All Roads Lead to Washington, DC“Human Rights, Reparations Town Hall Meeting”All For Reparations And EmancipationThe Idea of a Black Holocaust Memorial Day originated in New York City by one of the Ministers of the Honorable Silis Muhammad over 18 years ago. This tradition has continued annually in our local Mosques.Black Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration was held April 5, 2009 at Muhammad’s Mosque in Washington, DC. Muslims and Christians came together in unity to remember our foreparents who suffered and died during 310 years of white oppression in America. Afro descendants/Blacks came from as far away as Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York City, North Carolina, and Mississippi for this occasion.I am also pleased to announce that there will be a “Human Rights, Reparations Town Hall Meeting” at Muhammad’s Mosque at 1111 Bladensburg Rd. NE, in Washington, DC, June 28, 2009 at 1:00 pm.I will give you the further details on the Town Hall meeting” later but I want to focus on Black Holocaust Memorial Day for a brief moment. On April 1st of each year, the followers of the Honorable Silis Muhammad remember their African forefathers who were uprooted from their homeland in Africa and brought to the (Americas) Western Hemisphere in shackles and chains. (1555)100 million Africans were uprooted from their homeland. They suffered the worst treatment of any people since the creation of the earth. It is only fitting and proper that Afro descendants have a National Day of Remembrance to honor them.It would be disrespectful to the legacy of our foreparents, who gave their lives and suffered too much, for us to not have a “National Black Holocaust Memorial Day” to honor them. (The Jews honor their foreparents who also suffered and died during the Holocaust in Germany during World War II.) On April 1st of each coming year, we must honor and remember the slaves who even fought in the Civil War. We must remember and honor the Abolitionists like Fredrick Douglas and the other “Great Freedom Fighters” who revolted against slavery, namely: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, David Walker, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, and Gabriel Prosser, to name a few.Is anything wrong with a “National Black Holocaust Memorial Day” to honor them?I am not referring to Black History Month. I have reference to a “National Day of Remembrance” to honor the “freedom fighters” that paved the way for us today.If it weren’t for our foreparents, who survived the worst Holocaust, the most horrific event in human history, we would not be living today. The least that we can do, as Afro descendants, is to teach our children and grandchildren to honor them on April 1st of each coming year. This must occur in this generation and all the other generations to come.However, there will be unlearned blacks who will rise up and openly oppose such a Holiday honoring our forefathers but I remind you that those same people will not utter a single opposing word against the Jews honoring their foreparents who died during the Holocaust in Germany. When did you hear of any black person openly criticizing or opposing the Jews for their annual Observance of the Holocaust?On April 21, 2009 Jews in America, Israel and around the world remembered the 6 million Jews, who died during the Holocaust in Germany. Those blacks who may openly oppose such a Holiday for us, I would like to ask you a serious question.Was the Jews’ 6 years of suffering in Germany greater than the slaves’ suffering in America for 310 years? Then why shouldn’t Afro descendants honor their own foreparents on April 1st of each year- like the Jews honor their foreparents?Aren’t our forefathers worthy of honor, recognition and respect? Didn’t they make unbearable sacrifices so that we could be here today? Then we should honor them!According to history, the Holocaust in Germany lasted approximately 6 years. The slaves in America suffered and died 304 years longer than the Jews in Germany. This brings me to a profound statement by Malcolm X. He said, “100 million Africans were uprooted from the African continent-where are they today?“…One 100 million Africans were uprooted, 100 hundred million Africans”, according to the book Anti- Slavery, by Professor Dwight Drummond. Malcolm X repeats during his statement, “…excuse me for raising my voice-were uprooted from the continent of Africa.”Those Africans who were kidnapped from their homeland and brought to the (Americas) Western Hemisphere, were not brought here to be citizens, they were brought here to be burden bearers, to be slaves for white people. They were stripped of their names, religion, culture and identity. (Collective human rights)Malcolm X made another profound statement. He said “At the end of slavery, you did not have 25 million Africans in the Western Hemisphere. What happened to the other 75 million people?” Their bodies are at the bottom of the ocean, or their blood and their bones have fertilized the soil of this country.”6 million Jews died in the Holocaust in Germany and the Jewish people saw fit to set aside a “Day of Remembrance” to honor their foreparents who perished in Germany. We, the members of the Lost Found Nation of Islam also saw fit to set aside a “Day of Remembrance” to honor our forefathers who died fighting for freedom in America.The up coming “Human Rights, Reparations Town Hall Meeting” will be on June 28, 2009. The key note speaker for this event will address the issue of human rights, destruction of identity, the lingering effects of slavery and reparations.He is well qualified to teach the Educated, the Mis-educated and the Mis-informed, about human rights and reparations from an international perspective.We are pleased to announce that we have invited a “powerful and dynamic speaker” from Chicago to give the keynote address. Minister Ajani Mukkaram is the President of the (Lost-Found Nation of Islam) Afro Descendants Government; the title of his lecture will be:“The Divinity of Human Rights and Reparations”There will be other dynamic speakers as well. There will also be a special report of the Durban Review Conference against Racism that was held April 20-24 in Geneva, Switzerland, the conference that the Obama Administration boycotted.Human rights and reparation has not been the paramount issue that the vast majority of Afro descendants have been willing to fight for. In my view, it is simply because the “white power structure” has not put their stamp of approval on it.If the “white power structure had put their stamp of approval on human rights and reparations, the vast majority of Afro descendants would support it 100%.Silis Muhammad did not wait to get approval from the white power structure. He knew blacks had no (identity) collective human rights when he went to the United Nations 17 years ago.When a people have lost their culture, language and identity, they have lost their human rights. The facts will show that Afro descendants’ identity was lost (genetically) through forced mixed breeding and rape during slavery.Because of the systematic destruction of their culture, language, and identity through forced mixed breeding and rape, Afro descendants are not in possession of their collective human rights. Afro descendant’s “identity” was changed biologically.On page 61-62, in the book, Before Freedom Came, it states that “…Another major threat to the stability of the slave family was the sexuality liberty taken by white men with female slaves. If a slave family had an attractive daughter, she could be taken from her home and moved to “the Big House” where the young masters could (rape) have their run of her,” as a former Virginia slave described it. In his memoirs, escaped slave Henry Clay Bruce wrote, “We would have been pure black, were it not for those immoral white men, who by force injected their blood into our veins, to such an extent, that we now represent all colors from pure black to pure white, and almost entirely as a result of the licentiousness of white men.”On page 183, in the book, Ethnic America, Thomas Sowell said: "Black Americans were the only racial or ethnic group brought to America against their will. They came from a vast continent-larger than Europe –and initially spoke a great variety of languages (800) and represented many very different cultures. In more than two centuries of bondage, their many ancestral languages and cultures faded away, and their genetic differences were amalgamated (together with a substantial mixture of Caucasian genes) to produce the American Negro-A cultural and Biological product of the New World , Rather than direct descendants of any given African nation or culture."Mr. Sowell said further, "Numerous genetic, linguistic, and cultural distinctions among Africans were obliterated in more than two centuries of slavery."Obliterate means to destroy something so that nothing remains.Historian Frank Tannenbaum stated on page 41 in his book, “Slave and Citizen”, “The Negro is a (Judge) Magistrate on the city bench in New York, a member of Congress; he is a Senator and member of the cabinet in other places. He is part of the nation. He’s active, vocal, self assertive, and a living force. He has become culturally a European, or, if you will, an American, A white man with a black face.”How can Afro descendants (rich, middle class or poor) claim that they have collective human rights when those rights were systematically destroyed through forced mixed breeding and rape during slavery? How can they possibly be in possession of their human rights when they were obliterated during slavery? Have the white power structure mis-led Afro descendants to believe that they are in possession of their collective human rights?“Don’t miss this informative Town Hall Meeting on Human Rights and Reparations.”I am your brother,Minister Najee MuhammadE-mail njmuhammad@yahoo.comWDC- See Attachment/flyerFor more information call 202-388-0095
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