Secretary-General Kofi Annan
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations
New York, NY 10017
Honorable Sir:
Deeply concerned about the increasingly vulnerable economic position of poor Americans, the Richard L. Kirksey Memorial Foundation commissioned a study to delineate the issues defining the current American human condition, in order to assess the needs of poor youth. The Foundation, dedicated to issues concerning America's young people, commissioned the study on recognizing a growing threat to fulfilling young peoples' most basic needs for survival, a quality education, and appropriate training for gainful employment opportunities. Current trends in the United States' political climate, with the adoption of an increasingly conservative national viewpoint and the implementation of policies to address the economically disadvantaged, prompted the Foundations' request that a study be commissioned. In its membership's opinion, the current political climate is especially disturbing because of the historic economic disparities in the United States.
The report found that disproportionate to their numbers in the census population, the black youth endures the highest rates of unemployment, poverty level, number of incarcerations without hope of rehabilitation, victimized more frequent by police brutality, unresolved hate crimes, criminal injustices in sentencing, and more. This amalgamation of conditions in any other country would be quickly recognized and labeled by the world as apartheid. Worse, in general, blacks are perpetually regulated to the bottom of the economic ladder working for minimum or devalued wages to fuel a political economy based on racial inequalities in the market for human capital. These imbalances unduly victimizes black youth, presenting what the Foundation sees as a textbook case of genocide that needs to be closely examined. In keeping with its goal of improving conditions for young people, the Foundation is enclosing a copy of this engaging report, and urges your full support. The persistent conditions this report highlights cry out for global justice.
Crucial to comprehending the plight of black youth, this microeconomic analysis of black life is the first scientific examination of the economic dynamics of the United States' market for black human capital. It reveals the deplorable socio-political and economic disparities defining black existence in America. Because the report critically paints the seedy side of the United States, it goes undisclosed in the mainstream media. While the global community is provided sanitized lies colored with the faces of wealthy blacks, movie, entertainment and sports stars, comfortable church "leaders" and elected local, state and federal officials, the real story of the black human condition in the United States goes largely untold by a censored and compromised Press. As the report illustrates, the current economic condition of America's blacks justifies the insistence reparations are required to overcome historic economic disparities. The enclosed study exposes the socioeconomic and political system used to deny blacks equal access to the economic mainstream. It explains why blacks are unable to positively influence their racial economic welfare. As technological changes and globalization of economies alter the face of future labor market needs, the conservative religious movement in the United States places blacks at an even greater risk of being pushed further down it's economic ladder. As conditions for blacks as a whole worsens, black youth are pushed completely out of the economic welfare equation guaranteeing perpetual poverty and creating conditions invoking genocide.
The Foundation wholeheartedly supports the study's findings and recommends the remedy of reparations to insure the threat to the black man's survival in the United States is removed. This long overdue appeal for global intervention is certain to find resistance among those wishing to maintain a dubious status quo. Given the country's conservative political climate, the Foundation seeks your assistance in redressing the gross inequities this report highlights; its members implore your good office's support in bringing this matter before the International Court of Justice. The Foundation firmly believes the recent commercial efforts, aimed ostensibly at healing the national wounds, will not produce the substantive results required to save the black man from genocide. Daily, U.S. policy is influenced by those who would prefer the country dismiss the historic dehumanization of slavery from its collective memory and conscience to continue its profitable legacy on the backs of the poor, minorities, and especially blacks. In no way does the Foundation apology for the tone of the report, it honestly looks at the poor and black microeconomic dilemma, and sheds light on the macroeconomic consequences of public policy. Indeed, while the report is filled with the comic relief of political satire, which is interspersed with bits of sadness, there is more than sufficient economic statistical analysis to support the report's premise: The United State's economy is driven by socioeconomic and political theory based on a remnant of slavery that negatively impacts black economic growth and development, creating conditions of genocide demanding macroeconomic reparations. This study empirically justifies the Foundation's call for reparations to close an institutionalized economic gap. Reparations are necessary to effect any semblance of economic parity in a high tech global political economy founded on economic exploitation.
With urgency, the Foundation asks due speed be given this pressing matter. As conditions in the United States worsens daily, younger and younger black children are being classified as adults and sent to prisons, murdered psychologically and physically in the streets and crippled for life economically. For black youth today, the Foundation honorably requests your assistance in ending this threat to civilization. Honorable sir, I know you will agree that in the final analysis, high tech genocide poses a global threat!
Sincerely, Yohannes Sharriff Smith
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