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Consider what Frederick Douglass said back in 1857: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
PARAGRAPH 13 of 18 - See Frederick Douglass's entire speech at this link: "IF THERE IS NO STRUGGLE, THERE IS NO PROGRESS"
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress Many people who were not African Americans cheered our courage and joined civil rights era protests in person and contributed financially to fight oppression. We walked arm in arm, forming human chains when we marched. We used to understand that we are our brothers' keepers. Unity was our strength against outlaw lawmen who were armed and dangerous, and no marcher faced fascists alone. Civil rights that African Americans won in the 1960s are under a heavy onslaught of congressional bills today that curtail freedom for everyone, black, white and other. Decades ago, police used guns, batons, water hoses and vicious dogs to enforce illegal injunctions against peaceful protest. That has not changed, but we have.
PARAGRAPH 14 of 18 - The AP article named in paragraph 1 of 18, "Blacks' Economic Gains WIPED OUT in Downturn," shows that change is a backward motion so far. Unfortunately, African Americans lost something more precious than economic well-being over the last four decades. We lost self respect and our sense of community. We forgot how to make demands we were willing to back up with consumer boycotts that required sacrifices and even our lives if that was the price for dignity and freedom. Malcolm X said, "Freedom by any means necessary!" Perhaps racism has been undercover for so long that we forgot the extreme measures supremacists will undertake in order to debase and misuse a people when savagery is not challenged by the people being victimized. Below are four(4) video reminders of how far African Americans came by courageously standing together against wrongdoing. During the civil rights era, traitors were planted among us to curtail our justice quest and betray the dream. But nothing dissuaded us from our mission. But rather than going forward and building on yesterday's victories, we have regressed. Forty years ago, suppressors would not have essentially kidnapped and secretly murdered a handicapped black man like my brother, Larry Neal. Like Jim Crow days, murderers have terrorized and censored our family for years because we ask for records and accountability about that death. African Americans and outraged liberal whites would have demanded justice in the 1960s, but now we are a nation of sell-outs and cowards. (See Wrongful Death of Larry Neal at
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com ) In 2012, scores of unarmed black men were already killed under the color of law, and we model hoodies and object to the one death that oppressors' media and plantation overseers tell us to protest.
PARAGRAPH 15 of 18 - One of my favorite things about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the way he restated the Word of God. The Bible commands that people stand up for the voiceless, the poor, and people who are appointed to destruction in Proverbs 31:8-9. Dr. King said, “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” Apathy is inexcusable, and silence did not save the quiet Jews in Nazi Germany.
PARAGRAPH 16 of 18 - Let me share something I learned about myself during the nine years of my justice quest: I may be "co-dependent." Like some women do not give up on abusive husbands, I have not given up on America. I have been told repeatedly by officials that I am "immaterial" as a black person who lacks wealth, and being a female makes me even less significant, it appears. But I still love America and want to help my country keep the promises that she made on paper (MLK). I believe promises inherent in the Gettysburg Address, the U.S. Constitution, and the Pledge of Allegiance can be made applicable to all citizens. I understand that the promises in America's historic documents have never been fulfilled equally for all people yet, but that is something for us to pray about and peacefully unite to make a reality. Many moral people in every generation work for that, and you and I should, also. Let us either leave while the borders are still open or continue to pray, "God bless America with liberty and justice for all," then strive together to realize that goal. Help us to tell leaders that people who love democracy are not the ones who need "re-education camps."
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Advising people to peacefully resist oppression is taboo again. (There are nine(9) links in this article, four(4) embedded videos, one(1) photograph and eighteen(18) numbered paragraphs). I list the contents of my articles to dissuade surreptitious editing and deletions of selected text by a censorship team that continually violates my freedom of press rights. Cyberstalkers censor my work in large part because their employers want to prevent this veteran nonviolent warrior from inspiring blacks with the mindset that led to Jim Crow's serious wounds in the 1960s and '70s when we repeatedly shouted slogans like "I AM A MAN" and "Say it loud; I'm black and I'm proud." Pride and fortitude are contradictory to our intended New World Order purpose, which is slavery.
PARAGRAPH 18 OF 18 - It is time for some of us to remember, and younger African Americans must learn, to apply the resolve we had when sang the protest song at video number 1 of 4 below: "AIN'T NOBODY GONNA TURN ME AROUND. It is on YouTube by Sweet Honey in the Rock at link
http://youtu.be/c5Z1trynEHs . That historic song is followed by two(2) Tulsa riot videos - Part 1
http://youtu.be/E70lf8jGr-A and Part 2
http://youtu.be/bS_uKhdg2ng . The fourth video is a montage of Dr. King photos, which are also on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/B6_0nPM4fxc . I posted these four videos to remind blacks of whose human rights are violated most blatantly and brutally in America. Conscious African Americans and everyone who love liberty must fight CONCENTRATION CAMPS and other encroachments that threaten freedom. Please share this article with your friends and groups, and read more articles in the blog which you can select from the index on the left margin of FreeSpeakBlog which is online at
http://FreeSpeakBlog.blogspot.com . Join the online march for human rights in America no matter what race you are, but especially African Americans. It is right to disobey unjust, inhumane laws. Every human rights quest copies the world's greatest human rights advocate who gave us one simple rule that would resolve most problems: "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU." See a final statement after the four(4) embedded videos below.
