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MY PERSPECTIVE AND REACTION

TO

THE UN 2011,

INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT

February 1, 2011

I ask that you bear with me, and the reason is that many of you do not espouse to my Spirituality.  Regardless, my heartfelt desires and concerns are for all people of color, and that we must speak in behalf of ALL Blacks who are persecuted, oppressed, and suffering in this present world system.  And because of my Spirituality, it is my conviction and staunch belief that true FREEDOM, RESETTLEMENT elsewhere (for those who want it), and REPARATIONS will be acquired and manifest through the WORKS of the CREATOR GOD – the same GOD that SAVED the Children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage.  Just in case you never noticed, our predicaments are very much the same.  The difference is that there has not been a mandate stating, “Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river”.  Nevertheless, there are covert instructions to judge Black males and Black females even for the smallest crimes and order them to jail for life.  And let’s not even go into the racial profiling that can get Blacks shot to death or landed in jail on trumped up charges.  Yes, I am fighting for Blacks to be free of this racism and for REPARATIONS for Blacks all over the world for this heinous Slave Trade, which was a crime against Blacks that has us still suffering.  So, whether you agree with my Spirituality or not, we can come together for the betterment, self-determination, and empowerment of all Black peoples in order that our children will not have to endure this present world order that keeps us in darkness, in captivity, and under White control.   

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Before writing my perspective to the United Nations’ Resolution concerning the 2011 International Year for People of African Descent, I read through many documents and E-mails related to our fight against racism and our battle for Reparations.  Although there are diverse ideals about how to attain Reparations, it is good that the great majority of us speak out and believe that we are justified in seeking it.  That which is of great import is that we are once again on the road to make this struggle come to fruition.  And this time, we cannot be slow to act, and we certainly cannot give up the fight. 

My platform and focus is that we be more aggressive in placing blame, which clearly falls on Colonial and U.S. governments for this cruel and barbaric Slave Trade in which 100 million Blacks died enroute to slave castles, while awaiting slave ships, during the Middle Passage and in the lands of the Slavers.  The United States is to be blamed also for the lynchings and thousands of injustices that followed unto this day without bringing the criminals to justice.  We must also focus on our FREEDOM and “release” from the grips of a system that has taken our forebears in chains and yokes out of Africa and completely ethnically cleansed us of our roots.  Next, we are within our human rights to have the government start RESETTLEMENT proceedings and REPARATIONS to meet the above objectives.  Whatever your concerns, keep the audacity to hope for FREEDOM, RESETTLEMENT, and REPARATIONS alive in these United States and in all countries and governments that stole Blacks out of Africa.

There is no question that savage racism is the makeup of the American Way and is a serious problem for Blacks and all people of color.  However, we have made racism the basis for Reparations without any success.  Hence, we have to consider an even greater approach and stratagem to meet our objectives.  We have to consider an even greater approach to not only resolve the issue of racism for Blacks who are proud to be Americans.  But for those of us who deplore the racism, injustice, corruption, and subjugation that permeate the US systems, and who want better lives elsewhere, we want lifestyles of excellence for our children and progeny.   And we must stand strong before the United Nations and insist upon self-determination - elsewhere - because it will never happen in the “Good Ol’ US of A”.  Thus, we must have our FREEDOM and RESETTLEMENT in stable and friendly countries of our choice that tolerate people of color.

We are well aware that the United States has become a country unfit for human habitation – not just because of the ill treatment of Blacks and other minorities but because the country’s waters and atmosphere are polluted beyond any means of remedy.  Thus, the country is diseased with race hatred and carcinogenic chemicals in the water and in the air that we breathe. 

I have long since admired my ambitious and goodhearted Black people who are always encouraging excellence in our undertakings.  However, we, as a group, have had little opportunity to accomplish our goals and our dreams, even though some of us are computer programmers, mathematicians, scientists, educators, engineers, doctors, and specialists in all fields.  Few Blacks are president and vice president of billion dollar corporations, and those employed in large corporations do not move up the ladder in positions that matter and salaries as do Whites.  And do not delude yourselves, no matter what the UN puts in writing, nothing is going to change in this country with a foundation built on a Holocaust, prejudice, segregation, and race hatred. 

Nevertheless, if we are in control of our own educational system, our governments, and our own social and economical systems, then we can make the necessary decisions for our own well-fare.  Let’s not forget Black Wallstreet.  That was an exceptional accomplishment Whites never intended to happen, and it has not occurred since they destroyed Wallstreet’s complete design and foundation.  Whites were appalled that Blacks could be so successful without their involvement, and they had to put and end to Wallstreet before it got so big that it was in competition with them.  To believe that another Black Wallstreet will happen again in the United States is to believe a lie.  The truth of the matter is that if there were no poor Blacks in the States and no Third-world countries existing in gross impoverishment, then there would be no White Supremacy. 

We have to rise above our plight and be inspired and encouraged to take our expertise elsewhere and establish the likes of our own Black Walstreet in countries that will be happy to receive it.  If Whites won’t invest in Blacks, then let Blacks invest in Blacks, and today we have Ghana, Nigeria, and other countries in South America and Africa with the finances willing to help in this regard, if we can prove our willingness to be successful and excel with the best of them.

We must go before the United Nations and seek our FREEDOM on the basis of the forced migration that brought our forebears to these shores and kept us here in this land of misery.  We must go before the United Nations and seek RESETTLEMENT opportunities because of this cruel displacement.  We must go before the United Nations for Reparations to finance our settlements/communities, housing, farms, school systems, and funding for our livelihoods and recreational centers, hospitals and clinics – much needed to give our people the required medical attention.  All these facilities are what will make our people self-supporting and viable citizens in societies that we will have established, as well as make us truly proud to be Black. 

The Slave Trade thrived because of the millions who were forcibly migrated to these shores (and to other countries), because of colonial America and the US government that perpetuated the control of many generations of Blacks in Slavery.  On these grounds also, it is our human right for justice to be served, and it is the duty of the United Nations to aid us in this cause and justice for the barbaric and cruel Slave Trade.  Human rights and FREEDOM for all is the basis and duty of the United Nations, and we at this point want justice served for all the atrocities committed against Slaves and against us. 

We must also be compassionate towards descendants of Slaves in other countries and speak in their favor, as well.  In this regard, we must cause the United Nations to understand the need for an International Foundation established for contributions from all countries that grew wealthy off the backs of Slaves in order that all descendants of Slaves might benefit from the untold criminal acts against Black humanity that has gone unresolved for far too long. 

It is imperative that any UN conferences involving the 2011 International Year for People of African Descent include “African American” representation equaling the same number of UN members addressing this issue.  This is what’s fair and justified on the basis of Colonial Americans insistence on “no taxation without representation” policy.

After reading the 2011, International Year for People of African Descent, I am not encouraged.  The idea and purpose are fine, but I read nothing written that will address our requests for FREEDOM, RESETTLEMENT, REPARATIONS, and an end to racism.

Excerpt from the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly:

“Proclaims the year beginning on 1 January 2011 the International Year For People of African Descent, with a view to strengthening national actions and Regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in Relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture:”

Who compiled this report?  Are they people who are truly serious about 2011 being a productive year to address Black Agendas?  Everyone who is anyone in this country knows that the powers-that-be are well aware of the inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination we face being people of color since the Slave Trade.  If this General Assembly is not aware, then without hesitation we can spend a two or three years before the United Nations taking turns citing passages in the annals of history involving all the heinous crimes of the Slave Masters and the double standards, isolation, and exclusion from the equal distribution of wealth and the job market, even since the end of Slavery in 1865!

Didn’t the person or Assembly Committee responsible for this Resolution know about Affirmative Action that did much of nothing to help our cause but that worked above and beyond for White Women?  Aren’t these people aware of the lily White Senate and AIPAC, another White but Jewish organization, that runs the House of Representatives and the Senate with bribes and that has concern only for White “Jews” and those whom they can exploit?  Isn’t this Assembly aware that these White “Jews” can successfully get their way and everything they want from this government and even have the chutzpah to object to rights that are due Blacks? And aren’t they aware of the KKK, the injustice in the judicial system, and the disproportionate number of Blacks incarcerated than Whites?  Didn’t this Assembly hear about President Bush pulling the US representatives out of the World Conference Against Racism?  Aren’t these people aware that this past December, the UN General Assembly voted and approved a resolution to hold a summit commemorating the Durban Conference Against Racism, and the US voted against this resolution?  There is but one way to fight the racism in this country, and that is to leave it!  There has been no American Dream for descendants of Slaves, no enjoyment or even hope of better lives, and participation in the economic benefits in this country have been nil.  And this “promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture” is nothing more than a joke.  The school systems no longer are concerned with Multicultural Education, and when they were, it was mainly about the Jewish Holocaust ad nauseam, as if the Black Holocaust overshadowed their White Jewish thirteen years of pogrom.

If the General Assembly wanted to make descendants of Slaves believe that this Resolution is truly intended to make changes for the betterment of Blacks, then it should have implemented buzz words commonly used by Blacks who are fighting for our FREEDOM and fighting against RACISM and for JUSTICE SERVED for the SLAVE TRADE! 

The UN General Assembly should know by now that there is not much that will be done when the US government and other agencies are foremost in committing “racial discriminations”.

If no one can strengthen the office of the Presidency to be a voice for those who have none, how will anything positive ever be accomplished for Blacks in this place called “America the Beautiful”?  And I fail to understand what “Regional and International cooperation” entails and is in regard to our economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights, etc., etc. 

It appears to me that some folks at the UN attempted to write a Resolution that looked good on paper, but they failed miserably, as this document leaves much to be desired.  We must, at all costs, work in conjunction with ALL Committees and Conferences involving this 2011, International Year for People of African Descent, or our objectives will not be met.  Remember and take to heart, it is now time for us to have our voices heard loud and clear that descendants of Slaves are determined to have justice served for the Slave Trade and for the ensuing race hatred and savage injustice that has prevailed since forcing Blacks to this country.  We can no longer stand by and allow the White world governments to sweep the atrocities of the Slave Trade and racism under the rug, as if they never existed.  Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan held demonstrations that we must consider and be as equally as determined to stand strong and be steadfast as have been the peoples of these countries.  Let’s not forget that money talks and peaceful demonstrations walk, if we ever want change in our lives and in the lives of our children.  What have we got to lose?

White folks and even some Blacks do not think we deserve Reparations.  If these are the ones who wrote this Resolution, then the first steps for justice have not been served.  Nevertheless, I appeal to the United Nations to give us at least half the wealth the government and the Slavers amassed off the backs of our forefathers, for without their labor, this country would not be the power in the world that it is, dwindling though that power may be.

I cannot close without a warning.  Without question, when REPARATIONS are rendered, those who will choose to stay in the US should know that efforts will be made to extend this restitution to everyone but to descendants of Slaves.  Even President Obama, a man, husband, and father that I deeply admire, has said that REPARATIONS can be provided in the form of better educational systems.  Taxes for educational systems are already in place, but just not for the Black ghettoes wherein have lived poor, impoverished Blacks for lack of the necessary education, employment, and salaries to bring them out of this dilemma. 

In the words of Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, “We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century.”  And he is absolutely correct!

IN THE WORDS OF GOD’s SERVANT AND PROPHET MOSES:

“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD”

Tziona Yisrael

http://www.thelawkeepers.org

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2011, International Year for People of African Descent

© ONU

On 18 December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year beginning on 1 January 2011 the International Year for People of African Descent (A/RES/64/169).

The Year aims at strengthening national actions and regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture.

The General Assembly encourages Member States, the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and existing resources, and civil society to make preparations for and identify possible initiatives that can contribute to the success of the Year.

Full Text of the Resolution

Related links

Special event for the launching of the Year 2011, on December 10, 2010 (video)

Article from the UN Information Centre (in French)

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Slave Routes. A Global Vision: Highlighting the African presence and contribution 

Source:ONU

10-12-2010

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[Typed from the UN pdf file]

UNITED NATIONS                                                                                             A/RES/64/169

GENERAL ASSEMBLY                                                                                 Distr.: General

                                                                                                             19 March 2010

Sixty-fourth Session

Agenda item 69 (b)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part 11)]

64/169. International Year for People of African Descent

The General Assembly,

            Re affirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,¹ which proclaims that All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind.

            Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rigjts,²  the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,² the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,³  the Convention on The elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,⁴ the Convention on the Rights of the Child,⁵ the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,⁶ the Convention on the Rights OF Persons with Disabilities⁷ and other relevant international human rights instruments,

            Recalling also the relevant provisions of the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits, in particular the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action⁸ and the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,⁹

            Recalling further its resolutions 62/122 of 17 December 2007, 63/5 of 20 October 2008 and 64/15 of 16 November 2009 on the permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.

Proclaims the year beginning on 1 January 2011 the International Year For People of African Descent, with a view to strengthening national actions and Regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in Relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture:

Encourages Member States, the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and existing resources, and civil society to make preparations for and identify possible initiatives that can contribute to the success of the Year;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a report containing a draft programme of activities for the Year, taking into account the views and recommendations of Member States, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent of the Human Rights Council and other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, as appropriate.

65^th plenary meeting

18 December 2009

¹ Resolution 217 A (III).

² See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

³ United Nations, Treaty Series, col. 660, No. 9464.

⁴ Ibid, vol. 1249, No. 20378.

⁵ Ibid, vol. 1577, No. 27531.

⁶ Ibid, vol. 2220, No. 39481.

⁷ Resolution 61/106, annex I.

⁸ A/CONF. 157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

⁹ See A/CONF. 189/12 and Corr. 1, chap. I

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