Forum Post: Where Are The Communities of the Children of Slaves?

An Observation on the Direction of this Movement:

Wall Street was built by enslaved Africans. Enslaved Africans were the first commodities sold on Wall Street, along with the resources absconded from their lands. The first "corporations" were plantation owners whose wealth from the commodities enslaved Africans produced, laid the economic foundation for the U.S. and Europe.

Africa's precious mineral and oil resources are still a significant source of Europe's and America's wealth, yet her children are poor, dying and diseased through instigated ethnic wars, planned genocide, IMF exploitation, and bio-and economic terrorist from the West.

The descendants of the enslaved Africans have been fighting an unending battle against institutionalized/systemic racism, discrimination and oppression, that was designed to weld them permanently at the very bottom of the economic, social and cultural ladder in America. This was achieved with the active support and cooperation of the white middle class.

Today, corporate entities such as CCA the prison industrial complex, are re-enslaving millions of poor blacks and other minorities in their for profit prisons, where their incarceration and labor is outsourced for even bigger profits.

Black and Latina families have been ravished, and their communities suffer the highest unemployment, home foreclosures, multi-generational poverty, HIV, school drop-out, police murder and brutality etc., in this nation. Yet there is no effort to either address these issues, or include these communities as significant members in these protests.

The organizers of these "OccupyMovements" claim that they are modeling their protests after the recent "Arab Spring" in Egypt, yet ignores the fact that the "Arab Spring" protestors admittedly model their movement after Martin Luther King.

If the white middle class youth, out protesting on Wall Street, make the same mistakes as their parents, in denying and not addressing the historically entrenched injustices in this nation, and fail at actively welcoming and including the communities of color, this movement will fail.

The hypocrisy of their cries of "justice and freedom" will fall on death ears. The criminal banksters will continue their plans to wipe out their middle class privilege and turn them all into feudal slaves, as were their ancestors.

If you don't desire or fail to include the Black and other minority communities on any significant level within this movement, or continue to deny their dignity, I can assure you that you will meet them as your neighbors in the "high-tech cotton fields"

The choice is yours.

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Addendum:

Because the world, through the agency of the internet is watching, those who are wanting to learn the average American reaction (see comments below), and also read more about the history of the historically oppressed underclasses in America, below are some resources to aid you:

Slavery and the Making of America

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/slavery-making-of-america/

Slavery in New York--New York Historical Society:

"Slaves constructed Fort Amsterdam and its successors along the Battery. They built the wall from which Wall Street gets its name. They built the roads, the docks . . ."

www.slaveryinnewyork.org/about_exhibit.htm

New York Slave Law Summary and Record

http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/slave_laws_NY.htm

An 18th century slave market on Wall Street

http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/an-18th-century-slave-market-on-wall-street/

Slavery in New York: Uncovering the brutal truth

http://peoplesworld.org/slavery-in-new-york-uncovering-the-brutal-truth/

Lehman Bros. link to slavery

http://www.workers.org/2008/us/lehman_1030/

The Slavers of Wall Street: Investment Banks and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-slavers-of-wall-street-investment-banks-and-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-oguejiofo-annu/

Slave Profits and the Roots of the Wealth Gap

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0329-06.htm

Northern Profits From slavery

http://www.slavenorth.com/profits.htm

Other references:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Negro Population, 1790-1915 (Washington, D.C., 1918), 29, 53.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, (1975), Historical Statistics of the United States, (Washington, D.C.. 1975) 2:1168.

Carr, William H. A. (1964), The Duponts of Delaware, (Mead Co. 1964). Hedges, J.B. (1999), Browns of Providence Plantation, (Harvard University Press,1952).

Strouse, Jean (1999), Morgan, American Financier, (Random House NY, April 1999).

The Rittenhouse Trust Co., The Market Keeps Going, (Ibottson Associates, 2001). Robinson, Randall (2000), The Debt, (Penguin Putnam, Inc., NY, Jan 2000).