March 6, 2023 • 44 mins
Your Host: Shyra DeJuan is challenging you to be open to learn how African Americans have contributed to the United States Economy. Also, follow a detailed timeline of events that were removed and erased from American History. This episode dives deep into how government agencies such as the FBI and CIA had an impact on the Civil Rights Movement and other political organizations over the years. Just because people have criminalized & dehumanized a whole race of people does not make it the reality. After listening, you may be forced to ask yourself the following driving questions.…Why isn't slavery discussed as capitalism in History Lessons? Who does America really belong to? Who are the real terrorists in America? How is racism justified? Can we pretend the oppression of African American people is not real? What type of person is really considered a true American Patriot?
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All smiles champions.
Welcome to mind, elevationhealth and wealth.
I am your host, Syrah, Dhawan,and educator, emotional healer
and entrepreneur.
For the month of February year,2023.
We were celebrating blackhistory culture and how we can
heal worldviews.
Uh, by being an ally.
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By understanding, and byincreasing our knowledge of
blackness, Blackish and blackexcellence.
We will also learn how acrossall cultures.
We are all the same conductdifferent since February only
has 28 days.
I'm doing the final blackhistory month episode on March
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5th, 2023.
I took a small break and I'mglad to be back.
I missed my loyal listeningchampions.
This session, we will explore.
African-Americans contributionsto America's economic wealth.
Session 12 contributions toAmerica's economic wealth.
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Listen and listen wellchampions, whether you have
faith in God, faith in theuniverse or faith in self, it is
important for you to know thetrue history of how the United
States of America has benefitedfrom the free labor of Africans
sold into slavery.
Human trafficking.
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I will start by definingspecific terms that will be used
during this session forclarification.
Definition.
Abolitionists.
During civil war era.
A person who advocated andsupported, ending and abolishing
slavery in the United States.
An abolitionist.
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Definition of contraband.
During the civil war era andenslaved black person who
escaped to freedom.
Which was considered illegal atthe time.
And brought to freedom afterpassing the union lines and the
union lines.
Where the free states.
Contraband slaves.
Definition of capitalism.
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An economic system of wealth.
By private individuals,corporations or state owned
means of wealth.
Capitalism.
Definition of economics.
Financially the science thatdeals with the production
distribution and consumption ofgoods and services.
Or the material welfare ofhumankind.
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Economics.
The definition of reparations.
Reparations are compensation andmoney, material or labor payable
to make amends for the wrong orinjury done to a people or a
country.
Reparations.
The definition of oppression.
The exercise of authority orpower in a burdensome cruel or
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unjust manner.
An act of unjust restraints, thefeeling of being heavily
burdened mentally or physicallyby negative conditions.
Oh, oppression.
The definition of an ally.
An ally is to unite with, toassociate or connect by some
form of mutual relationship orfriendship.
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Uh, person, group or nation thatare associated with another
group or nation for a commoncause or purpose.
An ally or allies.
Now that we have reviewed thoseterms, let's begin.
Contributions to America'swealth due to economics of
slavery in the United States.
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400 years of.
Free labor and the United Stateswith the major crops.
Growing cotton.
Tobacco.
And sugar cane.
Slave grown cotton provided overhalf of all us export earnings
by 1840.
The Southern part of the UnitedStates group, 70% of the world's
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textile industry states, such asAlabama, South Carolina,
Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas.
Growing all this cotton lit tomanufacturing of the cotton,
which was being established inthe Northern states where
railroads were being constructedby contraband slaves.
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Then in the south, the chaingang prisoners were forced into
free labor building therailroads as prison inmates.
The term chain gang is the actof chaining prison inmates
together and forcing them to doextremely hard physical labor,
like.
Building roads, railroads,buildings, and clearing land as
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punishment.
If you ever watched the comedymovie called life, starring
Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence,Bernie Mac, and Bokeem Woodbine.
If you haven't washed it, I'llgive you small details.
Two men were accused of crimeand sentenced to life in prison.
Which was Eddie Murphy andMartin Lawrence.
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While serving their time inprison, they were forced to work
on a chain gang for punishment.
Although the movie is a funnymovie and rest in peace to
Bernie Mac.
He's one of my favoritecomedians.
Who play the hilarious role inthat movie?
The truth behind the reality ofthe movie is not funny.
Black men in the past werearrested for escaping freedom or
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arrested falsely accused ofbogus crimes.
Like.
Looking a white man in the eyeor speaking to a white woman,
which forced them into prisonsand chain gangs for free labor
to build the United Statesrailways buildings, homes,
monuments.
All of which led to the northand south feuding over the
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abolishment of slavery.
The emancipation proclamationwas signed and in effect in
1863.
The American civil war wasfought and the union army won
and the Confederate army lostthe civil war in 1865.
Let's keep in mind that blackAmericans were forced to assist
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their masters of the Confederatearmy.
When you see those Confederateflags, Keep in mind the
Confederates were the ones whowanted to keep.
Black people, African peopleenslaved.
For financial gain althoughthere were claims that the
Confederate army did not allowblack soldiers.
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There are unedited photographsthat proven fact there were
black soldiers fighting for theConfederate army.
In fact, black American soldiersserved in the civil war.
World war one.
World war II and the Vietnamwar.
Fighting bravely and boldly onthe front lines to uphold the
freedom of the United States ofAmerica.
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Only to be discharged from themilitary and be beaten and
jailed.
By the United States police.
An example of this would be Mr.
Isaac Woodard.
Was a black world war II veteranwho was beaten by police and
blinded by the beading.
Only two hours after beinghonorably.
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Discharge from the United Statesmilitary in 1946.
Even the contributions AfricanAmericans made to the United
States.
Military was not enough to betreated as a human in America.
We have discussed how thecontribution of over 400 years
of free labor.
I helped to build the UnitedStates economy and wealth.
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We have discussed how thecontribution of black American
war veterans.
Uh, serving in the United Statesmilitary have helped the United
States in more ways than one.
So we now know the truth aboutthe foundation of the United
States.
However, we can not forget thatAmerica.
Was actually stolen from thenative Americans back in 1492,
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when Christopher Columbus sailedthe ocean blue.
Hopefully you all know about thestory of the genocide and mass
murder of the native Americans,the indigenous people on their
own land right here in America,which was then called the new
world.
Rest peacefully to the neighborAmerican souls that were lost.
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I know this discussion aboutblack Americans contributions
does not add up to the UnitedStates history that you learn in
school.
There was a complete eraser ofthe major contributions and the
benefits that the ancestors ofblack Americans provided for the
United States.
Completely erased.
Non-existent.
We were only taught aboutenslaved black Americans, poor
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black Americans, criminalized,black Americans, lazy black
Americans And the land of thefree home of the brave never.
The contributions made by theblack Americans.
Black Americans were all freed.
Finally on June 19th.
1865.
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This date is now a holiday insome states called Juneteenth.
Freed black Americans werephysically free.
But not financially, mentallyand emotionally free.
Black Americans were never trulygiven the opportunity to build
and create wealth in their owncommunities after their freedom.
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Some will argue.
Yes.
They were given lead.
They were able to build theirown communities and schools.
Black Americans were never given40 acres and a mule that was
promised to them after freedomfrom the United States
government.
Uh, black Americans neverreceived reparations for payment
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of the physical labor orphysical abuse during slavery.
The United States governmentactually did pay reparations to
the Japanese Americans who wereinterned during world war two,
but did not pay reparations toblack people for the enslavement
of their ancestors or for theirparticipation in any war.
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In fact.
We will now discuss some of theresilient black communities.
The civil rights, movement andpolitical parties that were
established and thrived between1863 and up until 1970s.
You are probably thinking what.
Where are these politicalparties and community that now.
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You're about to have a quickhistory lesson.
I can only discuss a few that Ihave researched on.
However, there were othercommunities that thrived as
well.
There were other communitiesthat were destroyed as well, but
let's start this timelinejourney so that you can
understand.
The oppression.
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July 13th, 1863.
New York city draft massacre.
A whole week of violence.
That was an insurrection.
Yes.
An insurrection similar to theinsurrection that we saw Donald
Trump evoke on the United StatesCapitol building.
Back in 2021.
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Two years ago.
When recruitment started for thearmy.
A mob of white, new Yorkers,March through the city, they
went to attack and murderAfrican-Americans they set the
city's African-American orphanasylum on fire.
They shot burned and hanged.
African-Americans.
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Many were thrown into rivers todrown.
Over 400 people were killed inthis massacre.
2 years later.
An 1865 Freedmen's town.
Houston, Texas.
This was considered the fourthward of Houston, Texas.
You had many businesses likerestaurants and jazz clubs,
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homes were built.
However, the city denied andprevented African Americans
access.
To city services and createdrules to prevent them from
getting jobs.
Then Houston city planningcommission decided they wanted
to expand downtown Houston andpushed the African-Americans out
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of the community.
There was a housing projectcreated called Sam fully bay
courts and Freedmen's town.
But after world war II, thesample.
Lee bay courts community wasgiven to the white military
families only.
The rest of Freedmen's town,Texas was lost to the
development of downtown Houston.
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Later on in 1985, it wasdesignated a registered
historical site.
It doesn't change the fact thatthe land was given and then
easily taken away.
Eight years later, April 13th,1873.
On an Easter Sunday in Colfax,Louisiana.
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When African-American men backthen were part of the Republican
party.
And the Republican governor wonthe vote and gain control of
white Democrats.
There were over 2,400 blackRepublican voters.
And approximately.
2,200 white democratic voters.
The white Democrats out of angercreated a white militia and
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challenged the mostly blackmilitia under the governor.
On this Easter Sunday in 18 73,300 armed white men and white
supremacists organizationskilled approximately.
150 African Americans.
Some of the white men wereconvicted.
However, they were released whenthe United States Supreme court
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in United States vs Cruickshankruled, the enforcement act was
unconstitutional.
No one was ever arrested by thestate of Louisiana or local
officials.
25 years later.
November the 10th, 1898 inWilmington, North Carolina.
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There was an integrated town.
Three black Americans were onthe city council.
In the city of Wilmington.
Black people worked as firemenand policemen and magistrates.
African-Americans maintain powerof Wilmington, North Carolina
city government.
With anger, 800 white citizenswent to the county courthouse
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and produced.
What they called the whitedeclaration of independence.
In this declaration, it statedwe, the undersigned citizens
here by declared that we will nolonger be ruled at will never
again be ruled by men of Africanorigin.
The next day.
A mob of 2000 men proceeded withan insurrection.
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Once again.
Much like the insurrection thatwe saw Donald Trump, evoke on
the United States Capitolbuilding January of 2021.
History, continuing to repeatitself.
Black leaders were put in jailand some were sent out of town.
Thriving black neighborhoodswere burned down.
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In Wilmington.
The government was overthrown.
Thousands of black citizensfled.
In 1900.
The North Carolina legislatorstripped African-Americans of
the vote.
Using Jim Crow laws.
This was what started foldersuppression.
These massacres were designed toprevent black Americans from
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being in the United Statesgovernment, prevent them from
owning land.
Prevent them from economicadvancement.
Prevent them from education,freedom of press, religion and
labor rights.
These were massacres inflictedon black Americans to maintain
white supremacy.
And the United States back in1898.
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Eight years later.
We finally make it to the 19hundreds.
African-Americans are stilltrying to prosper politically
and economically.
September 24th, 1906, Atlanta,Georgia.
Blacks were once again, becominginvolved in the political field,
black Americans wereestablishing businesses,
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creating social networks andbuilding up the black community
in Georgia.
They were called the blackelite.
They had successfully acquiredwealth, education and prestige.
They even consider themselves asblack and leads to be above the
actual black working class.
Many whites were uncomfortablewith the black elites, the
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whites blame, the black workingclass for rising crime rates and
blame them for sexual violenceagainst white women.
White supremacist organizations.
We're finding ways to take downthe black elites and the black
working class.
During reconstruction of 1867and 1876.
Black men gained the right tovote.
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The 1906 governor believed inthe fear of black upper-class.
They believe that black shitstay in their place, which means
blacks should always be inferiorto whites.
There should never be blackupper-class as usual false
accusation was made in thenewspaper.
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Of course, the media back thenwas the newspaper.
The accusation was of a blackman assaulting a white woman.
This was never a proven factthat the assault ever happened.
However, thousands of white menand mobs went through the black
established neighborhoods inGeorgia central business
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district attacking black ownedbusinesses, smashing the windows
of the well-known barbershop,killing the business owners,
assaulting black women.
The white polies armed withrifles protected the white
properties while they allowwhite mobs to destroy and invade
black neighborhoods over 100black Americans were killed
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during this Georgia massacre in1906.
13 years later.
Other communities are stilltrying to survive and thrive in
America.
September 20th, 19, 19.
And Elaine Arkansas.
The Elaine Arkansas massacre ofthe sharecroppers.
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For those of you that don't knowthe sharecropper was created
after slavery as a job title forblack Americans that were still
working on the land, tending tocrops.
For low wages or sometimes justto pay their rent, to stay on
the land.
Because there were not jobsavailable to purchase their own
property.
A group of sharecroppers met ina small church in Elaine,
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Arkansas.
They were upset about their lowwages.
So they hired a lawyer to fightfor the right to be paid fairly.
Their plans were to join theprogressive farmers and
household union of America.
It was a union.
The white land owners backthere.
We're similar to predatorylenders in the world today, they
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allow the sharecroppers tocreate high interest debt,
knowing they would never makeenough money to pay off the
debt.
So white farm owners knew thiswould keep the sharecroppers
basically working for free.
Local white men and landownersfound out about the union
meeting at the church that theblack Americans have made with
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this lawyer.
And they fired shots into thesmall church.
A white man was shot during thegunfire and troops were sent
out.
The governor, the United Statesgovernment, the governor called
for soldiers and order thesoldiers to shoot, to kill any
Negro that refuse to surrenderimmediately.
They killed at least 200African-Americans or more.
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They kill men, women, andchildren.
This was also a time period whenblack soldiers were returning
back home from world war.
Now many whites believed theseblack war veterans were a
threat.
Keep that in mind.
Two years later.
Traveling towards the west ofthe United States, the massacre.
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That is the most known.
And most televised in recentnews media.
May 31st, 1921.
Tulsa, Oklahoma black wallstreet massacre.
And the beautiful, wellestablished and thriving.
Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa,Oklahoma.
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We just learned about how blacksoldiers were considered a
threat coming back from worldwar one.
Over in Elaine Arkansas.
Well, And Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This area was referred to asblack wall street.
This community had black ownedbanks.
Black owned hotel, which wouldprobably be like Hilton hotels.
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If it hadn't been bombed blackowned cafes, clothing stores,
movie theaters.
A remarkable school system.
They all had indoor plumbing intheir homes.
It was all around.
Black upper class.
I have to mention that thefounder of black wall street was
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a black man from Arkansas.
Named oh, w girly.
He moved to Tulsa and purchased40 acres of land and sold
different plots to otherAfrican-Americans.
He did this to allow blackAmericans to escape, the harsh
oppression of the south.
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The black dollar onlycirculated.
Within this black community andremained in the Greenwood
Oklahoma district.
Six black families flew andowned their own planes.
A white woman claimed to beassaulted by young black
elevator attendant.
And it calls white mobs to killover 300 people, a hundred were
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injured and the United Statesgovernment bombed the city.
35 city blocks went up intoflames.
The land in the Greenwooddistrict was never recovered by
its original owners.
Recently in 2021, they foundmass graves of bodies that were
buried.
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No reparations were given to thesurvivors.
I decided to take a personalvacation to go visit Greenwood
district of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And all we found and supported ablack owned coffee shop near the
monument where they wereconstructed for the hundredth
year anniversary.
And I also found a supported ablack owned bookstore.
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Other than that.
The city is just a tourist site.
Once again, no reparations forthe families, even though it was
the United States governmentthat bombed their town.
Even though there are survivingrelatives of those who lost
their land during the bombingand massacre.
No reparations for thosefamilies at this time.
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Two years after Tulsa.
We make our way back to thesouth.
This time, January 5th, 1923.
In Rosewood, Florida.
Another black community doingpretty well in the south was
destroyed due to.
A false accusation by a youngmarried white woman.
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Back then.
The newspaper media wouldportray black men in a negative
way.
They would make comments thatblack men were out to rape their
white women.
It made it easy for a whitewoman to say she was harmed or
threatened by a black man.
The same thing happened to youngimmaterial later in Mississippi,
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back in 1955.
Rest in peace to the innocentyoung man that was terrorized
and murdered by a white mob.
However and Rosewood, Florida.
A white lady claim.
She was assaulted by a black manwho escaped a prison chain gang.
Even though there was noevidence that any chain gang
member had escaped.
White men terrorize rosewoodsblack residents, the white mob
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fired into one of the homes ofblack resident and the black man
fire back in self-defense.
The black residents fought back.
Then 200 to 300 white men cameand attacked and killed
approximately 40 or more blackmen, women and children on site
burning the whole town ofRosewood to the ground.
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Many of the black residents fledto Gainesville, Florida, and
never returned back to the land.
They rightfully owned.
Once again, land and propertylost with no reparations.
When does the terrorism stop?
Many other communities throughthe years were burned,
destroyed.
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Some even flooded out by whitemobs and the United States
government.
31 years later in 1954, thecivil rights movement of
nonviolent resistance, civildisobedience campaigns, and
peaceful protests.
Started.
The United States, governmentbranch, FBI, federal bureau of
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investigation.
I worked hard to destroy themovement.
After the non-violent civilrights movement started in 1954
in 1956.
The federal bureau ofinvestigation started its
counter intelligence programcalled COINTELPRO.
Where the government illegallyconducted culvert projects
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created to illegally installsurveillance, wiretaps, and
disrupt political organizationsdesigned to protect.
And disrupt politicalorganizations designed to
protect black AmericansCOINTELPRO with threatened the
lives of civil rights activistsin order to stop the political
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movement for human rights.
Eventually the movement endedand ended with the assassination
Dr.
Martin Luther king Jr.
In 1968.
October 15th, 1966, the blackPanther party for self-defense
was founded as the mostinfluential militant black power
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organization.
Organized by Huey Newton.
Bobby seal and Fred Hampton.
These young black men werepolitical activists, creating
the black Panther party as apolitical party.
They were disappointed with thecivil rights movement efforts to
protect blacks in the south.
There were infuriated by thehistory of oppression,
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terrorism, and violence bypolice and the us government.
The black Panthers knew thehistory of all those massacres
we just discussed earlier inthis podcast.
They knew of the innocent men,women, and children being
murdered.
Huey Newton.
In his famous picture, he sitsin a throne chair wearing a
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black Baret and a black leatherjacket.
He is holding a rifle in hisright hand.
And a spear in his left hand,the bottom of the photo reads
his words.
The racist dog policemen mustwithdraw immediately from our
communities, cease their wantingmurder and brutality and torture
of black people, or face thewrath of the armed people.
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This original photo.
Isn't a collection at theSmithsonian national museum of
African-American history andculture.
The black Panther partychallenged the police and
protected black citizens frompolice brutality.
The black Panther parties,community service programs were
called survival programs thatprovided food, clothing,
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transportation, afterschoolprograms.
Before Fred Hampton.
He was assassinated.
He was in the process ofcreating a hospital, just like
the civil rights movement.
The United States, governmentbranch, FBI, federal bureau of
investigation, COINTELPRO,infiltrated, and ended the black
Panther party.
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By blackmailing, a black Pantherinformant use to strategically
assassinate Fred Hampton.
The movie called Judas and theblack Messiah is a great film
created to show the bravery andresilience of the young black
men in the movement and howCOINTELPRO was able to
successfully destroy thepolitical organization.
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Later members of the blackPanther party worked with the
underground black liberationarmy and underground white
organization.
A group of white allies for themovement called.
The weather underground.
Weather underground was a farleft Millicent organization
started in 1969 by some youngwhite college kids, including a
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white woman leader and ally forblack liberation.
By the name of Bernadine Dohrn.
This white group was violent andactually bombed us.
Government offices stories toldby the child of Bernadine Dorn
admits that the weatherunderground helped Assata Shakur
escape from her life sentence inprison.
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Assata Shakur was our favoriterapper rest in peace, Tupac, HSA
cores.
It was Tupac's aunt andgodmother.
Tupac Shakur wrote about hisaunt Assata Shakur on his 1991
track called words of wisdom.
Assata Shakur was a politicalactivist.
She left the black Panther partyto go underground with a black
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liberation army.
They successfully helped herescape from prison.
And then assisted her escape tofreedom safely to Cuba.
These organizations and leaderswere fighting for civil rights
in all forms to protectAfrican-Americans from white
terrorist police brutality andthe corruption of the United
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States government.
Trying to help build thrivingcommunities without the threat
of more massacres and terroristattacks from white mobs.
But then we have what I wouldcall the strategic silent
massacre to black communities.
Some may call it the war ondrugs.
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1968 United States, presidentLyndon, B Johnson.
Decided the government shouldfocus efforts on illegal drug
use 1971, president Nixondeclared a war on drugs, 1970s,
the crack epidemic when thegovernment agency C I a central
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intelligence unit flew incocaine to Los Angeles,
California.
Later to be diluted into crackcocaine, which was distributed
to the black community.
The agenda was created to pushcrack cocaine into the black
communities, which created drugdealers, gang wars, and crack
addiction and crack babies.
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You can fact check by readingreviews from the justice
department's investigation.
The CIA has always experimentedwith the effects of drugs, not
only by pushing into the blackcommunities and neighborhoods in
Los Angeles, but the CIA alsoconfessed to MK ultra drug
experiments on militarypersonnel and prisoners.
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In 1950s, the CIA is agovernment agency that would
test drugs to control humanbehavior.
So the CIA already knew thenegative psychological effects
of crack cocaine.
They knew how crack cocainecould be used.
Used to destroy generations ofblack Americans and black
communities.
This allow the government tocreate laws, to give long prison
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sentences for crack possession,the affordable black community
drug created.
Black on black crime laws, gangaffiliation laws.
Once again, to enslave andprison and oppress the black
community.
Long prison sentences formarijuana possession and to
marijuana drug dealers.
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Now.
Marijuana is sold legally, butcapitalize by white
organizations and dispensarydealers, majority white legal
marijuana dispensary dealerswere allowed to add a hundred
billion to the economy in 21states.
However, there are currentlyblack men and women in prison
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right now, still serving longprison terms for selling
marijuana during thegovernment's war on drugs.
Hey, you.
The champion for life changes.
I'm challenged.
You knew to be open tounderstanding.
That in a world of economics andwealth in the United States of
America, we have learned howwhite supremacists in the United
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States of America systematicallyused African-Americans to build
a wealthy economy and continueto strategically destroy
destruct abuse, and oppress theAfrican-American people
policing, which originallystarted during slavery as a
police could capture torture andhang black slaves.
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If they attempted to escape tofreedom.
Um, the FBI CIA COINTELPRO caninfiltrate and destroy any
organization designed by blackAmericans or allies for black
Americans to fight for civilrights or to protect black
communities from the terrorismof white supremacist groups.
Refuse to pay reparations forthe injuries, loss, and
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wrongdoings to African-Americanpeople.
Even though the maincontributors to the U S economy
and 17 hundreds and 18 hundredswere slave labor producing.
Consumer goods that were thebasis of world trade, including
coffee, cotton, run, sugar,tobacco key word.
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Slavery played a critical rolein the economic development of
the United States of America.
Slavery free laborers forpolitical correctness,
indentured servants, humancontraband.
When escaping to freedom.
These were people originally ofAfrican origin.
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Until they were forced to breedand be born on American soil.
And we now call them.
African Americans or blackAmericans.
The main contributors to the U Seconomy in 18, 15 to 1850 was
the industrial revolution andthe railroads, which were built
by African-Americans, whichhelped also create national
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transportation networks that arestill functional and being used
right now today in the UnitedStates.
African-Americans arecontributors to the U S economy
and creating inventions scienceand health industry,
professional sports music,industry, fashion, industry tech
industry.
The resilient and empoweringman.
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Mr.
O w girly.
Took his wealth.
And purchase 40 acres of land sothat other black people could
afford to purchase and build asuccessful wealthy community
back in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mr.
Girly could have chosen to usehis own wealth to buy a mansion
in Beverly Hills.
He used his wealth to helpsupport and build a successful
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community that was laterdestroyed by white terrorist.
The mindset in the early 19hundreds, black Americans had a
mindset of black empowerment anddesire to prosper together with
love.
Building an uplifting their owncommunities.
Imagine if all the currentlywealthy black Americans use
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their wealth to buy land.
Massacres and oppression thatstolen from the
African-Americans thatrightfully owned and operated
businesses and built homes.
As been the years of oppressionthat produce the mindset Kanye
west speaks of when he quotes,they make us hate ourselves.
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And love their wealth.
The national football league,peaceful protest of Colin
Kaepernick.
Colin took a knee during thenational Anthem to protest
against police brutality.
the NFL blackballed him andbasically implying the black
American football players juststay in their place, stay on
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that field and play the game.
Does that sound familiar to whatwe heard in the Atlanta, Georgia
massacre?
There was a complete eraser ofthe major contributions of
African-Americans in sports andathletics.
Eraser of major inventions ofAfrican-Americans.
Major medical breakthroughs byAfrican-Americans.
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Eraser.
African American military.
He rose.
Eraser of African-Americans inscience.
A ratio of African Americansresilience.
Each week.
I promote a book in Arthur'sthat have impacted my life or
help me heal by increasing myknowledge and awareness of
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experiences outside of my own.
I discussed briefly about ColinKaepernick's peaceful protest
against police brutality and howthe white owned NFL blackball
him.
We know black athletescontributes so much into the
entertainment world of sportsand create billions for white
team owners.
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Check out the true history ofhow black American athletes were
dominating the world of sports,but quickly refused rights to
ownership of professional teamsin America.
If you love sports and you wantto dive deeper into the history
of race politics and the truehistory of American sports.
One of my favorite books byWilliam C Rhoden.
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$40 million slaves.
It's a great book.
If you want to dive deeper intoyour research about the free
labor slaves in America.
The book slavery's capitalism, anew history of America's
economic development.
Bye.
Then Bechard.
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There's also a book.
The American slave coast, ahistory of the slave breeding
industry.
By Ned and constant sublet.
Those are the books that I'mworking, man, for you to just do
your own research, check yourown facts.
We know that was so much historyin the slave trade.
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We know Africa played a part inthe slave trade.
But we cannot forget andremember all of the
contributions.
That African Americans and blackAmericans made.
Being bred.
Raped.
Physically abused.
While working.
Extremely hard.
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In those fields.
To create an economy of wealthfor the United States of
America.
Champions, don't forget to checkand click on the links in my
podcast notes for the books topurchase the books.
Don't forget to click on thedonate link to donate to this
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all You are now a champion forhealing and change.
I was not able to covereverything in the session.
So here are some quick recaps.
See black Americans as nationbuilders and economy increasers
instead of animalistic thugs andcriminals, just because people
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have criminalized in thehumanized, a whole race of
people does not mean it is thereality.
After listening, ask yourselfthese questions.
Who does America really belongto?
Who are the real terrorist inAmerica?
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How do you justify racism?
How can we pretend thatoppression of African American
people is not real?
What type of person.
Is really considered a trueAmerican Patriot.
If you ever thought that peopleof color are lazy.
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Won't work violent.
Poor by choice.
Remember the sacrifice of theenslaved people and the free
labor used to build the economicwealth of the United States.
Although there are other races.
That are not white, but they aresteel anti-black American.
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They tend to not know or forgetthat black Americans built the
United States with free laborand were born and raised on
American soil.
Those are just some recaps thatI want you to think about and
consider.
If you decide to be an ally forthe black American community, or
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if you are black in America.
And you've been brainwashed orwhitewash to believe that.
Your fellow black Americans arejust lazy.
And, you don't want to admit thefact that a whole race of people
have been oppressed in America.
I have to admit that I am notperfect.
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And there were times in my lifeas a black American woman.
That I wouldn't have thoughtthat oppression was a real
thing.
I thought that a lot of thingsthat happened to the black
community were because of.
The choices that were made inthe black community.
I was not aware and open tothings that were being
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purposefully done to ourmovements.
Purposely pushed into ourneighborhoods.
How the education system.
Still is designed.
Too.
Allow black and brown childrento fail.
As an educator.
That is a very hard pill for meto swallow it.
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And I can only do my part bycontinue to educate.
And remind.
All people of color, have theirworth.
And all my students, black andbrown.
All races of my students thatyou're valuable.
And you're an asset to theUnited States of America.
If you're here.
Regardless to what your race isand that you should treat all
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people.
With dignity.
And respect.
We all have to be allies foreach other in the world.
Where we are still faced.
With white terrorism.
If you are an ally for the blackcommunity, understand the
contributions of all races inthe United States and the whole
world.
We all benefit from theknowledge of historical facts.
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We must exude the same peace,comfort, and love.
Please continue to celebrateblack history with an open
heart.
Elevate your mind.
Be open to health and wealth.
Trust the healing process,sometimes healing hurts, but
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when completely healed youbecome a stronger.
Wiser and amazing human.
That was heavy.
Let's relax and breathe.
Breathe in love.
Breathe out.
Love.
Breathe in peace.
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Breathe in love.
Share love.
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See you next self care sunday
All smiles champions.
Welcome to mind, elevationhealth and wealth.
I am your host, Syrah, Dhawan,and educator, emotional healer
and entrepreneur.
For the month of February year,2023.
We were celebrating blackhistory culture and how we can
heal worldviews.
Uh, by being an ally.
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By understanding, and byincreasing our knowledge of
blackness, Blackish and blackexcellence.
We will also learn how acrossall cultures.
We are all the same conductdifferent since February only
has 28 days.
I'm doing the final blackhistory month episode on March
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5th, 2023.
I took a small break and I'mglad to be back.
I missed my loyal listeningchampions.
This session, we will explore.
African-Americans contributionsto America's economic wealth.
Session 12 contributions toAmerica's economic wealth.
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Listen and listen wellchampions, whether you have
faith in God, faith in theuniverse or faith in self, it is
important for you to know thetrue history of how the United
States of America has benefitedfrom the free labor of Africans
sold into slavery.
Human trafficking.
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I will start by definingspecific terms that will be used
during this session forclarification.
Definition.
Abolitionists.
During civil war era.
A person who advocated andsupported, ending and abolishing
slavery in the United States.
An abolitionist.
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Definition of contraband.
During the civil war era andenslaved black person who
escaped to freedom.
Which was considered illegal atthe time.
And brought to freedom afterpassing the union lines and the
union lines.
Where the free states.
Contraband slaves.
Definition of capitalism.
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An economic system of wealth.
By private individuals,corporations or state owned
means of wealth.
Capitalism.
Definition of economics.
Financially the science thatdeals with the production
distribution and consumption ofgoods and services.
Or the material welfare ofhumankind.
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Economics.
The definition of reparations.
Reparations are compensation andmoney, material or labor payable
to make amends for the wrong orinjury done to a people or a
country.
Reparations.
The definition of oppression.
The exercise of authority orpower in a burdensome cruel or
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unjust manner.
An act of unjust restraints, thefeeling of being heavily
burdened mentally or physicallyby negative conditions.
Oh, oppression.
The definition of an ally.
An ally is to unite with, toassociate or connect by some
form of mutual relationship orfriendship.
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Uh, person, group or nation thatare associated with another
group or nation for a commoncause or purpose.
An ally or allies.
Now that we have reviewed thoseterms, let's begin.
Contributions to America'swealth due to economics of
slavery in the United States.
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400 years of.
Free labor and the United Stateswith the major crops.
Growing cotton.
Tobacco.
And sugar cane.
Slave grown cotton provided overhalf of all us export earnings
by 1840.
The Southern part of the UnitedStates group, 70% of the world's
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textile industry states, such asAlabama, South Carolina,
Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas.
Growing all this cotton lit tomanufacturing of the cotton,
which was being established inthe Northern states where
railroads were being constructedby contraband slaves.
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Then in the south, the chaingang prisoners were forced into
free labor building therailroads as prison inmates.
The term chain gang is the actof chaining prison inmates
together and forcing them to doextremely hard physical labor,
like.
Building roads, railroads,buildings, and clearing land as
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punishment.
If you ever watched the comedymovie called life, starring
Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence,Bernie Mac, and Bokeem Woodbine.
If you haven't washed it, I'llgive you small details.
Two men were accused of crimeand sentenced to life in prison.
Which was Eddie Murphy andMartin Lawrence.
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While serving their time inprison, they were forced to work
on a chain gang for punishment.
Although the movie is a funnymovie and rest in peace to
Bernie Mac.
He's one of my favoritecomedians.
Who play the hilarious role inthat movie?
The truth behind the reality ofthe movie is not funny.
Black men in the past werearrested for escaping freedom or
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arrested falsely accused ofbogus crimes.
Like.
Looking a white man in the eyeor speaking to a white woman,
which forced them into prisonsand chain gangs for free labor
to build the United Statesrailways buildings, homes,
monuments.
All of which led to the northand south feuding over the
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abolishment of slavery.
The emancipation proclamationwas signed and in effect in
1863.
The American civil war wasfought and the union army won
and the Confederate army lostthe civil war in 1865.
Let's keep in mind that blackAmericans were forced to assist
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their masters of the Confederatearmy.
When you see those Confederateflags, Keep in mind the
Confederates were the ones whowanted to keep.
Black people, African peopleenslaved.
For financial gain althoughthere were claims that the
Confederate army did not allowblack soldiers.
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There are unedited photographsthat proven fact there were
black soldiers fighting for theConfederate army.
In fact, black American soldiersserved in the civil war.
World war one.
World war II and the Vietnamwar.
Fighting bravely and boldly onthe front lines to uphold the
freedom of the United States ofAmerica.
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Only to be discharged from themilitary and be beaten and
jailed.
By the United States police.
An example of this would be Mr.
Isaac Woodard.
Was a black world war II veteranwho was beaten by police and
blinded by the beading.
Only two hours after beinghonorably.
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Discharge from the United Statesmilitary in 1946.
Even the contributions AfricanAmericans made to the United
States.
Military was not enough to betreated as a human in America.
We have discussed how thecontribution of over 400 years
of free labor.
I helped to build the UnitedStates economy and wealth.
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We have discussed how thecontribution of black American
war veterans.
Uh, serving in the United Statesmilitary have helped the United
States in more ways than one.
So we now know the truth aboutthe foundation of the United
States.
However, we can not forget thatAmerica.
Was actually stolen from thenative Americans back in 1492,
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when Christopher Columbus sailedthe ocean blue.
Hopefully you all know about thestory of the genocide and mass
murder of the native Americans,the indigenous people on their
own land right here in America,which was then called the new
world.
Rest peacefully to the neighborAmerican souls that were lost.
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I know this discussion aboutblack Americans contributions
does not add up to the UnitedStates history that you learn in
school.
There was a complete eraser ofthe major contributions and the
benefits that the ancestors ofblack Americans provided for the
United States.
Completely erased.
Non-existent.
We were only taught aboutenslaved black Americans, poor
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black Americans, criminalized,black Americans, lazy black
Americans And the land of thefree home of the brave never.
The contributions made by theblack Americans.
Black Americans were all freed.
Finally on June 19th.
1865.
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This date is now a holiday insome states called Juneteenth.
Freed black Americans werephysically free.
But not financially, mentallyand emotionally free.
Black Americans were never trulygiven the opportunity to build
and create wealth in their owncommunities after their freedom.
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Some will argue.
Yes.
They were given lead.
They were able to build theirown communities and schools.
Black Americans were never given40 acres and a mule that was
promised to them after freedomfrom the United States
government.
Uh, black Americans neverreceived reparations for payment
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of the physical labor orphysical abuse during slavery.
The United States governmentactually did pay reparations to
the Japanese Americans who wereinterned during world war two,
but did not pay reparations toblack people for the enslavement
of their ancestors or for theirparticipation in any war.
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In fact.
We will now discuss some of theresilient black communities.
The civil rights, movement andpolitical parties that were
established and thrived between1863 and up until 1970s.
You are probably thinking what.
Where are these politicalparties and community that now.
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You're about to have a quickhistory lesson.
I can only discuss a few that Ihave researched on.
However, there were othercommunities that thrived as
well.
There were other communitiesthat were destroyed as well, but
let's start this timelinejourney so that you can
understand.
The oppression.
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July 13th, 1863.
New York city draft massacre.
A whole week of violence.
That was an insurrection.
Yes.
An insurrection similar to theinsurrection that we saw Donald
Trump evoke on the United StatesCapitol building.
Back in 2021.
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Two years ago.
When recruitment started for thearmy.
A mob of white, new Yorkers,March through the city, they
went to attack and murderAfrican-Americans they set the
city's African-American orphanasylum on fire.
They shot burned and hanged.
African-Americans.
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Many were thrown into rivers todrown.
Over 400 people were killed inthis massacre.
2 years later.
An 1865 Freedmen's town.
Houston, Texas.
This was considered the fourthward of Houston, Texas.
You had many businesses likerestaurants and jazz clubs,
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homes were built.
However, the city denied andprevented African Americans
access.
To city services and createdrules to prevent them from
getting jobs.
Then Houston city planningcommission decided they wanted
to expand downtown Houston andpushed the African-Americans out
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of the community.
There was a housing projectcreated called Sam fully bay
courts and Freedmen's town.
But after world war II, thesample.
Lee bay courts community wasgiven to the white military
families only.
The rest of Freedmen's town,Texas was lost to the
development of downtown Houston.
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Later on in 1985, it wasdesignated a registered
historical site.
It doesn't change the fact thatthe land was given and then
easily taken away.
Eight years later, April 13th,1873.
On an Easter Sunday in Colfax,Louisiana.
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When African-American men backthen were part of the Republican
party.
And the Republican governor wonthe vote and gain control of
white Democrats.
There were over 2,400 blackRepublican voters.
And approximately.
2,200 white democratic voters.
The white Democrats out of angercreated a white militia and
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challenged the mostly blackmilitia under the governor.
On this Easter Sunday in 18 73,300 armed white men and white
supremacists organizationskilled approximately.
150 African Americans.
Some of the white men wereconvicted.
However, they were released whenthe United States Supreme court
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in United States vs Cruickshankruled, the enforcement act was
unconstitutional.
No one was ever arrested by thestate of Louisiana or local
officials.
25 years later.
November the 10th, 1898 inWilmington, North Carolina.
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There was an integrated town.
Three black Americans were onthe city council.
In the city of Wilmington.
Black people worked as firemenand policemen and magistrates.
African-Americans maintain powerof Wilmington, North Carolina
city government.
With anger, 800 white citizenswent to the county courthouse
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and produced.
What they called the whitedeclaration of independence.
In this declaration, it statedwe, the undersigned citizens
here by declared that we will nolonger be ruled at will never
again be ruled by men of Africanorigin.
The next day.
A mob of 2000 men proceeded withan insurrection.
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Once again.
Much like the insurrection thatwe saw Donald Trump, evoke on
the United States Capitolbuilding January of 2021.
History, continuing to repeatitself.
Black leaders were put in jailand some were sent out of town.
Thriving black neighborhoodswere burned down.
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In Wilmington.
The government was overthrown.
Thousands of black citizensfled.
In 1900.
The North Carolina legislatorstripped African-Americans of
the vote.
Using Jim Crow laws.
This was what started foldersuppression.
These massacres were designed toprevent black Americans from
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being in the United Statesgovernment, prevent them from
owning land.
Prevent them from economicadvancement.
Prevent them from education,freedom of press, religion and
labor rights.
These were massacres inflictedon black Americans to maintain
white supremacy.
And the United States back in1898.
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Eight years later.
We finally make it to the 19hundreds.
African-Americans are stilltrying to prosper politically
and economically.
September 24th, 1906, Atlanta,Georgia.
Blacks were once again, becominginvolved in the political field,
black Americans wereestablishing businesses,
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creating social networks andbuilding up the black community
in Georgia.
They were called the blackelite.
They had successfully acquiredwealth, education and prestige.
They even consider themselves asblack and leads to be above the
actual black working class.
Many whites were uncomfortablewith the black elites, the
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whites blame, the black workingclass for rising crime rates and
blame them for sexual violenceagainst white women.
White supremacist organizations.
We're finding ways to take downthe black elites and the black
working class.
During reconstruction of 1867and 1876.
Black men gained the right tovote.
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The 1906 governor believed inthe fear of black upper-class.
They believe that black shitstay in their place, which means
blacks should always be inferiorto whites.
There should never be blackupper-class as usual false
accusation was made in thenewspaper.
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Of course, the media back thenwas the newspaper.
The accusation was of a blackman assaulting a white woman.
This was never a proven factthat the assault ever happened.
However, thousands of white menand mobs went through the black
established neighborhoods inGeorgia central business
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district attacking black ownedbusinesses, smashing the windows
of the well-known barbershop,killing the business owners,
assaulting black women.
The white polies armed withrifles protected the white
properties while they allowwhite mobs to destroy and invade
black neighborhoods over 100black Americans were killed
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during this Georgia massacre in1906.
13 years later.
Other communities are stilltrying to survive and thrive in
America.
September 20th, 19, 19.
And Elaine Arkansas.
The Elaine Arkansas massacre ofthe sharecroppers.
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For those of you that don't knowthe sharecropper was created
after slavery as a job title forblack Americans that were still
working on the land, tending tocrops.
For low wages or sometimes justto pay their rent, to stay on
the land.
Because there were not jobsavailable to purchase their own
property.
A group of sharecroppers met ina small church in Elaine,
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Arkansas.
They were upset about their lowwages.
So they hired a lawyer to fightfor the right to be paid fairly.
Their plans were to join theprogressive farmers and
household union of America.
It was a union.
The white land owners backthere.
We're similar to predatorylenders in the world today, they
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allow the sharecroppers tocreate high interest debt,
knowing they would never makeenough money to pay off the
debt.
So white farm owners knew thiswould keep the sharecroppers
basically working for free.
Local white men and landownersfound out about the union
meeting at the church that theblack Americans have made with
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this lawyer.
And they fired shots into thesmall church.
A white man was shot during thegunfire and troops were sent
out.
The governor, the United Statesgovernment, the governor called
for soldiers and order thesoldiers to shoot, to kill any
Negro that refuse to surrenderimmediately.
They killed at least 200African-Americans or more.
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They kill men, women, andchildren.
This was also a time period whenblack soldiers were returning
back home from world war.
Now many whites believed theseblack war veterans were a
threat.
Keep that in mind.
Two years later.
Traveling towards the west ofthe United States, the massacre.
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That is the most known.
And most televised in recentnews media.
May 31st, 1921.
Tulsa, Oklahoma black wallstreet massacre.
And the beautiful, wellestablished and thriving.
Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa,Oklahoma.
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We just learned about how blacksoldiers were considered a
threat coming back from worldwar one.
Over in Elaine Arkansas.
Well, And Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This area was referred to asblack wall street.
This community had black ownedbanks.
Black owned hotel, which wouldprobably be like Hilton hotels.
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If it hadn't been bombed blackowned cafes, clothing stores,
movie theaters.
A remarkable school system.
They all had indoor plumbing intheir homes.
It was all around.
Black upper class.
I have to mention that thefounder of black wall street was
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a black man from Arkansas.
Named oh, w girly.
He moved to Tulsa and purchased40 acres of land and sold
different plots to otherAfrican-Americans.
He did this to allow blackAmericans to escape, the harsh
oppression of the south.
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The black dollar onlycirculated.
Within this black community andremained in the Greenwood
Oklahoma district.
Six black families flew andowned their own planes.
A white woman claimed to beassaulted by young black
elevator attendant.
And it calls white mobs to killover 300 people, a hundred were
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injured and the United Statesgovernment bombed the city.
35 city blocks went up intoflames.
The land in the Greenwooddistrict was never recovered by
its original owners.
Recently in 2021, they foundmass graves of bodies that were
buried.
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No reparations were given to thesurvivors.
I decided to take a personalvacation to go visit Greenwood
district of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And all we found and supported ablack owned coffee shop near the
monument where they wereconstructed for the hundredth
year anniversary.
And I also found a supported ablack owned bookstore.
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Other than that.
The city is just a tourist site.
Once again, no reparations forthe families, even though it was
the United States governmentthat bombed their town.
Even though there are survivingrelatives of those who lost
their land during the bombingand massacre.
No reparations for thosefamilies at this time.
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Two years after Tulsa.
We make our way back to thesouth.
This time, January 5th, 1923.
In Rosewood, Florida.
Another black community doingpretty well in the south was
destroyed due to.
A false accusation by a youngmarried white woman.
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Back then.
The newspaper media wouldportray black men in a negative
way.
They would make comments thatblack men were out to rape their
white women.
It made it easy for a whitewoman to say she was harmed or
threatened by a black man.
The same thing happened to youngimmaterial later in Mississippi,
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back in 1955.
Rest in peace to the innocentyoung man that was terrorized
and murdered by a white mob.
However and Rosewood, Florida.
A white lady claim.
She was assaulted by a black manwho escaped a prison chain gang.
Even though there was noevidence that any chain gang
member had escaped.
White men terrorize rosewoodsblack residents, the white mob
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fired into one of the homes ofblack resident and the black man
fire back in self-defense.
The black residents fought back.
Then 200 to 300 white men cameand attacked and killed
approximately 40 or more blackmen, women and children on site
burning the whole town ofRosewood to the ground.
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Many of the black residents fledto Gainesville, Florida, and
never returned back to the land.
They rightfully owned.
Once again, land and propertylost with no reparations.
When does the terrorism stop?
Many other communities throughthe years were burned,
destroyed.
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Some even flooded out by whitemobs and the United States
government.
31 years later in 1954, thecivil rights movement of
nonviolent resistance, civildisobedience campaigns, and
peaceful protests.
Started.
The United States, governmentbranch, FBI, federal bureau of
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investigation.
I worked hard to destroy themovement.
After the non-violent civilrights movement started in 1954
in 1956.
The federal bureau ofinvestigation started its
counter intelligence programcalled COINTELPRO.
Where the government illegallyconducted culvert projects
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created to illegally installsurveillance, wiretaps, and
disrupt political organizationsdesigned to protect.
And disrupt politicalorganizations designed to
protect black AmericansCOINTELPRO with threatened the
lives of civil rights activistsin order to stop the political
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movement for human rights.
Eventually the movement endedand ended with the assassination
Dr.
Martin Luther king Jr.
In 1968.
October 15th, 1966, the blackPanther party for self-defense
was founded as the mostinfluential militant black power
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organization.
Organized by Huey Newton.
Bobby seal and Fred Hampton.
These young black men werepolitical activists, creating
the black Panther party as apolitical party.
They were disappointed with thecivil rights movement efforts to
protect blacks in the south.
There were infuriated by thehistory of oppression,
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terrorism, and violence bypolice and the us government.
The black Panthers knew thehistory of all those massacres
we just discussed earlier inthis podcast.
They knew of the innocent men,women, and children being
murdered.
Huey Newton.
In his famous picture, he sitsin a throne chair wearing a
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black Baret and a black leatherjacket.
He is holding a rifle in hisright hand.
And a spear in his left hand,the bottom of the photo reads
his words.
The racist dog policemen mustwithdraw immediately from our
communities, cease their wantingmurder and brutality and torture
of black people, or face thewrath of the armed people.
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This original photo.
Isn't a collection at theSmithsonian national museum of
African-American history andculture.
The black Panther partychallenged the police and
protected black citizens frompolice brutality.
The black Panther parties,community service programs were
called survival programs thatprovided food, clothing,
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transportation, afterschoolprograms.
Before Fred Hampton.
He was assassinated.
He was in the process ofcreating a hospital, just like
the civil rights movement.
The United States, governmentbranch, FBI, federal bureau of
investigation, COINTELPRO,infiltrated, and ended the black
Panther party.
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By blackmailing, a black Pantherinformant use to strategically
assassinate Fred Hampton.
The movie called Judas and theblack Messiah is a great film
created to show the bravery andresilience of the young black
men in the movement and howCOINTELPRO was able to
successfully destroy thepolitical organization.
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Later members of the blackPanther party worked with the
underground black liberationarmy and underground white
organization.
A group of white allies for themovement called.
The weather underground.
Weather underground was a farleft Millicent organization
started in 1969 by some youngwhite college kids, including a
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white woman leader and ally forblack liberation.
By the name of Bernadine Dohrn.
This white group was violent andactually bombed us.
Government offices stories toldby the child of Bernadine Dorn
admits that the weatherunderground helped Assata Shakur
escape from her life sentence inprison.
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Assata Shakur was our favoriterapper rest in peace, Tupac, HSA
cores.
It was Tupac's aunt andgodmother.
Tupac Shakur wrote about hisaunt Assata Shakur on his 1991
track called words of wisdom.
Assata Shakur was a politicalactivist.
She left the black Panther partyto go underground with a black
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liberation army.
They successfully helped herescape from prison.
And then assisted her escape tofreedom safely to Cuba.
These organizations and leaderswere fighting for civil rights
in all forms to protectAfrican-Americans from white
terrorist police brutality andthe corruption of the United
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States government.
Trying to help build thrivingcommunities without the threat
of more massacres and terroristattacks from white mobs.
But then we have what I wouldcall the strategic silent
massacre to black communities.
Some may call it the war ondrugs.
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1968 United States, presidentLyndon, B Johnson.
Decided the government shouldfocus efforts on illegal drug
use 1971, president Nixondeclared a war on drugs, 1970s,
the crack epidemic when thegovernment agency C I a central
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intelligence unit flew incocaine to Los Angeles,
California.
Later to be diluted into crackcocaine, which was distributed
to the black community.
The agenda was created to pushcrack cocaine into the black
communities, which created drugdealers, gang wars, and crack
addiction and crack babies.
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You can fact check by readingreviews from the justice
department's investigation.
The CIA has always experimentedwith the effects of drugs, not
only by pushing into the blackcommunities and neighborhoods in
Los Angeles, but the CIA alsoconfessed to MK ultra drug
experiments on militarypersonnel and prisoners.
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In 1950s, the CIA is agovernment agency that would
test drugs to control humanbehavior.
So the CIA already knew thenegative psychological effects
of crack cocaine.
They knew how crack cocainecould be used.
Used to destroy generations ofblack Americans and black
communities.
This allow the government tocreate laws, to give long prison
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sentences for crack possession,the affordable black community
drug created.
Black on black crime laws, gangaffiliation laws.
Once again, to enslave andprison and oppress the black
community.
Long prison sentences formarijuana possession and to
marijuana drug dealers.
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Now.
Marijuana is sold legally, butcapitalize by white
organizations and dispensarydealers, majority white legal
marijuana dispensary dealerswere allowed to add a hundred
billion to the economy in 21states.
However, there are currentlyblack men and women in prison
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right now, still serving longprison terms for selling
marijuana during thegovernment's war on drugs.
Hey, you.
The champion for life changes.
I'm challenged.
You knew to be open tounderstanding.
That in a world of economics andwealth in the United States of
America, we have learned howwhite supremacists in the United
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States of America systematicallyused African-Americans to build
a wealthy economy and continueto strategically destroy
destruct abuse, and oppress theAfrican-American people
policing, which originallystarted during slavery as a
police could capture torture andhang black slaves.
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If they attempted to escape tofreedom.
Um, the FBI CIA COINTELPRO caninfiltrate and destroy any
organization designed by blackAmericans or allies for black
Americans to fight for civilrights or to protect black
communities from the terrorismof white supremacist groups.
Refuse to pay reparations forthe injuries, loss, and
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wrongdoings to African-Americanpeople.
Even though the maincontributors to the U S economy
and 17 hundreds and 18 hundredswere slave labor producing.
Consumer goods that were thebasis of world trade, including
coffee, cotton, run, sugar,tobacco key word.
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Slavery played a critical rolein the economic development of
the United States of America.
Slavery free laborers forpolitical correctness,
indentured servants, humancontraband.
When escaping to freedom.
These were people originally ofAfrican origin.
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Until they were forced to breedand be born on American soil.
And we now call them.
African Americans or blackAmericans.
The main contributors to the U Seconomy in 18, 15 to 1850 was
the industrial revolution andthe railroads, which were built
by African-Americans, whichhelped also create national
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transportation networks that arestill functional and being used
right now today in the UnitedStates.
African-Americans arecontributors to the U S economy
and creating inventions scienceand health industry,
professional sports music,industry, fashion, industry tech
industry.
The resilient and empoweringman.
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Mr.
O w girly.
Took his wealth.
And purchase 40 acres of land sothat other black people could
afford to purchase and build asuccessful wealthy community
back in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mr.
Girly could have chosen to usehis own wealth to buy a mansion
in Beverly Hills.
He used his wealth to helpsupport and build a successful
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community that was laterdestroyed by white terrorist.
The mindset in the early 19hundreds, black Americans had a
mindset of black empowerment anddesire to prosper together with
love.
Building an uplifting their owncommunities.
Imagine if all the currentlywealthy black Americans use
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their wealth to buy land.
Massacres and oppression thatstolen from the
African-Americans thatrightfully owned and operated
businesses and built homes.
As been the years of oppressionthat produce the mindset Kanye
west speaks of when he quotes,they make us hate ourselves.
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And love their wealth.
The national football league,peaceful protest of Colin
Kaepernick.
Colin took a knee during thenational Anthem to protest
against police brutality.
the NFL blackballed him andbasically implying the black
American football players juststay in their place, stay on
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that field and play the game.
Does that sound familiar to whatwe heard in the Atlanta, Georgia
massacre?
There was a complete eraser ofthe major contributions of
African-Americans in sports andathletics.
Eraser of major inventions ofAfrican-Americans.
Major medical breakthroughs byAfrican-Americans.
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Eraser.
African American military.
He rose.
Eraser of African-Americans inscience.
A ratio of African Americansresilience.
Each week.
I promote a book in Arthur'sthat have impacted my life or
help me heal by increasing myknowledge and awareness of
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experiences outside of my own.
I discussed briefly about ColinKaepernick's peaceful protest
against police brutality and howthe white owned NFL blackball
him.
We know black athletescontributes so much into the
entertainment world of sportsand create billions for white
team owners.
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Check out the true history ofhow black American athletes were
dominating the world of sports,but quickly refused rights to
ownership of professional teamsin America.
If you love sports and you wantto dive deeper into the history
of race politics and the truehistory of American sports.
One of my favorite books byWilliam C Rhoden.
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$40 million slaves.
It's a great book.
If you want to dive deeper intoyour research about the free
labor slaves in America.
The book slavery's capitalism, anew history of America's
economic development.
Bye.
Then Bechard.
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There's also a book.
The American slave coast, ahistory of the slave breeding
industry.
By Ned and constant sublet.
Those are the books that I'mworking, man, for you to just do
your own research, check yourown facts.
We know that was so much historyin the slave trade.
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We know Africa played a part inthe slave trade.
But we cannot forget andremember all of the
contributions.
That African Americans and blackAmericans made.
Being bred.
Raped.
Physically abused.
While working.
Extremely hard.
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In those fields.
To create an economy of wealthfor the United States of
America.
Champions, don't forget to checkand click on the links in my
podcast notes for the books topurchase the books.
Don't forget to click on thedonate link to donate to this
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podcast, to help support.
Remember that you are loved.
Remember that when we're realtogether, we heal together.
And in order for me to continuecreating these podcasts in this
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I need your love.
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all You are now a champion forhealing and change.
I was not able to covereverything in the session.
So here are some quick recaps.
See black Americans as nationbuilders and economy increasers
instead of animalistic thugs andcriminals, just because people
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have criminalized in thehumanized, a whole race of
people does not mean it is thereality.
After listening, ask yourselfthese questions.
Who does America really belongto?
Who are the real terrorist inAmerica?
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How do you justify racism?
How can we pretend thatoppression of African American
people is not real?
What type of person.
Is really considered a trueAmerican Patriot.
If you ever thought that peopleof color are lazy.
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Won't work violent.
Poor by choice.
Remember the sacrifice of theenslaved people and the free
labor used to build the economicwealth of the United States.
Although there are other races.
That are not white, but they aresteel anti-black American.
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They tend to not know or forgetthat black Americans built the
United States with free laborand were born and raised on
American soil.
Those are just some recaps thatI want you to think about and
consider.
If you decide to be an ally forthe black American community, or
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if you are black in America.
And you've been brainwashed orwhitewash to believe that.
Your fellow black Americans arejust lazy.
And, you don't want to admit thefact that a whole race of people
have been oppressed in America.
I have to admit that I am notperfect.
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And there were times in my lifeas a black American woman.
That I wouldn't have thoughtthat oppression was a real
thing.
I thought that a lot of thingsthat happened to the black
community were because of.
The choices that were made inthe black community.
I was not aware and open tothings that were being
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purposefully done to ourmovements.
Purposely pushed into ourneighborhoods.
How the education system.
Still is designed.
Too.
Allow black and brown childrento fail.
As an educator.
That is a very hard pill for meto swallow it.
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And I can only do my part bycontinue to educate.
And remind.
All people of color, have theirworth.
And all my students, black andbrown.
All races of my students thatyou're valuable.
And you're an asset to theUnited States of America.
If you're here.
Regardless to what your race isand that you should treat all
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people.
With dignity.
And respect.
We all have to be allies foreach other in the world.
Where we are still faced.
With white terrorism.
If you are an ally for the blackcommunity, understand the
contributions of all races inthe United States and the whole
world.
We all benefit from theknowledge of historical facts.
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We must exude the same peace,comfort, and love.
Please continue to celebrateblack history with an open
heart.
Elevate your mind.
Be open to health and wealth.
Trust the healing process,sometimes healing hurts, but
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when completely healed youbecome a stronger.
Wiser and amazing human.
That was heavy.
Let's relax and breathe.
Breathe in love.
Breathe out.
Love.
Breathe in peace.
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Breathe in love.
Share love.
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