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Literature
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African America
Discusses the reality of African America, including where it is, who created it, why it was created, its significance for Americans of unknown African ancestry, and it relationship to America.
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AfricanAmerica.org Click the link to the left for connection. NEW!!!We are pleased to offer a connection to an outstanding message board that focuses on African America. Please give it a serious look. Participate. A place where the voices of African America is heard.
The Document of CreationThe document creating the Institute for African American National Heritage as the entity for the aggressive, postive support and protection of the ethnicity of Americans of unknown African ancestry.
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African American: Our National Heritage
Here are some of the things we are proud of as Americans, and in particular as African American Americans. Having a ready knowledge of our history is a tool that is always important when you have to talk to others about ourselves. This quick summary offers a refresher of things we should already know. These are things that are unique to African American Americans as a people.
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Ancestral Nationality Is For Your Children
An ancestral national identity for your children is as important to their functioning in America's society as their family name. Clearly, they can live successfully without it. The wholeness of their lives however, is infinitely better with it.
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Confusion Is Not A Foundation For Identity [Updated 8-17-99]
This is a rebuttal to an article published in the LA Times February 13, 1999 entitled "Just Call Us 'Black Americans'." This LA Times article is an excellent example of a desparate approach often taken by Americans of unknown African ancestry in striving for an identity. The article is a clear call for a remedy. The rebuttal identifies the article as a confusion of ideas and concepts, and goes on to offer a simple, clear, and irrefutable definition of The African American Ethnicity.Click here to obtain this document
The Confederate Flag
The controversy in South Carolina over flying the "Confederate Flag" from the capitol building is a valid issue for all African American Americans.
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This is a speech delivered by James Wesley Chester, founder and president of the Institute, at the third annual celebration of African American National Heritage Day on August 15, 1999 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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The Electors NEW!! December 1, 2000
This is a commentary on what is believed to be one of the last two provisions of the Jim Crow Law era. This one is in The Constitution. The other is in national law.
The current scramble for the power of the Presidency of the United States of America is based on the tool originally design to defeat the "will of the people" as expressed in a national popular vote. The full value of the political currency of African American Americans is once again being displayed, but behind the veil of assuring the intent of The Constitution of the United States of America. We, as Americans, are indeed privileged to get a full view of our system at work.
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Jim Crow: Alive and Well After All These Years NEW!!
It is important not to underestimate your enemy. It is even more important to recognize that enemy. Jim Crow is a direct avowed enemy to the welling being of African American Americans. Jim Crow reared its ugly head in Florida in the Election of 2000. In addition, a major tool of slavery, The Electoral College, was brought to bear to perform its originally intended function to defeat the national popular vote.
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PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE NEW!!It has been clear since 1868 that African American Americans had the right to vote under the United States Constitution when the 14th Amendment was added conferring citizenship to the newly freed Africans in America. But, it didn't happen. The 15th Amendment was added in 1870 to specifically address the issue in the United States Constitution thus taking away any consideration of the State's Rights provisions of the 10th Amendment. But it didn't happen. A law was passed as authorized in the 14th and 15th Amendments making it illegal to deny the vote to African American Americans. But it didn't happen. A law was passed in 1957, and it still didn't happen. That condition continued to prevail until 1965, ninety-five years after the 15th Amendment. It happened then only because the law was constructed around a very tightly worded Section 4 which assures the protection against the denial of the right to vote to persons for reasons of "race or color."
IN SPITE OF THE REPEATED STATEMENT BY AUTHORITATIVE VOICES FROM EVERY QUARTER THAT IT IS NOT TRUE (MOST RECENTLY ON C-SPAN FEBRUARY 23, 2002):
THAT PROTECTIVE ASSURANCE HAS ALREADY BEEN VOTED BY CONGRESS TO BE REMOVED. SECTION 4 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 EXPIRES IN 2007!! THE LAW SAYS SO. THE CONGRESSINAL REFERENCE SERVICE SAYS SO. READ THE LAW FOR YOURSELF, AND YOU'LL SAY SO.
WAKE UP!!!
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THE DUPING OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR NEW!!! February 1, 2002
You may be interested in this. The silence thus far has been resounding silence.
This letter-to-the-editor was distributed by snail mail to twenty-nine (29) publications which are largely print media. A few were broadcast. Earlier efforts to communicate this information to the media has been ignored without comment, or question,uniformly. A short list of individuals have also been sent copies by e-mail for personal information.AMERICA'S PRESCRIPTION FOR THE "BLACK VOTE" NEW!! March 21, 2002
Our country has had a demonstrated a need to control the political currency of the vote of African American-Americans its days as colonies. In writing the "rule of law" for the newly independent "United States", the forefathers of the new nation codified that need. In 1861, a war was inititated over the currency of the vote of African American-Americans. Upon losing that war, "The South" used The Electoral College to negate the popular vote of the Presidential Election of 1876. In 1877, the Republican Party, and Congress succumbed to blackmail by The South, and surrendered the vote of African American-Americans to the rule of Jim Crow in exchange for the presidency. In 1965, to quiet severe, and increasing unrest in the African American-American population which was threatening open civil disorder, Congress sold African American-Americans, and the population at large, a bill-of-goods in the deceit of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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BOGUS REALITY: The product of bogus legality NEW!!!
For generations, legitamacy has been at issue for the status of full citizenship for African American Americans. Just what that citizenship is has always been a question. Your rights frequently depends on where you live (i.e. what State you live in). States' Rights determines your viability in functioning as a citizen of the United States of America. That is what the 10th Amendment to the Constitution means to you. There is a bogusness in the law. There is a bogusness in your reality. You can change that. You don't need to ask permission of anyone. You simply demand it.Click here to obtain this document
Black Studies versus Identity New!!
10.21.01The vital curricula in the colleges and universities across the country that address the history of Americans of unknown African ancestry is indeed about history, but only history. While identity is frequently "talked about," there is never resolution. The young people are left informed, but without a personal resolution of "Who am I?" with social parity. This must be not only addressed, but resolved clearly, with definition. Every person without exception requires clear identity. It is essential to be effective, competitive in the society in which you live.
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African America's Reality New !! 11.01.01
African America is certainly more than this. It is however, at least this.
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Setting a National Political Agenda
New !! 12.14.01
The Institute for African American National Heritage enthusiastically supports the intiative being advanced for the an African American American Presidential candidate in 2004. IAANH further supports the establishment of an independent political party which focuses on including the needs of African American Americans in the political plan of the United States.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION OF 2007
New !!! 4.1.02
You are occupied. You're busy "making a living," "going to school," "advancing your career," "seeing to the needs of your family," "worrying about the things that matter." Your children are in the hands of others at least 50% of their waking hours. They are being taught that everything is alright. The are accepting that teaching, because you are not telling otherwise. They are confident you would tell them if "everything" was not alright, especially the protection of the right to vote. All of the people, and agencies you are assuming to be "looking out" for your vested interests in protection of your right to vote are knowingly, failing you, and misleading you. You are failing your children, because you don't know. You're busy. Doing stuff. Your children are likely to ask, "What was that "King Thing" all about? Was it really suppose to be temporary?"
Congress has cancelled the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for African American-Americans. Your circumstance will be the same as your great-grandfather's was in 1877. Congress denies it. The Voting Section of the Civil Right Division, of the U. S. Justice Department denies it. Both the print media, and broadcast media not only ignores it, but helps to conceal it from the public. The NAACP denies it. The United States Commission for Civil Rights, not only denies it, but helps to mislead the public saying, "There is nothing to be concerned about. It's a simple matter of reauthorization." Noted educators deny it with one saying on national television, "It's not true." Well, it is true, and you must fix it.
You must be the one to assure yourself of the ability to fully, and permanently participate in the education processes in your own country, the United States of America. Congress will not do it. America will not object. Congress will try to keep you from doing it. America will not object. The Constitution says, "Yes. Yes, you can do it."
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THE VOTE New: May 2, 2002
Know it's power. Know what it is. Know who controls it.
This attribute of citizenship has been the focus of the America's political process since before the formation of The Republic. Obessed with control of the power of the African American-American vote, The South has wrangled the United States into, and out of several periods of outright violence beginning with "The Bedlum" [The Civil War], a conflict about the power of the vote not the freedom of the voter. The supposed "voter" wasn't even a citizen. That supposed "vote" was itself, bogus. It has always been about the power, not the people, or their freedom.Today, it is still only about the power. Today African American-Americans must recognition the value, and power of their own political currency, take control of that power, and place it in a foundation and framework that can compete effectively in the American political system.
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IT'S A NEW YEAR WITH THE SAME "BIG LIE!"
NEW January 9, 2003
"African American-Americans do not lose the right to vote in 2007.", say most. True. Some go on to say, "There is nothing wrong with the Voting Rights Act of 1965." False. It is not known that any of the nay sayers have actually read the 1982 amendment to the law. Incredibly, it could be that they are simply echoing each other, trusting each other’s ignorance. The second conclusion on the law is not simply wrong. When it is combined with the first, it is a contrived deception. Put simply, African American-Americans lose the intended application of the law, which is PROTECTION of their right to vote. It’s 1877 all over again.Click here for the document
"AFRICAN AMERICA'S HISTORY ---- REPEATING"
NEW May 5, 2003"African America's History --- Repeating" is a talk presented at Scranton University in Scranton, Pennsylvania on May 3, 2003 during its hosting of the 26th Annual Black History Conference. The conference is sponsored each year by Pennsylvania's History and Museum Commission. The conference is a celebration of African American History in Pennsylvania. It is held in a different Pennsylvania city every year. It was very noteworthy this conference was used to note the placing of Pennsylvania Historic Marker on Miller Road in Waverly, Pennsylvania to mark location of a community of escaped slaves established beginning in the 1840s. A great grandniece of one of the children born into that community found and documented the settlement, and was present with relatives at the dedication of the marker.
The document is included in the second edition of "The African American Ethnicity."
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Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) Voting Rights Act Correspondence
NEW 5.13.03
Both of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators were ask for their position on the termination of Section 4 and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Thus far only Sen. Santorum has responded. His reply is less than satisfactory for African American-American in Pennsylvania. He assures us that a "future Congress will carefully consider the merits of extending the lifetime ...." The full text of his letter can be obtained by clicking here.
The response to his letter can obtained by clicking here.
RESIDENCY IN AFRICAN AMERICA, CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICA
NEW 5.13.03
Identity for Americans of unknown African ancestry will be resolved on an individual basis. This will continue to occur until the phenomenon reaches "critical mass." This is as it should be. Identity is about family, after all. Identity is from the top down in that very tight structure. Your children are who you say you are.
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FLORIDA 2000 NEW: 5.21.03
The State of Florida is improperly, and illegally represented in the United States House of Representatives.
Florida is being treated as the State that had a bad voting ballot that misled people into to voting for the wrong person, or cause votes to not be counted. The solution has been to spend megabucks to get a better system in place. That may all be true. But it is also true that the State of Florida caused the disenfranchisement of thousands of African American-Americans. This wrong was documented by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. That Commission recommended to the U. S . Department of Justice of the Bush Administration that litigation be initiated against the State of Florida as specified in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. The Bush Administration has refused.
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AfriGenesis™ NEW 8.28.03
Beginning with the day Africans were first sold into the Virginia Colony in North America, in 1619, there has been a "ying-yang" effect, in colony after colony, shaping the society that has become the Republic of the United States of America. Europeans oppressed Africans to elevate themselves. Africans resisted to survive. Africans pushed to expand their freedom. Europeans squeezed to minimize and contain the effect. The net effect is an ever growing, ever expanding, ever more powerful society. It is a phenomenon recognized and written about, ignored and denied, disguised and misrepresented. But always in continuing operation. It is the societal effect of The African Diaspora.
Barriers to Identity NEW 9.4.03
Identity in our society is ancestral nationality. It is our ethnicity. Race is not ethnicity. Color is not ethnicity.
Beliefs are an integral part of the protocols we have adopted to guide us in living in our society. These beliefs are very deeply held. Some beliefs we have developed personally. Others have been passed on to us by our parents and family. They are all conclusions about ourselves. They are based in race, color, religion, the demands/pressures of society. Some of the most significant beliefs about ourselves are passed on to us from the practices and insistence of chattel slavery. Those passed on from chattel slavery include denying Americans of unknown African ancestry (us) the claim of identity. Both as individuals and a people. Here the concern is for ancestral nationality.
In developing a "how to" approach for my children, it became apparent these barriers needed to be openly identified. I developed a list. It is by no means complete. You may want to develop a list of your own for you and your family. It can be a list of things that help you in knowing WHO you are. Try to avoid listing things that are only WHAT you are, such as color and race.Click here for the document
9.11 The New Normal New 9.12.03
Running headlong into the past. The new normal for African America promises to be the normal of our great-grandfathers. Jim Crow lives and we won't kill it.Click here for the document
A CHALLENGE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN ETHNICITYNew 9.18.03
A well-considered challenge was made recently to African American Ethnicity. A part of the challenge was the contention that the term "African American" made no difference with or without a hyphen. The discussion originated in an exchange based on the " language of identity." It expanded into a variety of related issues including the appropriateness of a term for ethnic reference in our society which uses the word "American" twice. This is the case with "African American-American. The implication being that since no one else does it, we shouldn't either. Some say it is unnecessary redundance. Others that it is improper. Others that it is inaccurate. I contend that what it is, is what it is. The construction of the term is a consequence of the peculiar circumstance of Americans of unknown African ancestry. The document is the summary position of the challenge, and the response.
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WHAT CAN WE DO FOR AFRICA? NEW 9.26.03
The question is being posed more, and more often. Many see African America as owing something to Africa. Struggling governments on the African continent are seen as needing the "unity" assistance of African America. What is there we have to give? Money. That's seems obvious. Technical assistance? There is enough of that to share, as are other areas of professional expertise. But I see the greatest potential for contribution coming from the personal decision of 35 million bound souls still looking to Africa for identity.
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SOMETHING WE CAN DO FOR AFRICAN AMERICA
NEW 10.34.03
There is a discussion being initiated on the message board, AfricanAmerica.org. What should we as African American-Americans do to change our circumstance in America is being ask. A document is being suggested to be sent to any, and every person in a position to effect change
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BLACKPHIST DESPAIR NEW 10.26.03
Beyond disappointment. Despair is a dark place. It is place where our ancestors spent their entire lives. It is often the language of current generation. They live in a time when they can no longer see behind the bright light of the present. Their yesterday was a day of hope. They often feel despair. But, they don't know despair. They don't know the feeling of utter desperation. The "do anything to get out" feeling. Great disappoint, yes. They read history, but can only imagine the insult.
It sometimes makes for decision-making born out of that desperation.
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AT THE DISCRETION OF THE STATE New 12.7.03
The discretion of the States under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution has been the primary method of control of African American-Americans since 1789. The most recent decision by the United States Congress to reaffirm that method of control is not really so recent. The decision was made in 1982 with an amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That amendment removes the protection of that law "on the basis of color and race" effective 2007. The general membership of Congress refuses to address this reversal. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has failed to address it on the floor of Congress for 21 years. African American media has played the issue calling it "urban legend", an issue of lack of understanding by African Americans. They say there is "nothing to worry about."
Within the last few days, an internet website, identified as being focused on black issues, determined the issue is of not the "hue and cry" of the CBC, because "(a) members believe there is plenty of time to do education on the issue before 2007, and (b) they are leery of bringing the subject up at this time, given the present makeup of the Congress. The website concluded that there is sufficient time to deal with the matter, and do not want to appear alarmist.T
The website said the piece I submitted "gives the impression the CBC is oblivious to the date, or the consequences of non-renewal. This leaves an interesting conclusion. The CBC knows the facts, and has failed to act for 21 years. And the website does not "want to appear alarmist." Hmmmm.
African America cannot lay back and leave such an important part of our freedom in the hands of a 21-year reluctance.
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Getting From Then To Now New 12.11.03
A detached look at a long, and continuing passage.Click here for the document
The Progression Out of Slavery New 12.24.03
The transition from slavery is typically seen to end in freedom. There is no definition given for freedom. Everyone knows what freedom is. Well, at least everyone is assumed to know what freedom is. In the United States, freedom is what everyone has. But freedom is like "equality" from the book "Animal Farm". Some are more equal than others. While America has decided against assuring the exercise of citizenship rights for African Americans, the greatest obstacle for African American-Americans is that of their own self-empowerment.Click here for the document
KWANZAA Umoja New 12.26.03
Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.Click here for the document
KWANZAA Kujichagulia New 12.27.03
Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.Click here for the document
KWANZAA Ujima New 12.28.03
Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.Click here for the document
KWANZAA Ujamaa New 12.29.03Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.
KWANZAA Nia New 12.30.03
Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.Click here for the document
KWANZAA Kuumba New 12.31.03
Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.
KWANZAA Imani New 1.1.03Reflections and conclusions on Kwanzaa both as a concept and as a celebration.
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THE ARGUMENT New 1.3.03Resolving a personal conflict. Who I am. Why. And who said so.
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PATRIOTISM New 3.23.04We, as African American-Americans can't seem to come to gripes with patriotism when address it as individuals. Yet, we participate fully in a voluntary military service. Is it "just another job?" Are we risking our lives for "just another job? For some, I think that is the case. It's just another job. I risk my life on the streets everyday, why not get paid?
That's not true for thousands of others. Yet patriotism that is difficult for many, if not most, African American-Americans to discuss coherently.
I HAVE NEVER TASTED THE LASH OF CHATTEL SLAVERY
NEW 5.12.14
We are lifetimes away from daily oppression of chattel slavery. We believe it was something from "back in the day;" 'way "back in the day." But chattel slavery is something so deeply embedded in our ancestors, they taught it to their children, And our parents taught it to us. It came to us in the understanding of ourselves, as seen and taught by our parents; as designed and taught by our society.
HOW DO YOU FIX IT? NEW 6.14.04
A professor's theory that Americans of unknown African ancestry are affected by a "multigenerational trauma" inflicted by America's chattel slavery which effects how we behave, how we see ourselves, how we relate to others, how we declare ourselves to others is being considered by a California court as a defense for the murder of a 2-year old.Whether the theory will be given legal status in this case or not is a separate issue. What is clear is that no one is saying the professor's conclusion is not true. Most adult Americans of unknown African ancestry know there is something, or the lack of something driving a behavior that is not known to have been demonstrated by any other people. And indeed, it has persisted for generations.
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Healing A Multigenerational Injury New 6.21.04
In 1995, Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary, an assistant professor at Portland State University, presented her diagnosis of an ailment, a phenomenon, being suffered by, and demonstrated in, Americans of unknown African ancestry. She named the condition Post-traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), a multi-generational traumatic effect inflicted by America's chattel slavery, and perpetuated by the continuing practices of American society. While noting the need, she offered no healing remedy.This is a healing solution that can serve as the foundation for that cocktail of remedies for an ailing people. It may have the power to, over time, negated all of the other effects.
AFRICAN AMERICAN PLEDGE OF UNITY New 11.5.04The website founder of a message board I like and frequent started an on-line store selling items bearing the tri-color of the Marcus Garvey Movement. which advocated a return to Africa by people all over the world who were out of African against their will. The banner has apparently been adopted by the Pan-African Movement and other organizations. The banner has gained in popularity in many segments of African American society. The founder posted an article from another publication which included a 'pledge of allegiance' for the flag. It struck a chord with me.
The flag is a banner for the African Diaspora. Its target is all of us who are of that banished group. I have long known the need for things that represent us, Americans of unknown African ancestry; African American-Americans. Of all the things taken from us, ancestral nationality has been embedded in our minds as something we can no longer have. That is, inherently, wrong.
I declared ancestral nationality for me and my family, and anyone else who is of the same experience, and birth. I also created a flag. I have always hesitated to create a pledge for the flag. I was motivated to provide that missing piece on November 2, 2004.
Click here for documentAmerica Everywhere New 12.28.04
This one got past me. I knew from the beginning there would be many challenges to an ancestral nationality for us, Americans of unknown African ancestry. I also knew the greatest, and most demeaning, even degrading, challenges would come from us. That's what we do. It is what we have been taught to do by the system that represses us.
I never once thought an otherwise informed person would mistaken location for citizenship. But it does happen.
Art Isn't Art New 1.4.04
We, Americans of unknown African ancestry, seem to understand self-empowerment until it comes to ourselves. Then all bets are off.
How Do You Declare Ownership of Identity? New 1.24.04Simply saying you own something is an interesting task. Most issues of ownership are accredited by some kind of document. Like a sales slip. A deed. Some documentation of inheritance. It becomes even more simple however if the ownership is a matter of sovereignty. You simply send a military force to subdue any opposing force. Then you simply ‘run up your flag.’
What do you do when you are not a political nation but still needing, and wanting to establish public notification of identity? The typical symbols of identity and nationality are flags and creeds. The act is still a sovereign act in that the permission of another entity is neither sought, nor desired. I think the process is essentially the same.
You go to some public place in the domain of concern and ‘run up your flag.’
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Profound Failure New 3.1.05
Failing is typically hard to deal with. Massive failure is even harder. Failing and realizing it is your fault, can be all but impossible to overcome.
But we can.
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African America's Celebration of Cultures New 3.9.05It is a real surprise, a pleasure, and source of great pride to find an event in the name of African America. This is the first, and only event held by the local school district in the name of African America. It may be the first in the State of Pennsylvania, and for that matter the nation.
The Futile Search Outside Ourselves New 3.19.05
We must continue to evaluate the reason(s) we have not done what every other people in the world have done. We must know why we are not successful in identifying ourselves in the same manner as all other people.
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The 'C-word': An Allergy? New 3.30.05This term produces a knee-jerk response in most people. It also implies that what ever is being discussed is either invalid, or of questionable motive. All 'c-words' are not created equal.
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White Privilege and Citizenship New 4.3.05
Our lack of resolve promises to endorse this historic truth in our society. It proves once again that we are, indeed, our own worst enemy. It is sad reality, and commentary on the state of leadership in African America in the 21st century.Click here for the document
U. S. Senate Apology on Lynching New 6.21.05
Thirteen United States Senators refused to co-author the resolution delivering the apology of the Senate for its failures to make lynching a violation of federal law on three separate opportunities. All the opportunities were in the 20th century. The Senators then hid their faces from exposure.A search has found the following about the hiding Senators.
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UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS IT STANDS New 8.4.05
It never feels good to have call attention to something being done wrong by someone important to you. But that is what I have to do for lack of an alternative.The march in Atlanta, Georgia scheduled is being done for the wrong reason, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended 1982 needs to be challenged. Not only is it wrong for it to be terminated, the law is unconstitutional as it stands.
The demand needs to be for constitutionality for laws intended to effect African American-Americans.
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Understand The Voting Rights Act New Sept. 21, 2005
This is a short discusssion offered to a local readership of a community newspaper in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Area of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The shortness of the article may help some get a better grasp of self-destruction contained in the petition being offered by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
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An Organization That Will Make The DifferenceNew 9.27.05
Stop complaining about the leadership. Change it. Help create an organization that is the answer.
An African American political party is the certain answer to getting our voice heard in America's society. The standard for getting a candidate on the ballot of any State is very large job. The two major parties of the country have made it that way. But it is something we can do.
Pennsylvania requires 2% of the votes gotten by the top vote-getter in the most recent general election. The achieve that number solidly, 100,000 people are needed who are willing to sign nominating papers, and the task has to been accomplished within a specified, 4-month window.
AND you must relinquish membership of any party you in which you may currently be a member. THAT IS CRITICAL. YOU CANNOT BE A MEMBER OF TWO POLITICAL PARTIES.
There will be no time to search for such persons. They must be already known. The process of distribution and collection of signatures will be tough enough to do the small amount of time allowed.If you are willing to sign nominating papers which identify you, and your place of residence, please send an e-mail containing your full legal name, and current place of residence, including city, zip code, and county to: The African American National Committee at: plus39@adelphia.net
James Wesley Chester, President, African American National Committee
Organizational Statements of The African American National Committee
New 10.3.05
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In The Spirit of the Millions More March New 10.17.05Hopefully, projects will be initiated to address every plaguing our communities in every location where they exist. We also should do the things needed to starve these life-sucking pariahs out of the lives of our people.
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WE NEED YOU!! New 10.28.05A Willing 100,000
There is a move by a political parties coalition to get legislation through the Pennsylvania legislature to have a flat signature-requirement for candidacy for an elective office in Pennsylvania. The current required number is two percent (2%) of the number of votes received by the successful candidate in the immediately previous general election.. For the office governor, that translates into 67,000 signatures.
The short leach held on any new party trying to enter a candidate has been described. What is needed is a standing reserve of willing nomination petition signers. The requirement of a separate petition signed by each signer can be imposed. Clearly, the goal here is to prevent a candidate from any party that is not either Democrat or Republican from getting on the ballot.
I am asking for 100,000 willing persons to be a part of the standing reserve for the African American National Committee candidate.
Clearly this will be a slow process, but we can get it done. Please consider adding your contact information to our list of ‘a willing 100,000.’
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IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER WAKE UP CALL New 11.3.05
The African American-American members of congress insist that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended 1982 should be simply, simply extended. The more you look at this law the more ridiculous this action becomes. The sections of the law in question expired in 1997. In 1997!!!!! Section 4(a) and Section 5 were extended in 1982 for 15 years where upon they were to be 'reconsidered'. That did not happen. Congress would not let it happen.
If the sections were not extended, is it not true they are no longer in effect? Congress should be 'considering' making the expired sections permanent.Click here for the document
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT New 11.12.-05
Last night I attended the annual 'Freedom Dinner' of the Wilkes-Barre Chapter of the NAACP. Discussion at my table, combined with urging words of the keynote speaker, prompted me to realize that the leadership we look for is not happening. Little seems to be happening to remove the things are foundations to the constraint of us, as a people. In this instance, it is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended 1982.
The keynote speaker reminded me that major initiatives effecting the lives of African American-Americans has never begun in the major cities of our nation. Trucksville, Pennsylvania is not a major city. Why not here?
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Bewildering Behavior New 1.05.05
We Americans of unknown African ancestry just can't seem to be able to assimilate the full empowerment of citizenship. We also don't seem to be able to embrace identity beyond the color society has assigned to describe and even identify us.Click here for the document
An Offer for The Covenant New 1.06.05
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An Out-of-Sight Site New 1.10.05
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The Fifth Estate New 1.15.06There is that mysterious ranking in society that deals with estates. But the ranking is not about inheritance in the sense of a negotiable asset. These estates are is about societal casting. Someone decided that selected groups be identified in the society and rank as to importance, or order of power. That someone is not identified, but someone who assumed the power made the decision.
I am assuming the authority to identify and declare 'The Fifth Estate'.
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The Aggregate of What You Are New 1.23.06
It pays to know the difference between what you are, and who you are.
Fulfilling The Promise of The Perpetual Union New 5.16.06
This is a task still to be completed. We know that, at the very least, African American-Americans have yet to realize the fullness of citizenship in the land of our birth. Yet, a giant has opened the door, and paved the way. That path has been used by the others who were vulnerable to the threats, and ill-will of others in our society. Though we the first to be targeted the work of this great American, we have not learned how to wear the cloak of freedom. It is like it chafes the tender shoulders that have borne a yolk for so many generations.
In The Language New 5.18.06
The hegemony.
The hegemony is the tool of the architects, the engineers, of our society to keep the shape, and perception of their wok in perspective. It is the tool that maintains their intent. Hegemony is the language of the system, the society. If we, as African American-Americans, are ever to be recognized in our own society, This is very difficult to do.
All the other suzerain nations of America operate under treaties which are, typically, overseen by the Department of the Interior through its Bureau of Indian Affairs. Typically, treaties are international affairs, and are administered through the Department of State. Our ‘peculiar circumstance’ is suzerain in nature, but the nearest thing we have to a treaty is what might be called a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’. The only documentation is contained in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended 1982. A critical part of that documentation, though it is not intended as such, is The Compromise of 1977. This aggregate is the codification of our ‘peculiar circumstance’. They constitute the surreptitious record of the history of us Americans of unknown African ancestry, African American-Americans. With such a disguised validity, to whom do we talk?
The language of our society, our hegemony, talks of us primarily in terms of what we are. We are referenced only with our color. That is not who we are.
Nine days ago, May 8, 2006, I mailed a request to the Secretary of State of the United States to please use our ethnic identity, African American, when referring to who we are rather using our color which only indicates what we are. In the same mailing, I sent copies to the President of the United States, and nine others who can help influence the change of this practice in our society.
I am posting a copy of this formal request to our government, because all Americans should know that a proper request has been made to our government to change its use of the disrespectful terminology in reference to us.
We cannot be made to be recognized only by our assigned color simply because others choose their assigned color for their societal recognition.
James Wesley Chester, President and Founder
Institute for African American National Heritage
About Some Things New 11.29.06
A discussion proceeds best when it is about things all parts can identify with. In the case of identity, what is known and assumed to be true becomes very important. The recognition of a common identity is relatively new to we Americans of unknown African ancestry. Not surprisingly, we do not all agree on what is true and what is not true...about us. We are the products of a school system that has taught us lies about ourselves as an integral part of its construction and intent.
We can do better.
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