The Truth About America

1492 "The New World" (America) was "discovered" by Christopher Columbus an Italian explorer.

1499 Another Italian Explore, Amerigo Vespucci who explored the area this expedition reached the mouth of the Amazon River and explored the coast of South America. He made other voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, and made calculations and maps. He was supposedly the first to identify New World of North and South America as separate from Asia. (Until he died, Columbus thought he has reached Asia.) From his name is where we get the name America.

* The truth about it is the land now known as America had been inhabited by people now commonly referred to as Native Americans for centuries before that time. These peoples are a mixture of people from the continent of Asia who either sailed over the Pacific Ocean or walked across the strip of land between Russia and Alaska to settle here.

*During the 1500's On the west coast Spain built catholic missions and towns by Native American slave labor. On the east coast England established towns and businesses with African and Native American slave labor. The French did the same as the English in the mid-west..

1578 England went to war with Spain resulting in the government of Spain leaving North America (USA).

Prior to that time all countries participated in some type of slavery. Slaves were aquired through war and debt. In cases of war it was used to bring people under teh control of the new government. It was also used so that thier property could be seized and to cut down on the numbers of the opposition. They sold them and sent them away to foreign lands. In the case of debt If some one had made a loan or property contract with a rich person the grantor could enslave the signee and or his family to collect on the debt.

At first other Africans were selling their own African slaves or rival tribes into slavery. Then most parts of the continent of Africa were conquered by Europeans. Europeans colonized major portions of Africa in order to harvest its natural resources (oil, gold, ivory, etc). And of course its other natural resource strong hard workers - slave labor.

So the race was on for the survival fo the fitest.

Italians and Catholics were major contributors to the African slave trade. After years of Greco-Roman dominance. The other European countries began to take their own slaves, to cut out the middle man so to speak. Europes major advantage was the invention of guns.

It was about free labor obtained cheaply. When peoples' consciouses began to get to them, religious leaders and political leaders began to justify African slave labor by saying that they, Black Africans were cursed and were not real people. To support their claims they twisted the Holy Christian Bible for economic gain.

The brutal institution of the African-American slave trade continued for 400 years. During that time the Native American Indians and African-Americans that were enslaved, were forbidden to practice their own religions and were also forbidden to speak there own languages. While being taught twisted Christianity.

Therefore Europe gained a new avenue for economic gain, and an avenue to aliviate the over crowding issues in its countires through the efforts that were made to conquer the Americas and Africa.

1863 on January 1, the Emancipation Proclamation a law to abolish slavery in states envolved in the war was issued by Abraham during the Civil War.

1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the entire United States.

1868 The Fourteenth Amendment, declared any person born in the United States was a citizen and is entitled to equal protection of the law.

1879 The Fifteenth Amendment, granted all citizens the right to vote.

1896, the country took a turn backwards and decided that the states could allow people of different races to be ”seperate but equal”. It ended in 1954 because it gave way to blacks being given the inferior or lesser quality facilities and materials.

1955, On December 1, in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks, a member of the NAACP took her seat on the bus in the front of the bus. At that time the South was still segregated, whites thought that African-Americans should ride in the back of the bus, but also give up their seats to any white person who wanted to sit. Ms. Parks was arrested and taken to jail for refusing to give up her seat. December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. a 381 day boycott of the public buses buses. The end result was desgregation of all public facilities.

This led to :

1964 The Civil rights act of 1964 again states that all people are created equal and should have equal access to public places.

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1965, On August 6 President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act which King sought,. It authorized federal the end of devices that hindered African Americans from registering to vote.

The truth about it is that African-Americans are the founders of the civil rights movement and it should be stated so in these laws. Every time African Americans have protested and lobbied to make these laws, Congress passes the laws in a generalized form to include all races, creeds and both genders. African Americans are entitled to have protected status like the Native American Indian. Because people of all walks of life get to enjoy equality in America at the expense of the African Americans. For example

1963 Police arrest King and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham, Ala., then turn fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers. Medgar Evers, NAACP leader, was murdered on June 12 . On Sept. 15, Four girls were killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. 1965 Malcolm X is murdered on Feb. 21, 1965. Three men are convicted of his murder. 1968 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., unleashing violence in more than 100 cities. 1992 The first massive racially based riot in years erupted in Los Angeles and other cities after a jury acquits L.A. police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, an African American. African-American leaders reported to the government that the riots were signs of frustration and opression. The government tried to curve black angst by making more funds and programs to aid in education, employment and housing. These programs were made available to just blacks, no of course not, the programs funds and assistance goes to all "disadvantaged" persons of all ethnic groups and sorts. The question is are African Americans in need getting their fair share? Or do all African-Americans share in needs?

America ..."The land of the free, the home of the brave or the land of the sleeze and the home of the slave!

The truth about it is Greco-Roman society is about the survival of the fitest. Therefor all people need to wise up and fight for and fend for their own or be overtaken. The time for thinking that you are getting over is over. Quit waiting on hand outs and fight. Enough is enough. And that's enough said.

Brrought ot you by the B.E.S.T (The Black Empowerment Society of Today!)