I AM TRAYVON Operation: Strengthen the Disclosure - Disclosure of Complicity with the Injury or Enslavement of Our Ancestors - Videos

1.) The present generation of Blacks are too far removed from the actual injury? Well, I think they need to consider the fact that second and third generation Jews are suffering from PTSD as a result of their parents, grandparents or great grandparents suffering from 10 years of terror in Nazi Germany. http://judaism.about.com/od/holocaust/a/hol_gens_2.htm

My question to the City Council would be what kind of mental, emotional and psychological damage has been done to today's generation after almost 400 years of brutal enslavement, Jim Crow, racial discrimination, and institutionalized racism that exists today in this nation? How dare they suggest that this current generation is not damaged.

2. What is the statute of limitations for murder? Their own laws say NONE. The Bible, upon which original U.S. law was based, spells out God's view about kidnapping - "And he that stealth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." - Exodus 21:16.

3. The Constitution is "color-blind". Nothing could be further from the truth.

At the time of the first Presidential election in 1789, only 6 percent of the population–white, male property owners–was eligible to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment extended the right to vote to former male slaves in 1870; American Indians gained the vote under a law passed by Congress in 1924; and women gained the vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html

Then there is the Dred Scott case. In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.

Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery and intent on protecting southerners from northern aggression -- wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."

Referring to the language in the Declaration of Independence that includes the phrase, "all men are created equal," Taney reasoned that "it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration. . . ."

Abolitionists were incensed. Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." For Douglass, the decision would bring slavery to the attention of the nation and was a step toward slavery's ultimate destruction. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

In addition, the book "Powernomics" by Dr. Claud Anderson clearly spells out the systematic exclusion of Blacks from wealth and power from the end of slavery down to this day. The current and future generations of Blacks in America continue to be enslaved, only without chains and shackles. Shalom, my brother.

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Wes Barnard November 22, 2013 at 7:51pm

1.) The present generation of Blacks are too far removed from the actual injury? Well, I think they need to consider the fact that second and third generation Jews are suffering from PTSD as a result of their parents, grandparents or great grandparents suffering from 10 years of terror in Nazi Germany. http://judaism.about.com/od/holocaust/a/hol_gens_2.htm

My question to the City Council would be what kind of mental, emotional and psychological damage has been done to today's generation after almost 400 years of brutal enslavement, Jim Crow, racial discrimination, and institutionalized racism that exists today in this nation? How dare they suggest that this current generation is not damaged.

2. What is the statute of limitations for murder? Their own laws say NONE. The Bible, upon which original U.S. law was based, spells out God's view about kidnapping - "And he that stealth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." - Exodus 21:16.

3. The Constitution is "color-blind". Nothing could be further from the truth.

At the time of the first Presidential election in 1789, only 6 percent of the population–white, male property owners–was eligible to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment extended the right to vote to former male slaves in 1870; American Indians gained the vote under a law passed by Congress in 1924; and women gained the vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_13.html

Then there is the Dred Scott case. In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.

Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery and intent on protecting southerners from northern aggression -- wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."

Referring to the language in the Declaration of Independence that includes the phrase, "all men are created equal," Taney reasoned that "it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration. . . ."

Abolitionists were incensed. Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." For Douglass, the decision would bring slavery to the attention of the nation and was a step toward slavery's ultimate destruction. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

In addition, the book "Powernomics" by Dr. Claud Anderson clearly spells out the systematic exclusion of Blacks from wealth and power from the end of slavery down to this day. The current and future generations of Blacks in America continue to be enslaved, only without chains and shackles. Shalom, my brother.

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