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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Let me educate the #BlackLivesMatter crowd...!


First and foremost let us all jump into the Delorean and take a short trip 'Back to the Future'  


First stop 17th century Colony of Virginia: Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man? Yes indeed Here’s something you won’t read about in the US history books.
The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves. 

Anthony Johnson (BC 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia. 
Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.
Sometime after 1635, Antonio and Mary gained their freedom from indenture. Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson. SEE: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/02/father-of-us-slavery-was-black-man.html  for the full story! 

Second stop...The southern states after the civil war1877-1960's Civil Rights movement! The Jim Crow laws and school segregation laws were enacted by the democratic party of the South...Then and Now: After the Civil War, the Democratic Party in the South was the party of white supremacy. Now, African Americans form the party's most loyal base of support.
  









 Third stop...1960's Civil rights movement: Republican President Eisenhower ended school segregation enforced desegregation:  
Blacks took matters into their own hands. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was determined to overturn the judicial doctrine, established in the court case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, that segregation of black and white students in schools was constitutional if facilities were "separate but equal." That decree had been used for decades to sanction rigid segregation in the South, where facilities were seldom, if ever, equal.

Blacks achieved their goal of overturning Plessy in 1954 when the Supreme Court -- presided over by an Eisenhower appointee, Chief Justice Earl Warren -- handed down its Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The Court declared unanimously that "separate facilities are inherently unequal," and decreed that the "separate but equal" doctrine could no longer be used in public schools. A year later, the Supreme Court demanded that local school boards move "with all deliberate speed" to implement the decision.

Eisenhower, although sympathetic to the needs of the South as it faced a major transition, nonetheless acted quickly to see that the law was upheld. He ordered the desegregation of Washington, D.C., schools to serve as a model for the rest of the country, and sought to end discrimination in other areas as well.
He faced a major crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Just before implementation of a desegregation plan calling for the admission of nine black students to a previously all-white high school, the governor declared that violence threatened, and posted Arkansas National Guardsmen to keep peace by turning the black students away. When a federal court ordered the troops to leave, the students came to school, only to encounter belligerent taunts. As mobs became hostile, the black students left.

Eisenhower responded by placing the National Guardsmen under federal command and calling them back to Little Rock. He was reluctant to do so because federal troops had not been used to protect black rights since the end of Reconstruction, but he knew he had no choice. And so desegregation began with soldiers standing in classrooms to ensure the rule of law.

The moral to the story is why do blacks continue supporting the democratic party who keeps them in slavery via unemployment,slums  and welfare programs? It just baffles the mind folks!
May I suggest the movement spend more time researching facts before they go off and blame conservatives/police for all that ails them!

One can only lead a mule to water but can't make it drink ...please do yourselves a favor and spend more time on education than protesting and rioting!

And just for the record #ALL LIVES MATTER   #PERIOD

 

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