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A brief history of race relations of the past and the current situation for Muslims and Blacks in the       United States. 

 

  

Ever since '9-ll' and the series of events THAT HAPPENED ON THAT FATEFUL DAY has led to the seemingly never ending “wars against terror” on Muslims in which millions of purely innocent believers in ISLAM have died unjustifiable and unimaginable crimes against Muslims are the daily norm in the U.S such as:

 

·         The Burning and or urinating of al-Qur’an and disrespecting the name of ALLAH!!!!!

·         The vandalization of Masjids, Schools, Businesses etc

·         Demonic depictions of Prophet Muhammad in Western Art and literature etc.

·         Police spying in Masjids and planting immigrant Muslim informants (at the threat of deportation!)

          Daily death threats and unprovocted physical violence and murder of Muslims

·         The daily demonization of Islam and Muslims in Western media

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This behavior along  with the climate of religious and racial biasness has created the rapid rise of ‘Islamophobia’ a term created by the Western media in order to instill fear, hate and prejudice against Muslims living in Western Christian lands.

 

Here in the U.S Muslims are now harassed daily, with growing ill-treatment from the majority Christian populace. Muslim women have been targeted and unjustly harassed, threatened and shot to death, university students shot and killed for no JUSTIFIABLE reason at all, Muslim fathers getting attacked in broad daylight in front of their children, racial and religious profiling, and well documented spying by the police of Muslims throughout the U.S., job applications thrown in the trash with either “ethnic sounding” black or Muslim names etc.

 

So much of this morbid and un-ending racist behavior is all too familiar and historically paralleled exactly to what happened to the European Jews before their well recorded ‘Holocaust’ under the demonically inspired Nazi dictatorship of Germany under Adolph Hitler.

 

                                                                   The $57 million network fueling Islamophobia in the United States

This in-depth investigation conducted by the Center for American Progress reveals a small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts guiding an effort that reaches millions of Americans through effective advocates, media partners, and grassroots organizing. This spreading of hate and misinformation primarily starts with six key people and their organizations, which are sustained by funding from a clutch of key foundations.

                                http://themuslimvibe.com/current-affairs/analysis/the-57-million-network-fueling-islamophobia-in-the-united-s

 

                    Another Muslim woman was highly discriminated against and disrespected while flying on United Airlines in May, 2015:

“I am sitting on a United Airlines flight in the air 30,000ft above and I am in tears of humiliation from discrimination. The flight attendant asked me what I would like to drink and I requested a can of diet coke. She brought me a can that was open so I requested an unopened can due to hygienic reasons. She said no one has consumed from the drink, but I requested an unopened can. She responded, "Well I'm sorry I just can't give you an unopened can so no diet coke for you." She then brought the man sitting next to me a can of UNOPENED beer. So I asked her again why she refused to give me an UNOPENED can of diet coke. She said, "We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a WEAPON on the plane." So I told her that she was clearly discriminating against me because she gave the man next to me an unopened can of beer. She looked at his can, quickly grabbed it and opened it and said, "it's so you don't use it as a weapon." Appalled at her behavior I asked people around me if they witnessed this discriminatory and disgusting behavior and the man sitting in an aisle across from me yelled out to me, "you Moslem, you need to shut the F** up." I said, "what?!" He then leaned over from his seat, looked me straight in the eyes and said, "yes you know you would use it as a WEAPON so shut the f**k up." I felt the hate in his voice and his raging eyes. I can't help but cry on this plane because I thought people would defend me and say something. Some people just shook their heads in dismay.”

                Tahera Ahmed University Chaplain on her experience of racism on united Airlineshttps://www.facebook.com/tahera.ahmad.5?fref=ts

 

'I have dealt with racism in this society from my early childhood to this very day in many different forms from white people. Although I have never been to jail and have never once harmed anyone at all, since I have been an adult I have been stopped by the police 3 times, handcuffed and forced into the back of a police car because I “fit the description” of who “they were looking for” and luckily just to be let out due to a clean and ‘jail-free’ record. Many black men who were innocent like me have been killed by the police this way and I seek ALLAH’s protection!

My young 13 year old daughter was harassed by a white policemen for wearing her HIJAB while riding her bike and my wife (on 3 occasions!) was also harassed in public because of her HIJAB as well again by whites. Our neighbor who is Moroccan (married to a good friend of mine) was verbally harassed while waiting for the bus on our block from a racist white person. This highly upset her because being from a Muslim country she had never experienced anything like this ever before!"                                                                                          Member Islam J. Karim

 

Muslim women due to the honorable requirement of HIJAB AND NIQAB are "soft targets" for the cowardly ‘Islamaphobes’ in western societies. Muslim men too have been targeted for wearing their Kufi or Turban 

Some of the racist ‘Islamaphobes’ are truly ignorant as in the case of a Sikh male whom also wore the turban was murdered in cold blood by a white man mistaken him to be an “Middle  Eastern looking Arab”. Worse than that a White man massacred 6 people in a Sikh temple once again thinking that these were “Middle Eastern Arabs” due to their turbans and “dark skin”.Hindus and Sikhs are routinely attack and mistaken for Muslim due to their skin color and the fact that they too wear the turban!

 

And yet again in the month of June 2015, 21 year old hell-bent avowed white racist Dylan Roof went into a historical peace-loving Black church and slaughtered 9 innocent Black people after sitting for an hour in a prayer meeting with them in which he bizarrely believed that “Black men were rapping white women and taking over America”. This incident had nothing to do with Islam and Muslims this was due solely because they were too a historically persecuted Black Christian people. Shortly after this massacre several Black churches were “mysteriously” burnt to the ground and re-awakening the great satanic evil that Blacks had endured during from the “American Chattel Slavery Era’ and the legal U.S apartheid era known in world history as ‘Jim Crow’!

 

Another bizarre thing about this church massacre was that shortly after Dylan Roof was captured by the police they were “comfortable enough” and at “ease” to take this evil young serial killer to a Burger King restaurant after he told them that he was hungry.

 

The murdering of Blacks and Indigenous/Natives to this very day are as old as America itself! 

 

Asians too have a MURDEROUS legacy with the whiteman’s racist behavior check this bizarre and oddly peculiar set of facts out: 

 

“..During the “Driving Out” of the Chinese who were commonly called the “yellow peril,” 40,000 miners of Chinese ancestry were forcibly expelled from California in 1868. Even from 1924 from 1948, any American marrying a Chinese lost their citizenship. This is not myth. This is not ancient history, but what happened right here in Sacramento. How do we remember what so few know?...

…Very few remember that mobs stormed through towns where Chinese Immigrants lived, burning homes and looting shops. Chinese were lynched and scalped. They had their pigtails cut off and were branded with hot irons. All this was endorsed by government through legislation.

 

In Los Angeles during 1871, 20 innocent Chinese men were lynched or burned alive by mobs of whitemen. Four men were crucufied spread-eagle and then executed with knife and gun.

 

And in 1885, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 28 Chinese men were murdered by local townspeople. In an orgy of bloodletting, not only burned the Chinese alive but then mutilated their dead bodies (as blacks were accustomed to i.e mines!). Across California, Chinese workers suffered beatings and shootings and were herded to railroad stations, loaded on trains, and never seen again.”                                                                                                                                                                  The Driving Out and the Sacramento Chinese Driven Off Their Home.Taken from: Friends of the Yee Fow Museum yeefowmuseum.org

 

                                                                                      WHEN AMERICANS LYNCHED MEXICANS

One dimension of mob violence that is often overlooked, however, is that lynchers targeted many other racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, including Native Americans, Italians, Chinese and, especially, Mexicans.

Americans are largely unaware that Mexicans were frequently the targets of lynch mobs, from the mid-19th century until well into the 20th century, second only to African-Americans in the scale and scope of the crimes. One case, largely overlooked or ignored by American journalists but not by the Mexican government, was that of seven Mexican shepherds hanged by white vigilantes near Corpus Christi, Tex., in late November 1873. The mob was probably trying to intimidate the shepherds’ employer into selling his land. None of the killers were arrested.

                                  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/opinion/when-americans-lynched-mexicans.html?_r=0

 

We are vividly aware of the satanic and racist behavior toward the respectable law abiding Japanese Americans and their families who were herded like animals into concentration camps and DEMONIZED IN AMERICAN CINEMA, NEWS, LITERATURE ETC.AS TRAITORS to the American government solely due to their race during WW2. But what a very small few may know is the fact that German and Italian Americans too were taken from their homes and placed with the Japanese in internment camps located in 3 locations in Texas.

 

Many independent Black townships were destroyed and inhabitants VICIOUSLY SLAUGHTERED by whites in cold blood in towns such as: Rosewood, Allensworth, Slocum, Texas, Atlanta Race Riot, East St. Louis Massacre, Kirven Texas, Seneca Village, Opelousas Massacre, Omaha Race Riot, Chicago Race Riot, Colfax Massacre, Washington Race Riot, New Orleans Race Riot, The Red Summer Riots, St. Augustine, Florida Beach Riot and the most famous BLACK WALLSTREET OF TULSA OKLAHOMA! There were many more independent and prosperous towns destroyed by whites not mentioned here.

 

I note these well documented and irrefutable concrete facts to show the racist legacy of white people and why the inherent continued climate of racial hate against non-white people is here with us to this very day!!!!!

 

Black and Latino men are being murdered now in unprecedented numbers just as they both were during ‘Jim Crow’ (legal apartheid era!) by the police and racially profiled on a daily basis, Muslim immigrants are now being apart of this evil statistic. But the worst of this is the irrefutable fact that Indigenous Natives have actually the highest rate of police killings etc. The Latino and Indigenous Native communities do not get the same exposure in the media as Blacks do though their numbers are just as high with racist police brutality. The border patrol police are also well known for their murdering, raping, molesting and sheer brutality of Latino people that cross into the U.S. Many of these well recorded abuses happen in their immigrant detention centers across the Mexican/U.S border etc.

 

During the Western Judeo/Anglo Christian slavery era blacks had suffered several centuries of an unprecedented: demonic/cultish, brutal, sadistic, animal chattel, sexual deviant/perverted behavior, freakish/barbaric quack medical experiments etc. The white man’s godless and blasphemous form of slavery WAS IRREFUTABLY AND UNDENIABLY THE MOST EVIL BY FAR IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND etc. This racist behavior/attitude once again like in their past is now being spewed unashamedly from a great number of people in American politics from: Presidential front running republican candidates (Trump etc.)  Mayors, Congressmen, City Officials, Law Enforcement, Senators etc. Even President Obama and his family have not escaped the hateful ultra-racist slurs from his fellow democratic citizens.

These well recorded unprecedented and frequent killings by the American police have many blacks and blacks that are Muslim, Latino’s, Indigenous Natives etc. simply afraid to venture outside of their homes at times thinking “Will I be next or someone I know?” A’UTHU BILAHI MIN ASH SHAYTANIR RAJEEM!!!!!

 

Police departments throughout the U.S, have made matters worse by recruiting “insecure” Muslims to ‘snitch’ on fellow Muslims setting them up on false charges to end up in prison. The police have threatened to revoke the ‘green-cards’ of these “insecure” Muslims and deport them if they did not cooperate with them to betray their fellow Muslim brothers and sisters.

 

Whites too now are increasingly becoming victims of unjust police violence as we see during these massive unprecedented social protests nationwide etc. Many whites like in the case of blacks are seeking justice just to be stalled and lied too also feeling the pain and anguish which blacks have dealt with for the last 400 years at loosing innocent loved ones to corruption and violence etc.

 

This trend does not show any slowing in the near future

There is a “catch 22” situation here for Muslim residing in Western lands and the fact that Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion by far as many the world over are entering the fold of this great and wonderful blessed way of life and finally understanding what their obligations are to the good of mankind.

We are indeed happy for that because millions like me whose fore-parents were Muslims before the ‘Trans-Atlantic Western Chattel Slavery Era’ and now we have been given a "second chance".

During those dubious and wicked times, unimaginable punishments by white Christians and Jews with the worst of it all BEING STRIPPED OF ISLAM and having it replaced with European Trinitarian “Christianity”.

This happened for over 3 centuries followed up by nearly a century of “legal APARTHEID’ (Jim Crow) which included death by lynching (bodily mutilation and the hanging/burning etc).

The police murders of today on black men, women and children now out-pace by far the lynchings of the ‘Jim Crow’ era!                                                           Economic, social, literary/scholastic depravity (school closures) and inequality are still all the order of the day!

Eric Garner a blackman who was suspected of selling cigarettes who was not armed and clearly no threat whatsoever to the several police officers that surrounded him died due to an illegal choke hold. Whilst in the illegal chokehold he begged the police 8 times for air and then said (to our regret!) his now last famous words: ‘I CA’NT BREATH’!!!!!. The officer that murdered Garner will not face any prison time whatsoever!

 

In Phoenix, Arizona (5-29-15 on JUMA FRIDAY!) the protest by FULLY ARMED racist white neo-Nazi bikers DISRUPTED OUR SACRED CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER with the intentions of provoking a physical altercation and possible bloodshed. AL-HAMDULILAH, ALLAH azza wa jalla protected the Muslims that day. But how long will that last before and eventual clash (which is predicted by most!) will happen???? ALLAH knows best.

World renown scholar/lecturer Imam Zaid Shakir who was instrumental in bringing to our city here Oakland, Ca. from Boston, Mass. the wonderful and inspirational Sheik Ibrahim Rahim whose younger brother was shot and murdered by the Boston Police:

 

Brother Of Imam Shot By Police In Boston Tells Different Story

June 2, 2015 10:48 PM

 

BOSTON (CBS) – The brother of a man who was shot and killed by police in Boston Tuesday was very vocal on social media. Usaama Rahim’s older brother is an imam at a mosque in California.

Ibrahim Rahim posted his account of what happened on Facebook:

 

“My youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times. He was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness. His last words to my father who heard the shots were: I can’t breathe!”

A federal law enforcement source says Usaama Rahim, 26, of Roslindale, had been on investigators ‘radar for several months and recently became radicalized and inspired by ISIS’ online propaganda.”

 

COINCIDENTALLY like Eric Garner, Imam Ibrahim’s brother Usaama said his last words too were: “I can’t breathe!”

 

Dear brothers and sisters who am I to believe here, The Boston Police which has a long and outstanding, undeniable, well documented history of: racial profiling, police brutality, corruption etc? Or a Muslim only known for teaching: tolerance, diversity, peaceful co-existence etc. and having a strong noted stance against ‘terrorism’???ALLAH knows best. During the first Juma Khutbah of the month of Ramadhan 2015 I attended, Imam Ibrahim talked of having peace with the police and fulfilling our rights to ALLAH this fasting season. Will it ever happen at this rate of police shootings and cover-ups??? 

 

My dear and beloved son is the same exact age of Tamir Rice (12yrs at the time of his murder!) who was shot and killed by police for having a toy gun. When police pulled up on the young Tamir he did not aim it at police or act in a threatening way, they just simply shot him within 2 seconds of their arrival. And had they administered first aid got him to the hospital in time he possible could have been saved and not over bled and died from his injuries etc.   

 

Inconsistencies in police account

 

The initial account was given by Deputy Chief of Field Operations Ed Tomba, before the video emerged:

·         Police said that Rice was seated at a table with other people. The video showed that Rice was alone.

·         Police said that as they pulled up, they saw Rice grab the toy gun and put it in his waistband. This is not supported by the video. Judge Adrien said the                 video does not show the toy gun in Rice's hands in the moments immediately before as the zone car approaches.

·         Police said they got out of the car and told Rice three times to put his hands up but he refused. The video shows Rice being shot before the police car                 even comes to a halt.

·         Police said that Rice then reached into his waistband and pulled out the toy gun, and was then shot and killed by Officer Timothy Lehmann. The video                   shows that Rice did not pull out the toy gun.

·         Police described the toy gun as looking real and later explained that the neon tip of the toy gun was missing.However the police never saw Rice brandish or           point the pistol at them to determine if the orange cap was actually missing or not.

                                                                     Taken From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

 

Another bizarre thing in all of this is that it took nearly 7 months to bury his body which is totally HARAM in Islam. Many have asked why such a long delay? Where they hiding something? All of this has caused great distress to Tamir’s mother who moved into a homeless shelter. Good thing she was not there long due to family and friends who raised enough money and put her in a nice home after all.

 

Sandra Bland  was another black woman who was also a known inspiring social activist who was illegally pulled over by police on a bogus traffic stop was physically ‘roughed-up’ up by police just to end up dead whilst in jail a few days later of her bogus arrest in which was reported as a “suicide”. After an independent autopsy it was proven that she was strangled to death whilst in police custody.

 

Sam Dubose was shot in the head by police on a routine traffic stop.

 

A young nice and prodigious genius, 14 year old Sudanese American Ahmed Mohamed, a fan of robotics wanted to impress his teachers so he made a digital clock. The school then called the police on him he was taken to juvenile detention and interrogated without his parents. His Islamaphobic School that he attended accused him of making a “bomb”.

 

 “In an interview late Wednesday with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Ahmed said he was pulled out of class at MacArthur High School by his principal and five police officers and taken to a room where he was questioned for about an hour and a half. He said he asked the adults if he could call his parents.

 

"They told me 'No, you can't call your parents,'" Ahmed said. "'You're in the middle of an interrogation at the moment.' They asked me a couple of times, 'Is it a bomb?' and I answered a couple of times, 'It's a clock.'"

 

"I felt like I was a criminal," the teenager said. "I felt like I was a terrorist. I felt like all the names I was called." Hayes asked what he meant.

 

In middle school, Ahmed said, he had been called "bomb maker" and a "terrorist."

 

"Just because of my race and my religion," he said, adding that when he walked into the room where he was questioned, an officer reclined in a chair and remarked, "That's who I thought it was."

 

"I took it to mean he was pointing at me for what I am, my race," the freshman explained.

 

Ahmed is not going back to MacArthur -- he's transferring to another school, said family spokesperson Omair Siddiqi of the Dallas-Forth Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a non-profit advocacy organization that has been helping the family handle media calls.”                                                                                                               http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/

 

On the other hand we have Taylor Wilson who is white, when he was a 14-year-old at his parents’ home he built a nuclear reactor. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy officials invited to meet with him they offered equipment and encouragement to apply for a research grant and their expert assistance.

 

 

THE THREATS ARE REAL, MUSLIMS ARE BEING ATTACKED AND SOME HAVE ALREADY BEEN MURDERED AND THE POTENTIAL FOR A NATION-WIDE ALL-OUT ATTACKS ON MUSLIMS CAN EASILY HAPPEN IN THE UNPRECEDENTED AND ESCALATION OF ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA’

Holder: Threats Against Muslims the “Most Serious Civil Rights Issue” We Face

                                    Sep 7, 2010 | Blog  http://bjconline.org/holder-threats-against-muslims-the-most-serious-civil-rights-issue-we-face/

 

Threats Are Now a Daily Event for Many U.S. Muslim September 25, 2014 By Rob Garver 

 

“American Sniper” spawns death threats against Arabs and Muslims

Rania Khalek Arts and Culture 22 January 2015

 

7 Anti-Muslim Incidents That Happened Since the Chapel Hill Murders

The past week has shown a sharp increase in Islamophobia – which has put many communities on edge.

By Imraan Siddiqi / Stop Islamophobia Now February 20, 2015

 

‘As potential risks to Muslims mount, Pentagon asks civilians to stand down.’

 July 26th, 2015 by Andy Sher  

 

Anti-Islam rhetoric poses a threat to all people of color

by Goorish Wibneh - Apr 15, 2015

 

York’s Holy Islamville terrified after threats to kill NY Muslims                                                             

ANDREW DYS MAY 16, 2015

 

‘It's not just Ahmed Mohamed: anti-Muslim bigotry in America is out of control’

Updated by Max Fisher on September 16, 2015, 4:50 p.m. ET

 

MOSQUES NATIONWIDE ON SECURITY ALERT, INCLUDING HOUSTON LOCATIONS

By Christine Dobbyn 10-4-2014

 

U.S. group issues warning over planned armed anti-Islam rallies

CBS NEWS October 4, 2015, 1:32 PM

 

HERE IS YET ANOTHER SCATHING ARTICLE ABOUT THE DANGEROUS THREATS THAT MUSLIMS FACE HERE IN THE DEMOCRATIC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

 

“…attention is being paid to the growing number of THREATS AGAINST EVERYDAY MUSLIMS in the United States despite the FBI raising the alarm. The FBI issued an intelligence bulletin in May (2015), warning that “militia extremists” are increasing their VIOLENT RHETORIC AGAINST MUSLIMS and even potentially MAKING CONCRETE PLANS TO TARGET THEM FOR VIOLENCE. …CONCRETE THREATS… ‘DISCUSSED KIDNAPPING AND BEHEADING A MUSLIM…THREATS HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENINGLY SPECIFIC: “There started to be violentdeath threats towards a few different mosques in Phoenix. …we’re going to target your worshipers while they are worshiping. …We’re going to target your families inside your houses ad we’re going to BURN YOUR MOSQUE DOWN.” …plotting terrorist attacks on American MUSLIMS… 

                                  Islamaphobia Rising: FBI Warns ‘Militia Extremist’Are Targeting Muslims  By Kit O’Connell September 1 2015

 

“…According to Bloomington Police, a Muslim woman was sitting at the café with her 9-year-old daughter when a man began shouting derogatory phrases and ethnic slurs at the woman.The man, later identified as Triceten Bickford, 19, allegedly shouted “white power” and “kill them all.”

Bickford then grabbed the woman by her neck and slammed her head into the table. He then attempted to remove the woman’s headscarf…”                                                                          IU student arrested in attack on Muslim woman Kylee Wierks, Fox59 5:35 p.m. EDT October 19, 2015  

 

“Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch was eating on Oct. 30 with her husband when she became enraged by the woman speaking a foreign language in a nearby booth, reported KARE-TV.The 43-year-old Burchard-Risch yelled at the woman and threw a drink at her, and she brushed off managers’ attempts to calm her down.

…Jama told her assailant that she had a free speech right to converse with her family in Swahili.

Then Burchard-Risch “smashed” her beer mug across the woman’s face in a “roundhouse punch” motion before running away, police said.

…Jama suffered deep cuts across her nose, eyebrow and lower lip.

“Emotionally that has destroyed me,” Jama said. “I’ve lived in Minnesota for 15 years, never had anyone even look at me weird for not speaking English and wearing a Hijab. I’ve seen hate crimes on TV, but for it to happen to me — I’m really a different person, I don’t like it.”…”                                                                                             http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/minnesota-woman-smashes-muslim-in-face-with-beer-mug-for-speaking-swahili-at

 

These narratives are all too familiar in the America media and only getting worse!

 

Looking at how the U.S has paid other minority groups and supported them recognizing that great damage was done and the irrefutable and undeniable well documented injustices (GENOCIDE!!!) meted out on innocent people which started upon the arrival of none other than: CHRISOPHER COLUMBUS!!!!!

 In this great DEMOCRACY (Home of the Free and Land of the Brave) and where the ‘AMERICAN DREAM’ (prosperity rooted in usury based capitalism) is the driving force of American citizens etc., by now one would naturally think that the literal: ‘blood, sweat and tears’ that was extracted from BLACK MUSLIM SLAVES would have been compensated by now along with the other WELL DESERVING OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS. But for some seeming endless peculiar reason Blacks remain over looked by the United States of America’s government for their long overdue: REPARATIONS!!! Here is a list of reparation payments of minority oppressed groups:                                                     

And again most recently for our INDENGENOUS BROTHERS: Back in 2012, news outlets reported that the government will pay out $3.4 billion to Native Americans as a result of a long time dispute over the government mismanaging lands and accounts belonging to Native Americans.

The original agreement was outlined in 2009 and was approved in November 2010 by Congress. It then spent two years going through an appeal process and it was finalized two years later on November 24th—a Saturday.

According to CNN, the monies will be split; $1.5 billion will be given to those who were part of the lawsuit and the other $1.9 billion will be used in a “land consolidation program” which allows Native Americans to sell bits and pieces of their land; land that is just a small fraction of the massive ancestral plots that have been chipped away at over the centuries.

In another article posted by YourBlackWorld.net, some of the 350,000 eligible Native Americans were able to receive $1,000 checks as compensation.

With that said, people are wondering about the reparations that are owed to the descendants of slaves that helped create this country. The federal government was able to put a price tag on the land trusts for the Native Americans, however what about the free labor the slaves had no choice but to provide?

Although there is no dollar amount that can compensate the families of those whose ancestors suffered during the days of slavery, for some, just the idea that the federal government is making an honest effort to make amends is enough of a start.

In an article published on the Smithsonian Magazine, the debt that is owed has been talked about in the beginning, but it has gone unpaid for too long. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated over 50 years ago: “Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check—a check that has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’ But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity in this nation.”                                                                                                                                                                                 Native Americans Will Finally Get What’s Owed: $3.4 Billion in Reparations Posted on September 29, 2015 by The Reel Network, By Evette Champion

 

Albuquerque, NM —“ In a historic settlement, Native American tribes have been awarded nearly a billion dollars. The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that a settlement was reached with 645 Native American Tribes for the sum of $940 million dollars.

The settlement stems from a 1990 lawsuit, which claimed the U.S. government failed to pay its portion of federal contracts for housing, education, law enforcement and healthcare, as well as a number of other support programs.

When the federal government failed to meet its obligations, people on the tribal lands were decimated by suffering, according to tribal leaders.

“The federal government’s conduct was not just cruel and wrong, it was illegal,” said Governor Val Panteah Sr. of the Zuni Pueblo.

Tribal leaders believe the massive payout to compensate the tribes will assist in combating major issues faced on reservations such as alcoholism, rampant unemployment and almost non-existent healthcare system.

The settlement is meant to compensate the tribal contractors and tribes that were underpaid from the years of 1994 to 2013. The failure of the US government to meet financial obligations to the tribes is one of the historic means used to keep Native Americans disenfranchised.

“I’m very satisfied with this settlement, but in other areas of those treaty obligations we need to work like we did here,” President John Yellowbird Steele of the Oglala Sioux tribe told ABC 7.

There is hope among tribal and government leaders that this agreement could lay the foundation for future healing. There is cautious optimism, with hopes that broken treaty obligations can be eventually remedied.The settlement must be approved by a federal judge, with the tribes scheduled to begin to receive payments within the next six to ten months.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     After Years of Oppression US to Pay Out Nearly $1 Billion to                                                                                                                                           Native Americans   By Jay Syrmopoulos on September 19, 2015

 

“The Obama administration has awarded $12 million for assistance to Holocaust survivors.The allocation from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Jewish Federations of North America, to be disbursed over five years, is part of an initiative launched in late 2013 by Vice President Joe Biden to address the needs of survivors in the United States, a quarter of whom live below the poverty line.…“With this award, we will be able to advance our efforts to provide crucial services to vulnerable survivors, including those living in poverty, those in the Orthodox Jewish community and those from the former Soviet Union,”…”  

Some 130,000 Holocaust survivors are living in the United States, according to U.S. government estimates…”                                                                                                                                 Obama Administration Awards $12M for Assistance to Holocaust Survivors JTA October 1, 2015

 

If the United States can recognize the pain and suffering of a people whose crimes against them took place in a far-away foreign lands that UNITED STATES had nothing to do with and then “award” them with their vast multi-trillion dollar material resources FOR THE LAST 65 YEARS etc. THAT BLACKS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO, THEN WHY HAS’NT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NOT “AWARDED” THE BLACKMAN ANYTHING FOR THE WELL DOCUMENTED, AND SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF CRIMES, IN HUMAN TREATMENT, THEFT OF LABOR, DESTROYED FAMILIES, DESTRUCTION CULTURE AND RELIGION AND GENOCIDE (LYNCHINGS!) AGAINST US????????? WHAT MAKES THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SO ADAMNANT NOT TO RECOGNIZE THE UNPRECEDENTED SHEER HELL THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US AND STILL DOING?????

 

“…After the Civil War (and during the war) , millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps in America and killed through forced starvation, and other means….In Natchez Mississipi alone, official estimate that in the time span of just one year, over 20,000 free Black people were killed in the concentration camp called The Devil’s Punchbowl.”                                                                                                                                                                                            http://melanoidnation.org/did-you-know-that-thousands-of-free-black-people-were-killed-in-concentration-camps-in-the-u-s/

 

“In his 2007 documentary Banished, filmmaker Marco Williams examined four examples of primarily white communities violently rising up to force their African-American neighbors to flee town. This became one of the techniques used to sabotage Black land ownership, a devastating trend in the 19th and 20th centuries that robbed Blacks of millions in generational wealth.”                                                                                      

      http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/09/8-heartbreaking-cases-where-land-was-stolen-from-black-americans-through-racism-violence-and-murder/

 

“I have been so greatly disappointed in the white church, and its leadership…During the Montgomery bus boycott I thought we would get the support of the white church, but WHITE MINISTERS, PREIST AND RABBI’S HAVE BEEN SOME OF OUR STRONGEST OPPONENTS. I have watched white churches stand on the sideline saying those are issues with which the Gospel have no real concern…WHO IS THEIR GOD? Why were their lips silent when Govenor Wallace gave the clarion call for defiance and hatred?...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Dr.Martin Luther King (from his book called: ‘A Testament of Hope’

 

Do whites need a vote every several decades from the establishment to see if they can vote in politics as blacks do????? That alone glaringly proves the centuries old atypical inequality of Blacks and Whites in this peculiar diaspora.Due to racism Blacks have never truly been full legal citizens of this country under the ever changing U.S laws which can change on a whim and any time they deem fit let alone have and equal paring with whites on any level.

If one can take a look at the international laws concerning human rights violations and the reparations that are due to those groups that have been oppressed, rights taken away, singled out for indiscriminate physical harm and genocide etc. it’s quite easy to see that Blacks residing in the U.S fits well into this category and are need of repair and compensation.

 

There are many Blacks who are Muslim and faith is Islam just like the millions of Black African slaves that too adhered to Islam as well and left Arabic Manuscripts during their enslavement here to prove it. Anti-Islamic rhetoric is at an all-time high, ‘Islamaphobia’ boiling over, daily threats from nearly all sectors of American life etc., YES, I AM AFRAID FOR ME AND MY FAMILY!!!!! I feel unprotected and unsafe most of the time knowing that I can be imprisoned with no charges at the time of their choosing, killed by police, or a stray bullet in the black community.

 

 “Ottawa (AFP) - An American citizen has applied for asylum in Canada because he says he fears police in the United States will kill him because he is black, the refugee board said Thursday.Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, filed a refugee claim soon after arriving in Vancouver in September.

 

According to public broadcaster CBC, he told an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) hearing on October 23: "I'm in fear of my life because I'm black”.”                                                   http://news.yahoo.com/black-man-fearing-us-police-kill-him-flees-183703096.html?nf=1

 

"This is a well-rounded fear," he said, citing the police shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri and the death of Eric Garner in New York City at the hands of police as examples of black people in the United States "being exterminated at an alarming rate."…”                                                                                                                                                            http://news.yahoo.com/black-man-fearing-us-police-kill-him-flees-183703096.html?nf=1

 

And though there numbers are few some whites are seeking justice for the crimes past and presently done to Blacks:

 

                                                      White Scholar Insists Churches Should Talk About Reparations For Descendants Of Slaves

“What divides the races in America, says Drake University ethicist Jennifer Harvey, is not the failure to embrace differences but the failure of white Americans to repent and repair the sins of the past. “Our differences are not only skin deep,” the 44-year-old scholar told a lecture hall packed with Duke Divinity School students recently. “Our differences are the deepest and most complex manifestations of genealogies of harm done to some and perpetrated  “All over the Hebrew Bible, this is what it says to do when you steal  — you give it back sevenfold,” she said…”                                                                                                                             http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-christian-scholar-insists-churches-should-talk-about-reparations-for-descendants-of-                                                                                      slaves_5642120ee4b0307f2caef8cb?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg000000

                       With the U.S Presidential election win of known bigot and Islamophobe: DONALD TRUMP, HE IS SOLIDLY ON RECORD FOR HIS:

  • STANCE AGAINST ISLAM AND MUSLIMS

  • VOWS TO STOP MUSLIMS FROM ENTERING THE US

  • TOLD BLACKS IF THEIR LIVES DID NOT MATTER THEN RETURN TO AFRICA

  • CALLING SYRIAN REFUGEES ‘RABID DOGS’

  • Wanting to make legal for Muslim-Americans to be forced to wear identification like that of the European Jews that paved the way to the Holocaust.

  • Requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a government database, or worse, mandating that they carry special identification cards that note their faith.

  • Being open to wholesale surveillance of Muslim-Americans and warrantless searches of mosques. He even praised past NYPD policies that spied on the New York City Muslim community as "great," Nothing found to incriminate ay Muslim.

  • Wanting Masjids and Islamic Culture Centers shut down

And now that Trump is President and based on what he is on record saying about Muslims, he is poised to be hell-bent working towards Muslims having fewer rights than other Americans simply because of their faith, which is no different than advocating for racial profiling of Blacks or Latinos !!!!!

Because of Trump's win attacks on Muslims are on a even higher rise!!!! KKK rallies are being held in celebration of Trump's election etc. The racist, bigots and Islamophobes are more embolden as never before, Blacks and Muslims are caught in the cross-hairs.

 

But with these undeniable and irrefutable facts given here WE HERE AT THE BLACK DIASPORIC 'BACK TO AFRICA' REPATRIATION SOCIETY remain optimistic especially when Sudan with their problems etc are striving to do better as stated by Jerry Lanier U.S. Chief of Mission to Sudan. Let history record this moment and the understanding, compassionate, wonderful people that listened and donated to this noble cause. 

May ALLAH protect us in these challenging and un-predictable times, But then again many of the things we see were predicted by Muhammad peace and blessing

forever be upon him.

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