Independence Weekend, 2011

Peace and Blessings! Best greetings! To you and your entire loved one on this independence weekend here in the USA. And to those of you celebrating the holiday, I ask that you be mindful of the historic consequences of the occasion as it relates to Africans enslaved in the Americas. Do not fail to comprehend that on gaining independence on July 4, 1776 Africans were still enslaved in the USA on that historic date. Africans were not freed from physical bondage in the USA until President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Act and it became the law of the land in 1865. If you did not know I am here to remind you that your representatives were still chained to the plantations for 89 years. During that period black messiahs such as Harriet Tubman and William Still were engaged in a program of freeing hundreds of Africans in America. The process is known as the underground railway. That ought to be the significance of the 4th of July to the African-Americans. You should never forget that reality.
More over the masses of the African-Americans have not experienced the American dream. It is still a nightmare not withstanding the fact that a Kenyan-American Obama is currently the head of state of the USA. It is high time the honeymoon is over and critical analyses are made of the Obama administration as it regards to black life and culture in the USA during the last nine hundred days. I think Obama must be supported for a second term in office. It is likely that he will be able to go all out to promote real change and achieve tangible results which would enhance the lives of the vast majority of the American people. I am cognizant that the Obama administration cannot appease everyone in four years in office. Certainly, that is not enough time to really facilitate the necessary changes. More over our people need to embrace that stark reality. The need is for our people to manage their financial resources in a more meaningful manner with would promote development and improved standards of living. Our people need to tighten their belts and curb unnecessary spending, thereby aiding and abetting the future generations of our people. It is clear to me that Africans in America have tremendous financial resources, but however, they simply refuse to transfer such into progressive directions.
The philosophy of Africans-in-America and nonwhite must be restricted to poverty and ignorance is as ignoble as the ridiculous claims that there is such a thing as Greek philosophy. It is high time poor people here in the USA wage all out battles to derail the practice of hopelessness which provides the labor upon which the industrial prison complex functions. The emphasis must be placed on education and not appearance and on substance not style. Far too many of our young people have been lost from the womb to the tomb to the clutches of the systems of law enforcement, justice and correctional departments here in the USA, and indeed in numerous nations in the recent past. Our young people are criminalized instead of educated to live productive and responsible lives. Thus, instead of opportunities our young people are forced into the practice of self reliance and restricted income. I do not understand why the American society is still hell-bent in wasting such a major portion of its human resources. Certainly, there are numerous competent social scientists in the USA. Therefore, they must realize those wasting human resources do not promote national development. Such a condition has similar effects as brain drain in the so-called developing nations.
Now that I have appealed to your consciousness, I would be remiss if I did not ask you to be very careful, do not consume alcohol beverages and operate motor vehicles this holiday weekend and on any other occasion for that matter. Let the focus be on empowerment not wasting whatever resources you do have. Most of all be vigilant, be safe and have a blessed weekend, bonding with your loved ones whatever you do, I wish that your experiences be enlightening, rewarding. And most all acquire a sense of self-esteem necessary to forge and overcome all the man-made barriers which are placed in your way to achieve empowerment of our people formerly enslaved on earth and also to apply the lessons of the past to promote unity and development of our people everywhere on earth in this time and the in the not too distant future.