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So… People in America who are descended from African Slaves; let me share with you why the USA will NEVER REALLY change…and how we have been duped or bamboozled, if you will.
We (Black People) fight for INCLUSION and ACCEPTANCE, and it is labeled “EQUALITY”. What should we have been fighting for? EQUITY. We are rewarded for ASSIMILATION into society and ACCEPTING, or even promoting the American ideals of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Notice, there is no mention of “equal” in these so-called inalienable rights. Thomas Jefferson penned the words: “All men are created equal”, but CLEARLY he wasn’t intending those words for me.
Plessy vs. Ferguson: “Separate but Equal”…when there was no equal, only separate, our fight and focus was misguided onto being “equal”.
Never is there a mention of equity or equitable compensation, so how can we be equal, if the experiences are not equal? Equal could and should be recognized as EQUITY in the America built on the backs of a free labor force.
Think back if you will, to hearing or reading the “insult”, “Go Back to Africa”. The reason it may have bothered you is two-fold: 1) You have no sense of cultural or ethnic belonging. You AIN’T American (no one that looked like you wrote the Constitution or Declaration) and you are not REALLY African, and may have taken your information and learnings about Africa from someone who might have even been a member of a group of people who wanted you to head on back to where you originated. ‘You were a slave and before a slave, you came from some undeveloped, God-forsaken place that ultimately, though slavery was bad, at least you ended up here in “Murica”’. Be grateful. 2) You were always taught that the civil rights struggle was able to somehow make you “equal”…but how could people tell you to leave, if you really belonged and you identified that within your history lies people who helped (more than others) to build America. Yet, equity and wealth are seemingly beyond our grasp, save for a few who entertain.
How does one have equal rights and equal claim without equal equity? Black people’s fight in the USA was for the wrong thing. Never chase equality, as that is GOD-given. Chase equity, build wealth, invest in the purchase of policy. Shout Out to #MuhammadAli
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