Juneteenth VS Reparations
Juneteenth
The celebration of Juneteenth, by people of Afrikan descent is one of the oldest commemorations of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation ending the enslavement of specifically people of African descent in the United States.
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be thenceforward, and forever free.”
Yet this document only applied to enslaved people in the Confederacy, and not to those in the border states that remained loyal to the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation itself did not end the enslavement of people of Afrikan descent in the United States. It only applied to the 11 Confederate states then at war against the Union, and not under Union control. To make emancipation permanent would take a constitutional amendment abolishing the institution of slavery itself.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
The reason why Juneteenth was coined was that it took many days to reach the remaining lynchpins of southern Confederate states and Cities that still legally held Melanin people in captivity. So between June 13th- and June 19th, the celebrations of emancipation were varied. On June 19th, 1865, Galveston, Texas observed the Emancipation of enslaved people of African descent.
This year of 2021, Juneteenth as the African American Emancipation Day, which has spread across the United States and beyond, was recognized by the United States as a National Federal Holiday. Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement in a week, and in some areas a month marked with celebrations, guest speakers, parades, concerts, Bar-B-Ques, and other family and social gatherings. It is a time for reflection and memorial of our Ancestors who sacrificed their liberty and lives for future generations. It is a time for self-improvement and for planning the future. Its growing popularity signifies a level of recognition, maturity, and dignity from the United States that is long overdue. In cities across the country, people of all nationalities and political philosophies, are joining hands to truthfully acknowledge a period in US history that shaped and continues to influence our society today. As we all become more sensitized to the conditions and experiences of other people in multiculturalism, can we then make significant and lasting improvements in our own society as People of Afrikan Descent?
General Order Number 3
One of General Granger’s first orders of business was to read to the people of Texas, General Order Number 3 which began most significantly with:
"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer."
The celebrations that followed the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by General Gordon Granger began a tradition that has lasted for one hundred and fifty-five years, and today is hosted in cities across the United States and beyond. The U.S. Government with the rally of many political figures of Afrikan Descent, Established Juneteenth as a National Federal Holiday. YET from 1619- to 1865, then to 2021- the United States has yet to recover or even Acknowledge that Reparations must be delivered, for the Utter debasements and exploitations that are still happening in the United States to people of Afrikan descent. BLACK LIVES MATTER TOO!
Vs Reparations
Many People of Afrikan Descent have settled with living in a "burning house", as Dr. M. L. King Jr. spoke to Harry Belafonte: “We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house."
In his march to Washington for Jobs and Justice he continues:
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.... But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.”
He continues, “In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (Yeah), they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall, heir... It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.”
So it seems with the formal Federal recognition of Juneteenth, we are expected to take a holiday as (or in lieu of) Reparations. This is 2021. It has been 156 more years since the 13th amendment was signed with the strategy of legally criminalizing people of Afrikan descent for the purpose of Genocide or returning them to human trafficking for enslavement. Now we have the Prison Industrial Complex, The working poor for slave wage jobs, The hideous crimes still occurring in the Foster Care system, Sex trafficking, and the forever wars of the military-industrial complex.
The US Government owes a debt, not only for the capture, human trafficking, and abject abuse of people of Afrikan Descent but for the Institutional systemic racism, Jim Crow Laws, Redlining/ segregation, and inequity in the United States across the board. Many have made great statements about Juneteenth, that should be reflected upon and followed. Yet, Why do we even care to participate, in any form, on this particular Negropeon day- of Juneteenth- on June 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, or 19th? The Emancipation Proclamation was only a political and war tool, drafted to halt the secession of the Confederates in the south, from the Union of Colonizers from Britain, by crippling the South from their harvest exports. Even though many people of Afrikan Descent and many who are nations who were here in North America long before the year 1492, who fought on BOTH sides of the Civil War. Enslaved African American descendants have NEVER received our 40 acres and a mule.
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. This Act authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. So this was going on before the Civil War.
During the Indian removal by the US Government, people of Afrikan Descent were thrown off of the Dawes rolls, or our records were burned down to remove our status as Native Americans.
We have yet to see ANY Reparations for people of Afrikan descent recognized as a nation or ethnic group.
Many of our Ancestors were (and are Still) the cash crop commodity for exploitation by the United States. The Integration/Desegregation and Assimilation policies of the US only opened the gateway for free-range enslavement through sharecropping and Jim Crow Laws that were enacted as a backlash of the Confederates. So the Confederate plantation owners were paid our restitution and reparations, and they are now creating a mass resurgence in the United States with the money that moonshiners made creating Ethanol fuels and grain Alcohol for COVID-19 sanitation products. This led to the January 6th Attempted Coo on the United States Capital. Many people of Afrikan descent are still sharecropping, as the working poor on a quicksand foundation of low unlivable wages and Government benefits. Many are just cash cows, still renting someone else's white-flight abandoned house and many still have Redlining and sundown laws still attached to the warranty deeds. Black Afrikan Americans are invisible and voiceless.
Yes, our Ancestors, who were people of Afrikan Descent, fought in and survived the Civil War, pooled their money together to build educational institutions, and purchased Farmlands that many were later lynched off of. Many of these educational institutions are now underutilized and are contesting to remove their HBCU status.
As the Human Rights movement for People of Afrikan descent changed to a Civil rights movement for feminists and other fringe groups, The desegregation/ Integration of our communities and the bombing and burning of our Black-owned Businesses began. Now Black people Consume from Integration to assimilate into an alien US culture that rejects Afrikan American influences. Now People of Afrikans Descent wear their clothes, use their names, practice their religions, Teach their own children miseducation and pseudo-sciences, eat their toxic foods that were grown on stolen land, drink their liquor, and smoke their poisons, drive their cars, put on their fake fingernails, eyelashes, and weave/wigs- of the very people who have oppressed and are still pursuing the genocide of people of Afrikan descent. They have locked up our children in institutions, to be the wards of the state, They have executed our children for crimes that they did not commit. They Abduct our children to be used for organ harvesting, in science experiments, and bomb and weapons testing. Their arts industries have even exploited and changed the keynotes and hertz range of our music. They have exposed us to their clinical trials for terminal diseases, experimental surgeries, and vaccines. They have even changed the time of the day (DST) to disrupt our natural Circadian rhythm and lower our immune systems!
We are better off to celebrate the legacy of our Great Ancestars on our own Sacred Days- of the Solstices and Equinoxes...
The Ausarian Resurrection- The longest day of the year is a REAL AND NATURAL EVENT! Occurring Every June 20th, 21st and 22nd when the Sun stands still for 3 days.
YES We need our own times for reflection. We should be fasting and cleansing our bodies in preparation of the Ausarian Solstice to prepare for an abundant harvest in the Autumnal equinox, where we celebrate Umoja Karamu. We must GROW OUR OWN FOODS! Appropriate our own water, CREATE OUR OWN Natural healing MEDICINES, PRACTICE OUR OWN WEAPONS FOR DEFENSE.
We must release the martyred prisoners of War who are still the cash commodity and human clinical trial and sexual abuse victims.
We must TAKE our Reparations. Freedom cannot be given- It MUST be TAKEN! Yes I am an advocate for our own Nationhood on our own land RIGHT HERE IN THE AMERICAS!
We have lived under this Maritime Law Pirate ship of white supremacy for too long!
COVID-19 IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF OUR TRIALS! WE BETTER KNUCKLE UP! BLACK FAMILIES MATTER!
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