Today, I speak on the topic that is sensitive to some and shameful to others, why us? As an African American, who
has learned to live in a society that thrives on the weak and becomes rich from the wealth of others, I do quote
History.
Can you imagine being a king in your own land, limited boundaries, customs and traditions unknown to other
civilizations? Your villages are constructed with leaves, straw, and other materials found just a few yards from the
village. Your water supply flows constantly down from the mountains and through the valleys, supplying your
community with a continuous supply of fish. The jungle is filled with all manner of tropical fruit, berries and fowl in
which you can sustain your diet. Your daughters are princesses, your sons are princes. There is no limited amount
of royalty. You are surrounded by diamond mines, gold mines, that has been untapped for centuries. If one needed
transportation, he simply captured and tamed an elephant or built a raft or canoe and traveled by stream.
Then one day, there arises a king, this king is very angry concerning his birthright, and began to slaughter his
sisters and brothers. Those that he did not kill he enslaved, and if that was not enough, he began to sell slaves
abroad. Well, with any trade, there are consequences, the traders began to view the vast amount of wealth to be
had from this primitive but beautiful continent. That continent is Africa. Why us?
There was no disease destroying tribes or nations until the traders came. We know who the traders were. There was
no syphilis, gonorrhea, or any European-type diseases, a simple cold, pneumonia, and fever wiped out millions
within most villages. Why us?
Our women were raped, brought into a country where they became indentured servants, forced to live in squaller,
when once they were queens and princesses, they were brought down to sex objects, used to enhance the slave
trade. Why us?
People of color are the majority, yet, we have been led to believe that we are the minority, and as being the minority,
should be discriminated against, and receive less service of any people on earth. Why us?
We would have been content to grow our own food, to raise our own children, to cultivate our own soil, to raise our
own crops, to mine our own diamonds and gold, to create our own free trade market, to pump our own oil, to form
our own Government, to formulate our own laws, to build our own cities, to set in place our own Educational System,
yet, we are still being denied this right. Why us?
After being brought here against our will, to build a nation with the sweat of our brows, and the strength of our
backs, to be discriminated against, whipped, raped, lynched from trees and in the court systems, we still survive.
Why us?
This writing to some may seem outdated, but when you enter into the Courtroom, Housing Market, the Educational
System, you find a set of laws for them, and a set of laws for us. You will find a community built for them, and a
community built for us (Segregation). How then, can you say this writing is outdated, or may seem racist? When the
same atrocities are being committed against people of color each and every day. Why us?
May God forgive this nation, and all other nations that were involved with destroying a civilization.