Who in the world is civil?
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The Civil Rights Movement was originally founded on the effort to
establish the civil rights of the black people of America. Meaning
that blacks were to get equal treatment and benefits as their
Caucasian counterparts, i.e., business, familial, social, economic,
political, and etc. With all the marches, written speeches, and picket
signs, what has this “movement” really accomplished?
The fights and degradations of our forefathers so many years ago
are being swept away as a mere display of showmanship to
publicize the violent treatment African Americans were receiving in
previous unrecorded encounters. We have spokespersons that go
up to podiums just to spew out eloquent politically correct words
not to offend our oppressors. They must keep up the facade of
appearing to be sympathetic to the daily treatment of our people
while shaking hands and appearing to Galas in their three-piece
suits that cost thousands of dollars to “smooth out” the
contingencies of how the white supremacist power structure can
maintain power while throwing a few crumbs to “black-owned”
charities as to say “We Care”.
There were 4 characteristics that were highlighted during the PostReconstruction period, which were:
1. Racial segregation. By law, public facilities and government
services such as education were divided into separate "white" and
"colored" domains.[8] Characteristically, those for colored were
underfunded and of inferior quality.
2. Disenfranchisement. When white Democrats regained power,
they passed laws that made voter registration more restrictive,
essentially forcing black voters off the voting rolls. The number of
African-American voters dropped dramatically, and they no longer
were able to elect representatives. From 1890 to 1908, Southern
states of the former Confederacy created constitutions with
provisions that disfranchised tens of thousands of African
Americans and U.S. states such as Alabama disfranchised poor
whites as well.
Now the marches and meetings were
“supposedly” organizing various
socio-political groups to lobby and
litigate
against
the
White
Supremacist power structure to
plead on behalf of the broken and
forgotten African Americans to allow
them to take part of the proverbial
American pie so they are able to
partake in the nation they helped
build. By seeing all of the
characteristics listed in the above
paragraph,
you
must
ask
yourself…Have all the efforts of the
Civil Rights movement make a dent
in the power structure that our
forefathers fought so hard to break?
We
still
have
predominantly
“minority” neighborhoods within
major cities all across America. A lot
of our Latino and African American
brothers and sisters are still being
wrongfully imprisoned and when “let
out’ still cannot obtain a job or go to
the polls to vote on a candidate that
meets the needs of the individual due
to a felony record thanks to the
American Judiciary system. And let’s
not mention the rampart unlawful
violence that still encroaches our
brown and black brothers and sisters
that is being televised and recorded
by the American public to expose the
injustice while our judiciary system
terminates
the
cases
on
“unsubstantial evidence”.
3. Exploitation. Increased economic oppression of blacks, Latinos,
and Asians, denial of economic opportunities, and widespread
employment discrimination.
4. Violence. Individual, police, paramilitary, organizational, and
mob racial violence against blacks (and Latinos in the Southwest
and Asians in California).
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