What is One Black Life Worth?
What is One Black Life Worth?
In the 1960s, when Black folk began to move, we had CORE, SNCC, the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panthers, and the Nation of Islam. All of these brothers and sisters were fighting for the liberation of Black people, but there in Washington, D.C, the government of America started plotting against our leaders and we lost Whitney Young off the coast of Africa under suspicious circumstances. They murdered Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They weakened the NAACP and the Urban League. Everything that fought for justice for us they tore it up and tore it down. I say add it up! America owes the Black man. Add it up! The way God looks at this thing, the present generation of Whites, they didn’t do this to us. The present generation of whites are innocent of what their grandfathers did, but they are in a privileged position because of what their fathers did and we are in a hell of a condition because of what their grandfathers did. The killing of our fathers and mothers after mating them like animals, then taking the children and naming us after the slave master, stripping us of our language, our God, our religion, and our minds. Add it up! Add it up! Think about it…the destruction of our families. A 17 year old civil rights demonstrator, defying an anti-parade ordinance of Birmingham, Al was attacked by a police dog on May 3, 1963. Every measure of human development and human progress demonstrates to us that we are living in two separate worlds. This current world is really just the same master and slave situation where we provide the labor for this country. 50% of Afro-Americans still live in the south. Redlining still occurs through gentrification, which puts Blacks in different residential areas. However, Blacks are not as segregated as they used to be. Purpose of preparing our people—the 40 to 60 million descendants of slaves here in North America.
