all they have at our neighborhood stores, enabling us to open even more stores.  Sure, they complain about us, but they never do anything to hurt us economically.  Allow us to thank you for not bogging yourself down with business of doing business with your own people.  We can take care of that for you.  You just keep doing business with us.  It’s safer that way.  Besides, everything you need, we make anyway, even Kente cloth.  You just continue to dance, sing, and distrust and hate one another.

“THANK YOU FOR NOT DOING BUSINESS WITH YOUR OWN PEOPLE.  WE CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT FOR YOU.”

Have yourself a good time, and this time we’ll take of you.  It’s the least we can do, considering all you’ve done for us.  Heck you deserve it, Black people.  For all your labor, which created our wealth, for resisting the messages of trouble making Blacks like Washington, Delany, Garvey, Bethune, Tubman, Malcolm, and Truth, for fighting and dying on our battlefields, we thank you.  And we really thank you for not reading about the many Black warriors that participated in the development of our great country.  We thank you for keeping it hidden from the younger generation.  Thank you for not bring such glorious deeds to our attention.  For allowing us to move into your neighborhoods, we will forever be grateful to you.  For your unceasing desire to be near us and for hardly ever following through on your treats due to our lack of reciprocity and equity – we thank you so much.

We also appreciate your acquiescence to our political agendas, for abdicating your own economics self-sufficiency, and for working so diligently for the economic well-being of our people.  You are real troopers.  And, even though the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments were written for you and many of your relatives died for the rights described therein, you did not resist when we changed those Black rights to civil rights and allowing virtually every other group to take advantage of them as well.  Black people, you are something else!  Your dependence on us to do the right thing is beyond our imagination, irrespective of what we do to you and the many promises we have made and broken.  But, this time we will make it right, we promise.  Trust us.  Tell you what.  You don’t need your own hotels.  You can continue to stay in ours.  You have no need for supermarkets when you can shop ours 24 hours a day.  Why should you even think about owning more banks?  You have plenty now.  And don’t waste your energies trying to break into manufacturing.  You work hard enough in our fields.  Relax.  Have a party.  We’ll sell you everything you need.  And when you die, we’ll even bury you at a discount.  How’s that for gratitude?  Finally, the best part.  You went beyond the pale and turned over your children to us for their education.  With what we have taught them, it’s likely they will continue in a mode similar to the one you followed for the past 100 years (since school desegregation.)  When Mr. Lynch walked on the banks of the James River in 1712 and said he would make us a slave for 300 years, little did he realize the truth of his prediction.  Just 13 more years and his will come to fruition.  But with two generation of your children having gone through our education system, we can look forward to at least another 50 years of prosperity.  Things could be better – it’s all because of you.  For all you have done, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Black Americans.  You’re the best friends any group of people could ever have!

 

Sincerely,

All Other Americans

 

 

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By Kashif Malik Hassan-El

 

You can see this story unfolding at this very moment, with Whoopi Goldberg and Ann Coulter on The View.  Ann Coulter is trying to re-educate Whoopi on the fact that, what was once written expressly for Blacks, White America has come along and change those amendments to be known as the civil rights in which any race can claim, because they no longer pertain to just our needs.  Whoopi what to know if she is speaking for blacks and what does she know about being black.  I guess everything that she has forgotten.   For THINKING OUT LOUD, I’m E. L. PLEASANT

 

CLOSING REMARKS:   ELIZABETH EVANS

“Human blood is heavy; he who sheds it can never escape its weight.”  From Zimbabwe

 

 

 

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