OUTLINE FOR SPEECH
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
“I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race. No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution….” I condemn it as an institution, as we all know that in America it was established for selfish and financial reasons, and not from a missionary motive,” Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1856-1915.
I. THE AFRICAN KINGS, PORTUGESE JEWS, SPANISH JEWS, SLAVE MERCHANTS – THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE - 1400
A. LABOR FOR THE RUM MARKETS – SUGAR CANE – COLONIAL SOUTH AMERCA, CARIBBEAN -1600, THE PLANTATION, BRAZIL, OVER 10,000 AFRICANS, MAKING SUGAR – THE DUTCH WEST AND EAST INDIA COMPANY -1621 TO MAKE MONEY IN THE NEW WORLD. SLAVES COULD BE PAID FOR WITH SUGAR SOMETIMES AT 300% PROFIT OR PAID FOR BY THE MONTH AT 3 TO 4% INTEREST.
B. COLONIAL NORTH AMERCIA – FIRST MAJOR SLAVE PORTS – NEW YORK , NEW PORT, RHODE ISLAND , PENNSYLVANIA
C. MY GREAT-GRAND FATHER WAS A SLAVE FROM
1843- 1865 – ALABAMA
1. MY FAMILY – FROM MANDINGOS TO
WELDON’S – THE EVOLUTION OF ONE
AMERCAN FAMILY
2. MY TRIP TO AFRICA – SENEGAL , BANJUL , GHANA , FREETOWN
D. THE LEGACY OF THE AMERICAN FAMILIES WHO
PROFITED FROM SLAVEY WAS NOT CONFINED
TO ONE RACE OF PEOPLE. SLAVERY WAS THE
ECONOMIC VEHICLE OF THE TIMES.
1. AMERICANS OF EUROPEAN DECENT
2. AMERICANS OF AFRICAN DESCENT
3. AMERICAN INDIANS
4. 400 YEARS
5. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF THE FORMER SLAVEHOLDERS
6. WRESTLING WITH THE TENTACLES THAT WON’T LET GO.
7. GOVERNMENT – EVERY 10 YEARS –SEPERATES BY RACE
8. THE MEDIA – TREATS AS SEPARATE RACES.
E. THE GHOST OF SLAVERY WILL BE WITH US FOR
A WHILE LONGER.
1. LEGACY IS STILL ENTANGLED IN OUR BODY POLITIC
2. OUR SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
3. DESTRUCTION OF A RACE OF PEOPLE CANNOT BE REPARIED IN 300 YEARS
4. AMERICAN PRISION POPULATION –BLACK MALES -14-29 -42% OF PRISON POPULATION
5. HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS RATE
6. DECLINING COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
F. THE HIDDEN AFRICAN SPIRITUAL HISTORY IN AMERICA
1. DISCOVERED – PERSONAL SPIRITUAL JOURNEY – TRAVEL ON EVERY CONTINENT
2. BOOKS I READ OVER THE YEARS
a. The Essential Talmud –Adin Steinsaltz.
b. Everyman’s Talmud by Abraham Cohen
c. The Torah – The Five Books of Mosses, by the Jewish Publication Society
d. The Qur’an by Abdullah Yusu Ali
e. The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra,
f. The Buddha, by Deepak Chopra
g. The Egyptian Book of the Dead by James Wasserman
G. THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD – BOMB EXPLODED IN MY BRAIN
a. Over 10,000 years ago
b. Seeds of spiritualism placed in the human mind by Africans, one of my ancestors.
c. Spiritual teachings received by humans –controlled by the ruling class.
d. The Mask of the spirit changes from cultural.
H. THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION IN THE WEST IS FILLED WITH AFRICAN SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS.
a. The Kemit people which means “black” in African language of North Africa
b. Kemit –Memphis
c. Kemit people early spiritual story tellers of the ancient world.
d. The name change – African world as a spiritual center of humanity was hidden.
I. THE ANCIENT AFRICAN PRIESTHOOD GAVE THE NAME OF SPIRIT AS “KA” WHICH MEANT “BREATH OF LIFE” – THE ANUK IS THE SYMBOL FOR THE BREATH OF LIFE CARRIED BY THE PHARAOH.
J. THE HEBREW PEOPLE – ONE GOD CONCEPT – AFRICANS HAD MANY GODS BUT ONLY ONE PHARAOH PUSHED THE ONE GOD CONCEPT.
K. OVER LAST 2000 YEARS, THE LIFE OF RABBI
JESUS TEACHINGS WAS USED TO CREATE
ANOTHER SPIRITUAL INSTITUTION.
L.THERE IS NO ACCIDENT THAT THE AFRICAN
AMERICAN’S LIFE JOURNEY IS ENTERTAWIN
WITH THE CHURCH TODAY.
M. IN CONCLUSION, THE GRAND CHILDREN AND
GREAT GRAND CHILDREN OF AFRICAN SLAVES
SOLD IN AMERICA
THE WAY TO KEEP AMERICA
NATIONS AMONG NATIONS. THE FIRST BEACON
OF LIGHT IN THE WORLD FOR HUMAN
FREEDOM
N.GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS BY BLACK INVENTORS:
a. x-ray machine
b. folding chairs
c. fireplace dampers,
d. farmers almanac
e. electrical resistors
f. street sweeper truck
g. sparks plugs
h. plow, rotary engine – train couplers
i. tube feeders used in hospitals
j. video home security system
k. disposal syringes
l. ultra violent cameras
m. laser induced fluorescence
n. blood plasma- transfusion
o. refrigeration
p. supercomputer
q. meat-food preservation process
r. ice cream methods
s. dry cleaning
t. wrench
u. automatic refrigeration for long haul trucks
v. pencil sharper
w. watercloset for railroads
x. nuclear electric power.
y. Auto safety brake, automatic gear shift
z. Auto directional signals
a. contact trolling system
b. clear air machine
c. lingo programmer for macromedia –shockwave –movies on computers
d. antiseptic sterilization for open heart surgery
e. red/green light traffic system
f. third rail technology
O. SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SPIRITUAL LEADERS, INVENTORS, BUSINESS LEADERS.
P. DR. LOUIS GATES – HAS EXPLAINED WHY AFRICAN AMERICANS COME IN MANY FACES.
A. 11 MILLION SLAVES TRADED
B. LESS THAN A HALF OF MILLION CAME TO AMERICA
C. 375 MILLON AMERICANS TODAY
D. 58% OF BLACK POPULATION HAVE 12.5% EUROPEAN ANCESTRY
E. 5% NATIVE AMERICAN
F. DNA TESTING – 30 TO 35 % - COME FROM A WHITE MALE IMPREGNATION OF A BLACK WOMAN.
G. BLACK AND WHITE DESIGNATION IS A POLICTIAL NECESSITY FOR DIVIDING AND CONQUERING A LABOR FORCE.
H. THERE ARE NO BLACK PEOPLE AND NO WHITE PEOPLE
I. THERE ARE ONLY PINK PEOPLE AND BROWN PEOPLE IN AMERICA
THE LEGACY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IS STILL BEING WRITTEN TODAY. DURING THE RECENT ELECTION OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF AMERICANS WAS PUT TO THE TEST. CAN THEY JUDGE BY THE CONTENTS OF SOMEONE’S CHARACTER OR WILL THEY STILL JUDGE BY THE COLOR OF SOMEONE SKIN?
