Many years ago while doing research, I ran across the narrative
of a most profound meeting held at the White House, between president Lincoln
and a delegation of five, free black ministers. In that meeting, Lincoln made a
proposition that if acted upon, would have changed the lives of every Negro in
America immediately, for the better, if followed through with proper care. It
was perhaps the most important moment in my search for an understanding of
exactly how Coloreds, Negroes, Mulattos, and Blacks came to this state of ruin
today, in a country that would have moved Heaven and earth to relocated them
somewhere else, 151 years ago.
Problem was, I could never remember the name
of the book where the story came from. We’re talking about the 1980s, before
Google. I actually had to spend hours upon hours in libraries pouring through
stacks of books to learn things. Today, Google, and guess what I found thanks
to The
'Great Emancipator' and the Issue of Race, Abraham Lincoln's Program of Black
Resettlement,
by Robert Morgan http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
I
found the narrative. I highly recommend you visit Robert’s site.
As always, I am simply going to copy/paste from
Robert’s work, and interject my own commentary. This is a little long, but
dramatically important:
“On August 14, 1862, Lincoln met with five
free black ministers, the first time a delegation of their race was invited to
the White House on a matter of public policy. The President made no effort to
engage in conversation with the visitors, who were bluntly informed that they
had been invited to listen. Lincoln did not mince words, but candidly told the
group
““You and we are different
races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any
other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this
physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race
suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffers from
your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it
affords a reason at least why we should be separated.
... Even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being
placed on an equality with the white race ... The aspiration of men is to enjoy
equality with the best when free, but on this broad continent, not a single man
of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you are
treated the best, and the ban is still upon you.
... We look to our condition, owing to the existence of the two races
on this continent. I need not recount to you the effects upon white men growing
out of the institution of slavery. I believe in its general evil effects on the
white race.”
See our present condition -- the country engaged in war! -- our white
men cutting one another's throats, none knowing how far it will extend; and
then consider what we know to be the truth. But for your race among us there
could not be war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you
one way or the other. Nevertheless, I repeat, without the institution of
slavery, and the colored race as a basis, the war would not have an existence.
It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated.””
An excellent site for black resettlement, Lincoln went on, was
available in Central America. It had good harbors and an abundance of coal that
would permit the colony to be quickly put on a firm financial footing. The
President concluded by asking the delegation to determine if a number of
freedmen with their families would be willing to go as soon as arrangements
could be made.”
‘Our race suffers from your presence among us;
even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on
an equality with the white race,’ really, and the Negro decided to stick around? So now it is one hundred and fifty one years later and Blacks are
still whining about being second-class citizens… go figure.
“What
about Barak Obama, he’s the first Black president of the United States of
America! Are you trying to say that’s not progress?” my ultra-liberal Black
associate exclaims. When you consider it’s the big corporations, bankers, and
anything that looks like a tax that benefits from our mixed-race president, I
wouldn’t call that progress, I prefer the word Coup’, in all it’s meaning an
import. My point is from Lincoln, to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney’s, 1857 majority
decision against Dred Scot;
“They had for more than a century before
been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate
with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far
inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and
that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery… He was bought
and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic,
whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion was at that time fixed and
universal in the civilized portion of the white race. It was regarded as an
axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of disputing, or
supposed to be open to dispute; and men in every grade and position in society
daily and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in
matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the correctness of
this opinion.”
you have to ask yourself; why didn’t the Negro just get the hell
out of America, and actually go back to Africa?
Think that’s an
outrageous question? Hmm…! The continent of Africa is where most of the world's
gold, silver, diamonds, uranium, a host of other precious metals, wildlife
(back in the day, before the white men), lush scenery, and resources that every
country on planet earth has been trying to get their hands on ever since the
first White men saw the richness and wonder of all she had to offer.
The only
problem; the land was crawling with savages—blacks—an infestation of sorts to the whites, that the daring invaders
had to eradicate if they wanted to rape her and make ga-zillions of dollars. The
land belonged to your direct
ancestors, Negroes. They were happy living as the unwashed, in harmony with
Mother Earth, the Great Creator, and saw living spirits in everything — the water, ants, trees, lions, tigers and
bears, oh, my… but they weren’t ready for the Dutch, the British, and
Missionaries.
“If we talk about education we have to educate ourselves, not with
Hegel or Plato or the missionaries who came to Africa with the Bible and we had
the land – and
when they left we had the Bible and they had the land.” Stokely Carmichael,
1966
Of course the
plan wouldn’t have worked unless they were able to convince leaders of various
tribes to betray other tribes and sell each other into slavery for money,
weapons, and trinkets. So they get snatched up, taken away, enslaved, and given
a new (false) religion, which incredibly, the Negro still clings to today. The
religion, I believe, is what kept them here, believing America would be for
them what the Promised Land was for the Hebrews.
When they had the chance to go back to their
homeland, taking with them all the technological understanding they gained
through hard work and labor, they decided to stay amongst a people who despised
and hated the very sight of a free “Negro,” in a land they would never truly be
accepted as equals.
“…your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us,
while ours suffers from your presence.”
This is President Abraham Lincoln. ‘We suffer by your very
presence,’ and he was being nice!
Going back to Africa would have been brilliant
idea. Whom do you think made the steel, to fight the Civil War? Negroes working
in steel mills north and south. Slave labor made the industrial revolution in
America possible. Negroes existed and served on every level of American
society, from the cotton fields to servants of the biggest corporations in
America, to the White House. Think of the conversations Negroes heard from businessmen
and diplomats from around the world? Think of the wealth of knowledge the Negro
gained in every field of manufacturing, the sciences, business, railroads,
architecture — knowledge that
could have been taken back to the one place on earth everybody else wanted to
be, except the American Negro.
They could have
used all the knowledge gained standing next to the power in America, to consolidate
and transform the continent of Africa into the super power it deserved to be,
taking control of its natural resources, while educating its people to bring them
into the 20th and 21st centuries. America — the world would have eagerly opened their
arms wide to embrace the former slaves, because there was money to be made. But
every step of the way, the one thing standing in the way of the Negro
succeeding on planet earth as a people, has been the betrayal of the people by
their leaders.
Now, 151 years later, stability never came to
the continent of Africa and the Negro/Black/Colored/Mulattos are still whining
with Oprah, about not being treated equally. Whether it’s Barneys or a gated
community, the message has never changed from day one; free Negroes are not
welcome.
They said, (Black people) with a so-called
Black president things would get better for the Negro. Little Negro children would
have something to aspire to: “One day, I can be president, just like Obama!” a
little Black boy prays on bended knees.
Hey kid, get used to the idea that the God
your people have been praying to for the last 400 years, isn’t your God at all.
Also get used to the idea that you’re being replaced. The new Negroes are just
across the boarder. They work for less, are happy to have jobs, never complain,
are family oriented, dependable, save their money, vote liberal, are very
polite — mostly Catholics (Church loves). And even though they can’t speak a word of English, at least
it’s a language.
Another thing kid, America is trying to figure
out what to do with all the Ebonicized G.L.F.P. (Gangsta Lifestyle Fantasy
Program) Black teens that definitely won’t have jobs of any substance in the
near future. This time, I guarantee a trip to Africa is off the table, and at
this point — they don’t want
to spend that much, not when they make more money putting you in prisons.
By, Herman Williams III
Special thanks to Robert Morgan
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