For over 400 years, two-hundred-forty-four (244) of those years in the United States alone, we of Diaspora, men, women, boys and girls have been physically and mentally raped, tortured, abused, debased, treated unjustly and unfairly. We have been excluded from our inalienable rights; deemed 3/5th human, imprisoned, murdered, ripped from the security of family units.
You name it they've done it to us. They stripped us of our spirituality, our culture and molded us into slaves and bondmen to this day. They have stolen our lands and forced us to work for free with IOU's that were never honored. We fought in their wars with the promise of land that we never received. We were forced back into a vicious cycle of tenant farming only to be hungry and owing for the work done.
Oh say can you see??? Oh, say can you see??? O, say can you see the perpetual mental trauma and intentional damage you inflected upon Nations of peoples of Diaspora; of African descent?
You have brainwashed, coerced, and programmed us. You broke down the institutions of our Ancestors and replaced them with teachings that forced us into an inferior way of life, then called us savages. We were forcibly coerced and corralled into ghetto and tenement slums; you give away what was rightfully ours to redevelopment projects that paid and housed immigrants.
You destroyed and burned our businesses and financial institutions and thriving neighborhoods then denied us loans to rebuild. You distributed your drugs into our neighborhoods to our children to take and sell only to be jailed. You ravished and watered down our pure blood line to propagate and secure yours.
Now you have audacity to tell us to prove who we are and where we came from !!! You have audacity to say that we are violent, while denying culpability for what your Ancestors have done to us! You continually proclaim, "I am not raciest"; "It wasn't us" who did those things to you people, yet perpetuate your systems of "Industrialized Slavery" and "Institutional Racism"! All the while your living and enjoying the comforts provided by us and our Ancestors sacrifices, blood, sweat and tears, while denying us the same.
You ask why Reparations?
O say can you see??? O say can you see what you've done to a mighty people who fought so gallantly for our and your freedom?
"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, that the havoc of war and the battle's confusion a home and a Country should leave us no more?Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, and the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!"
O say cant you see? Restitution must be made! Reparations must be paid.
El Ahora El Bey
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