WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR BLACKS?
They would have used us like a condom and thrown us away to Liberia, Haiti, Central America. But our forbears said "Hell no we won't go!" (Which too few of us later said about going to the War in Vietnam!)
We later sought to self-emigrate to Haiti, to Liberia; briefly to Florida, Canada and to Mexico to escape hellish "white" legal, commercial, historical, terrorism, repression, inopportunity, in the United States.
"What was to be done with the Negro?" was the central issue that had troubled the nation from its beginning in war with England.
We had helped America to win its so-called "revolution" that mocked the true meaning of the term; as we remained slaves, despite our help!
We had helped America to win the War of 1812 with England. In it, our colored sailors fought in the Battle of Lake Erie that we won, thereby learning of the Canadian sanctuary.
Hereafter, our people would seek to follow the North Star in flights away from thralldom. In our flights, we encountered allies among the Quakers and other whites to assist in our journey. We then fashioned our legendary UNDERGROUND RAILROAD from these contacts, experiences, and abettors, which were recorded by William Still in his epic compendium of that name.
In the Civil War, originally "a white man's war" from which blacks had been purposefully excluded from fighting-in by BOTH SIDES (Corps d'Afrique in Louisiana in the South), President Abraham Lincoln after chastening General Rufus Saxton in South Carolina, and after reversing General Jon C. Fremont's Order in Missouri, then capitulated to their irreducible logic to capitalize upon black troops for fighting, scouting, spying, fortifications and service; and Congress and Lincoln did the same respecting the "Contraband" --escaped slaves--who entered Union Lines for every other manner of service, except leadership and strategy, which remained entirely in white hands. A few black men were commissioned as Chaplains and Physicians, however, these were not in line command positions.
Elsewhere on the Kansas-Missouri border, where a "Border War" had been fought since the Kansas-Nebraska Compromise of 1854, the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry (created by Kansas' U.S. Senator James Lane with Lincoln's tacit consent) had already fought and won the "Battle of Island Mound" on October 29, 1862, inspiring Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. We blacks were the decisive difference in the war . We subtracted from the South, while adding to the North at the same time, even as many slaves remained on the plantations doing what they had always done before.
"What is to be done with the Negro" given this history, has now morphed into "what can be done for the Negro in the form of reparations for historic 'white' deprivations?"since great political victories are not as sufficient as before in the Reconstruction era.
Maybe Donald Trump will realize that the best way to win a second term is to pay reparations to the blacks in 2019 and in 2020! They vote! We vote! Mexicans, Guatemalans, do not, cannot vote, in American democracy!

Saturday, April 13, 2019
WHAT FOR THE BLACKS?
WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR BLACKS?
They would have used us like a condom and thrown us away to Liberia, Haiti, Central America. But our forbears said "Hell no we won't go!" (Which too few of us later said about going to the War in Vietnam!)
We later sought to self-emigrate to Haiti, to Liberia; briefly to Florida, Canada and to Mexico to escape hellish "white" legal, commercial, historical, terrorism, repression, inopportunity, in the United States.
"What was to be done with the Negro?" was the central issue that had troubled the nation from its beginning in war with England.
We had helped America to win its so-called "revolution" that mocked the true meaning of the term; as we remained slaves, despite our help!
We had helped America to win the War of 1812 with England. In it, our colored sailors fought in the Battle of Lake Erie that we won, thereby learning of the Canadian sanctuary.
Hereafter, our people would seek to follow the North Star in flights away from thralldom. In our flights, we encountered allies among the Quakers and other whites to assist in our journey. We then fashioned our legendary UNDERGROUND RAILROAD from these contacts, experiences, and abettors, which were recorded by William Still in his epic compendium of that name.
In the Civil War, originally "a white man's war" from which blacks had been purposefully excluded from fighting-in by BOTH SIDES (Corps d'Afrique in Louisiana in the South), President Abraham Lincoln after chastening General Rufus Saxton in South Carolina, and after reversing General Jon C. Fremont's Order in Missouri, then capitulated to their irreducible logic to capitalize upon black troops for fighting, scouting, spying, fortifications and service; and Congress and Lincoln did the same respecting the "Contraband" --escaped slaves--who entered Union Lines for every other manner of service, except leadership and strategy, which remained entirely in white hands. A few black men were commissioned as Chaplains and Physicians, however, these were not in line command positions.
Elsewhere on the Kansas-Missouri border, where a "Border War" had been fought since the Kansas-Nebraska Compromise of 1854, the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry (created by Kansas' U.S. Senator James Lane with Lincoln's tacit consent) had already fought and won the "Battle of Island Mound" on October 29, 1862, inspiring Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. We blacks were the decisive difference in the war . We subtracted from the South, while adding to the North at the same time, even as many slaves remained on the plantations doing what they had always done before.
"What is to be done with the Negro" given this history, has now morphed into "what can be done for the Negro in the form of reparations for historic 'white' deprivations?"since great political victories are not as sufficient as before in the Reconstruction era.
Maybe Donald Trump will realize that the best way to win a second term is to pay reparations to the blacks in 2019 and in 2020! They vote! We vote! Mexicans, Guatemalans, do not, cannot vote, in American democracy!