We came to these shores in August 1619, to Jamestown Virginia, captured and bound.
We began this new way of life by being shackled and chained to the bottom of ships, simmering in our own waste, our babies being born in the most deplorable conditions imaginable, in the most inhumane way. Very soon sharks learned to follow these ships with full knowledge that bodies were regularly tossed from these ships due to dumpings or suicides, to…
being… sold on blocks for less than the prices of animals, to…
buck-breaking, and rapes of men, women, and children, to…
the selling of our precious children from coast to coast, to…
public floggings, to…
feet amputations, to…
the unlearning of who we were, to…
baby alligator baits, to…
human zoos, to…
baby heads used as golf target practice, to…
lynches, to…
cotton-picking from sun-up to sun-down, to…
the dehumanization process of cooning (TV sambo characters), to…
the Oklahoma and Rosewood Riots, to…
Jim Crow laws, to…
segregation (separate but not equal), to…
red-lining, to…
the ineligibility for the GI bill and other government loans, to…
lack of decent education, to…
land stealing, to…
the terrorization of the KKK and other white supremacist groups, to…
chaining to railroad tracks, to…
the assassination of all those who attempted to educate us and stand up for our rights (Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Marcus Garvey,
Stephen Darby, and many others), to…
no males allowed in the homes if government assistance was being received, to…
the planting of drugs in our communities by the “special agents”, to…
crack addictions & crack babies, to…
the soaring population of the prison industry, to…
the 1994 3 strikes law, to…
gangsta rap, to…
the demoralization of our women and girls (b*tch, ho), to…
witchcraft/the occult in our music, to…
crates of guns (containing high-powered, sophisticated weapons) mysteriously being placed in our neighborhoods, to…
drive-by shootings, to…
the dumbing down of school curriculums, to…
vaccinations and autism in black boys, to…
the effeminization of the black male (through prison and music), to…
rapes in prison, to…
sagging pants, to…
single female-run households, to…
no black male role models, to…
genocide, to…
abortions, to…
the separation of the black male/black female relationships through the agenda of interracial relationships, to…
Aids, sicknesses, mental illness, high blood pressure, diabetes, to…
the full and total commitment, admiration, and allegiance to our oppressor.
400 YEARS…TO: The great awakening, to a true surrender to 2nd Chronicles 7:14 (“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”), to True Repentance, to the restoration of our role as leaders, to obedience to
The Most High Yah (God) Forever And Ever, Amen.
By: Janella Barner, daughter of Betty Henderson Gibson
