“BLACK HISTORY: THE LOWS/ HIGHS, THE BAD/GOOD, LEARN, REFLECT, TELL IT LIKE IT WAS & IS”
This is a painful yet a ‘must acknowledgment’ of our history (American History). Too many even now want to hide the past and present historical moments, and as usual, what is done in the dark will come out sooner or later in the light… This is my reason for writing this ‘brief’ article. I’m not pointing fingers at the ‘guilty’ or sitting in judgment’ yet; I will give these facts in hopes for a better future in 2025… our kids need this, and we certainly owe them that as we too become or have ‘selective memories’ and sing ‘happy days are here again’.
Let’s get REAL___those who lynch and kill with weapons DO NOT because of our skin is black/brown/mixed; they are insecure, ignorant of their own history, and frankly, DO NOT WANT socializing, dating, or much less -racial marriages but get this: go check out the BIBLE {prophets with slaves, the ‘haves and have nots.’ Opposites DO Attract…Check out YOUR DNA…The HUMAN RACE is and has been a melting pot of our beautiful ‘RAINBOW.’ The world’s population is this: the ‘Majority CHANGES to be the Minority and vice versa. L I F E CHANGES…so do people. IF you make it to the PEARLY GATES, color will not be an issue…ONLY ONE RACE …DEFINED by GOD’s CREATION. An in-depth detail of these ‘facts’ can be read/purchased on a 2025 calendar, “A HISTORY OF RACIAL INJUSTICE” Check out EJI.ORG for securing this calendar. NOTE: EJI stands for EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE, located 122 Commerce St. Montgomery, AL
Read about THE BLACK WALL STREET MASSACRE, THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT. These 2 events killed so many people for the same reasons. ‘Lord, Have Mercy’!!!
As Angela Davis said, “I can no longer accept the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
A FEW MOMENTS HAPPENED IN JANUARY:
1906, BUNK RICHARDSON, accused of raping a white woman and never was River/Etowah County… (relative of THE MONTHLY REPORTER NEWSPAPER’s CEO {Theresa Beverly}.
WILLIE JAMES HOWARD, a BLACK 15-year-old was lynched by three white men in Suwannee County, Florida, after one of the men accused Howard of writing a love note to his daughter. The 4th, 1960, the City of Montgomery, Alabama, announced it will remove seats, lock bathrooms, and turn off water fountains at its municipal airport rather than comply with a federal court order to desegregate.
1904, a mob of 50 white men lynched U.S. GENERAL LEE, a Black man, for allegedly knocking on the door of a white woman’s home in S.C.
1870, U.S. soldiers killed over 150 members of the BLACKFEET NATION, mostly women and children, in what became known as the BEAR RIVER MASSACRE–the largest massacre of indigenous people in present-day Montana.
1967, a Birmingham, AL deputy sheriff shoots and kills ROBERT LACEY, a Black man, while arresting him for failing to take his dog to the vet.
1956, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR’s house in Montgomery, AL, was bombed while he spoke at a mass meeting. 1964, LOUIS ALLEN, a witness to the murder of an NAACP activist by a white state legislator, was killed in MS.
SAY THEIR NAMES, HONOR THEIR LIVES; THEY ARE OUR PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLED TO LIVE AS AMERICANS, yet racism/prejudice, discrimination by bullying, verbal harassment, and negative personal thoughts killed them, but not their spirit Goals, for they, like ALL of us are GOD’s children and WE will not forget even when JUSTICE is proclaimed equally for ALL of us.
~SAY THEIR NAMES~
EMMETT TILL * BREONA TAYLOR
TRAYVON MARTIN MEDGAR EVERS
BETTIE JONES * JAMAR CLARK
KARRYN GAINES * PRINCE C. JONES
PEARLIE GOLDEN * RODNEY KING
BUNK RICHARDSON * JAMES CLARK
SANDRA BLAND * YVETTE SMITH
AIA GURLEY NATASHA McKENNA
ERIC GARNER DERRICK SCOTT
MICHAEL SABBIE GEORGE FLOYD
“I CAN’T BREATHE”
These are just a few of the MANY, (those we know about and those who we don’t know, mainly because the written/oral history events are still being swept under the cements, and now these cements/rugs are being brought into FOCUS!!!!)
May there be no more Sorrows:
May there be no more PAIN;
May there be NO MORE NAMES for these senseless acts of brutalities!!!
HOWEVER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
These names deserve to be remembered for their lives MATTERED!!!!
NO MORE NAMES UNTIL ALL BLACK PEOPLE
EVERYWHERE ON EARTH FINALLY KNOW PEACE.
Brenda Jelks-Hutchinson, a child of GOD
so were ALL of our brothers and sisters whose
lives matter.