REMEBER, let us not FORGET!
Brown v. Board of Education 1954, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. NAACP’s anti-lynching campaign 1930, Charles Hamilton Houston 1929, Montgomery Bus Boycott 1956, Ella Baker, the grassroots leader whose activism dated from the 1930s and who was advisor to the students who founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), pointed out that the struggle was “concerned with something much bigger than a hamburger or even a giant-sized Coke.” Far more was at stake for these activists than changing the hearts of whites. When the sit-ins swept Atlanta in 1960, protesters’ demands included jobs, health care, reform of the police and criminal justice system, education, and the vote. “An Appeal for Human Rights.” Demonstrations in Birmingham in 1963 under the leadership of Fred Shuttles worth’s Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, which was affiliated with the SCLC, demanded not only an end to segregation in downtown stores but also jobs for African Americans in those businesses and municipal government. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The 1963 March on Washington, most often remembered as the event at which Dr. King proclaimed his dream, it was a demonstration for “Jobs and Justice.” disfranchisement and violation of the human rights of African Americans, including Dr. King’s nonviolent populism, Robert Williams’ “armed self-reliance,” and Malcolm X’s incisive critiques of worldwide white supremacy, among others. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Where Do We Go from Here?”; Robert F.Williams’, “Negroes with Guns”; and Malcolm X, The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was not concerned exclusively with interracial cooperation or segregation and discrimination as a character issue. Rather, as in earlier decades, the prize was a redefinition of American society and a redistribution of social and economic power.
My name is Is-Ra-El Baasha, and I come from a proud family that has been involved with Civil Rights for as long as I can remember. What motivates me as a representative for people of color is that I believe in a justice end to an injustice means. Allow me to be your VOICE for Equality & Justice.
LIST OF ISSUES
Identity & Knowledge
As African Americans, we are fighting a continuous struggle one which has no good result. Until we realize who we are truly, that we as a race have a history which is richer than all others, we cannot prevail. When someone says to you: "What happened to the slaves is simply a thing of the past, get over it." You as a descendant of slavery, brought from the land known to you and many others as South Africa, scattered all over the European continents, having your heritage, your identity, and your culture ripped from your very existence; should say to them: “History itself means it is a thing of the past, and no-longer apart of the present state, nor of the future tense. Well simply put, we are not a part of history when we are still been treated as our ancestors of the past. We are a part of a continuum. We are history in the making.
By: Learsi Baasha
Date: 07/19/2016
Time: 11:00am
Sovereignty, Unity, Equality, & Justice
Camille Cosby is an American television producer, author, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby. Camille Cosby wrote in her article, in the year 1994 saying: That African Americans right to vote will expire in the year 2007. That the voters’ rights act signed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson was just an ACT. It was not made a law. In 1982 Ronald Reagan amended the voters Rights Act for another 25 years. Which means in 2007 African Americans could lose the Right to vote! If you remember as I do the United States presidential election of 2000 was the 54th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000; between Republican candidate George W. Bush, and Democratic candidate Al Gore. It was during this election that African Americans were denied the right to vote. In fact the United States Constitution, actually say’s: that unless you are born of white skin, you are not a citizen of this country. It further say’s that African Americans are considered property of the state, and as with any property of said states, the in heritance of the states has the right to do whatever they deemed fit too and with their property. This is why there are very little to no convictions in killing an African American Male or Female. By: Learsi Baasha Date: 01/20/2016 Time: 4:55pm
Hebrews aka African Americans & Our Place in America:
My philosophy is:
We have been placed in a social experiment for the last 180 years, we have been psychologically and mentally beaten, forced to live in a desensitized environment of aggressive behavior, and made to believe that we cannot survive, in this continuous loop of bitter hatred, and that segregation is a bad idea. But I say to you, the door is open you can leave.
By: Learsi Baasha Date: 07/21/2016 Time: 2:13pm
In Closing:
It is my Theory:
Remember that change can only occur when we change our outlook, our state of mind, when we change our expectations, our beliefs in the judicial system, and hopes, when we change our environment and our status in which we live; when we change the constitution, and only then will they change. It is your, wishes, dreams and ideas, which I will be voicing. By: Learsi Baasha Date: 07/21/2016 Time: 02:56 pm
Police Brutality & the Criminal Justice System:
To mention the existence, and to discuss police brutality again, is like kicking a dead dog over and over, and telling it to wake up! Yes we are aware and have been aware of its existence for quite some time, although its existence too many of us is as new as receiving a speeding ticket for the first time. What needs to be said, and discussed here, is a solution to Police Brutality & the Criminal Justice System. As a race of people we march, we shout and we sing, but we as a race never lists demands. When so ever we are gathered together in a great number, and the media is present, we must address the state, and the country. This is where I come in, I need your help. We must come together as a people as they once did in the town hall and discuss a plausible solution of demands. Allow me to be your voice, allow me to address your concerns. My name is Is-Ra-El Baasha and I approve this message. Date: 07/19/2016 Time: 11:47am
The United States Constitution, what Does it actually say:
The Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4, 1776, stated "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal..." Yet the new nation declaring its independence permitted the continuation of the practice of slavery for people of African heritage - a practice that continued until the Civil War in the 1860s. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves held in the states, who were still fighting in the Civil War. After the War, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1865, abolished slavery everywhere in the United States, the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868, made the former slaves, and any other person born in the United States or naturalized, a citizen and required that all citizens be granted equal protection of the law. The Fifteenth Amendment, adopted in 1879, made it against the law to deny any citizen the right to vote because of his or her race or color or because he or she was formerly a slave. Despite the promises of these new laws, the former slaves and their descendants, along with other racial and ethnic minorities, did not receive equal treatment under the law. In fact, in 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that State governments could separate people of different races as long as the separate facilities were equal. This "separate but equal" doctrine lasted until 1954 when the Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in cases involving schools in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. Also in the 1890s, African-Americans were kept from exercising their right to vote by taxes, called "poll taxes", that had to be paid before a person could cast a vote and by tests given by voting registrars who had the power to pass or fail an applicant based on the color of his or her skin. Poll taxes and voting tests were finally outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. All information obtained is accredited to: Used for educational purposes only. Civil Rights: Law and History http://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/civil-rights-law-and-history.html Copyright © 2016, Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.