The
Atlanta Vibe: Railing Against Hypocrisy!
The slave history of African Americans severed all connections that established our place in the world. After freedom, the next casualty was knowledge. Legally denied the right to learn skills, such as reading and writing, slaves lived in a Dark Age. Until emancipation, coupled with the end of the Civil War, they were beasts of burden. Unshackled, the thirst for knowledge and the willingness to endure any hardship to acquire knowledge, freedom fueled a renaissance, which changed the fortune of former slave in less than twenty years.
Always having been free, whites that could not compete with the aggressive drive to achieve of former slaves used their political power to stop the freed slave's advances. Democratic Presidential hopeful Rutherford B. Hayes, as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, helped force blacks into a state of semi-slavery by agreeing to end Reconstruction in 1887. Hayes= deal with the devil helped whites forced slave descendants back into another Dark Age called segregation. Federal, state, and local governments passed laws mandating second class citizenship for all blacks residing in the United States of America. Not only did segregation laws deny blacks their civil rights, they denied them their human rights. Even though African Americans pay taxes, as though they are full citizens, we are only granted second class access to education and economic opportunities.
The government's response to white demands to block slave descendants' second attempt to gain full citizenship following Brown v Board of Education in 1954 was institutionalized racism. White Americans refused to honor the right of full citizenship granted by the Supreme Court, and used the power of the state to defy court edicts. State and local governments used institutions to continue segregation until they could change the makeup of the Supreme Court. In the 1982 election, Ronald Reagan and George Bush made the same deal as Rutherford B. Hayes in 1887. They stacked the Supreme Court, as well as, lower courts with judges who agreed to reverse rulings granting African Americans full citizenship. Reagan and Bush's actions are tantamount to using the Supreme Court to suspend Constitutional protection for African Americans.
The Atlanta Vibe will not Ago quietly into that good night." We will not quietly endure another Dark Age. Our voices will not fall silent about being denied constitutional and human rights. It is obvious, the world fears America's military and economic might. Like Europe before Hitler, the world has chosen to turn deaf ears and blind eyes to unending genocide against African Americans going back to slavery. Even if no one will speak up about America's hypocrisy, we will rail alone against its tyranny. The Atlanta Vibe will not let the world sleep peacefully as long as hypocrisy and genocide reigns in America.
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