Reparations & #pullupseptember2022

Luke 4:18 ~ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

I recently posted this on Facebook after contemplating the issue of reparations. I wanted to share my thoughts on the process and some considerations involved. 

After studying this issue I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE that America owes the descendents of Foundational Black Americans & Native Black Americans for what she did not give and refused to give to the slaves they used, sold and treated as animals and land and livestock she took.

Don't get me wrong. No White person individually owes me or us, (descendents of Foundational Black Americans and or Black descendents of Native Americans, of which I am BOTH with a traceable descendency) a dime, and I'll never look at the issue or White people as though they do.

However, our beloved nation has never failed to serve the needs of others. For example, Ukraine, to whom she has forked over $Billions$ (over $54BB) she has not balked to take our/my tax dollars and give, while telling me/us, it's for our benefit.

To top it off, through her current inept leadership, she has allowed an invasion at our southern border and given $Millions$ in grants to illegal immigrants, to whom she has also given card blanch such as jobs, credit, business start up cash, housing, and food all in the name of "humanity" and "compassion". These alleged leaders have done this and continue to do so without hinting at the irreparable harm done to our Foundational Black & Black Native American community and other poor and minority groups.

In contrast current American leadership rejects the idea of compensating those of us who can trace our descendency to those whom she bought and sold and made to serve, under brutal and inhumane conditions, all with no compensation, or those whose resources she took, without consideration, including, but not limited to, land and livestock, all without any such adequate remuneration.

Why so indifferent or so less compassionate towards addressing and correcting actions and occurances you say and we both agree that were abhorrent and that do not reflect the values that we embrace as Americans?

It's not like you don't already have the records. Under your most recent scheme of a "pandemic", you even paid dead people to stay home when you sent out alleged "economic relief" payments. You have contracted banks to tell you what we are doing with every dime of money that we allegedly earned with our own labor, and yet persist to tell us that we have "privacy".

Further, you have the most extensive record keeping ability of anyone in the world. You can tell down to the newborn exactly who is who, and what is owed to you in taxes even if we don't file. But yet you prefer to focus on benefiting them none of us know, either outside of our country, or those coming into our country for whatever reason and by whatever method imaginable.

Maybe this is to soothe your mind or keep up an alleged "reputation", I don't know, but as the gentleman you knew as Malcom X, once said, "the chicken's have come home to roost". 

No matter how we got here, we are here now. As Redd Foxx once said, we're "chocolate mocha, pecan, vanilla, yellow, mellow, light, bright, and dxxx near white". No longer do we see fit to sit silently, while you serve the needs of everyone under the sun, extend rights that our forefathers paid for to groups of people because of who they have sex with and or how they feel about themselves today, all the while brazenly backhanding the legitimate descendents of them to whom you never fulfilled your promise.

And I'll say this about Illinois, a State which legalized slavery for nearly 100 years...

The limited number of $25,000 housing grants given to a extremely limited number of residents of Evanston, IL was only a shadow of what should be considered and what is right, but it stops far short of what has been long earned and deserved by the descendents of those who suffered such abuse and misuse.

We will no longer be deceived by your news media, nor dumbed down by your politics that declares that our Blackness isn't authentic without supporting you and your agenda, when nearly everything you support, and nearly everything on your agenda undermines and confuses who we are, our values, our families and our children.

We are FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS & FOUNDATIONAL BLACK NATIVE AMERICAN DESCENDENTS and we DEMAND to be heard.

My considerations as they are.

Pastor Harvey Burnett

Proud Descendent of Ojibwa Tribal Chief John (Eshquabi) Beargrease & Foundational Black American by Lineage

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Lev. 6:4 ~ Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

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Let's Talk The TRUTH About Police Shootings, Crime & Violence

Please allow me to make this clear from the beginning... this post is not anything I have done to make friends either politically or socially, nor to seek to bolster a secular world view or politic. There have been so many misstatements, and plain out false assertions and partially true assertions regarding many of these issues, that have led to so much division within our country, that I thought it best to simply take a look at the topic addressing some of the more pertinent issues at hand. 

No, I am not a so called crime and violence expert, but I have a solid record of addressing this topic by my actions from a front line position within my community serving the hurtng and those suffering fallout from "street violence" whether that violence was perpetrated by citizens or police. 

As a Black conservative, I believe the entire conservative movement must deal with and confront the FACT that there is not only street crime, where the lawless take the lives of others, but also "Blue Crime" or Police crime as well, where those entrused with securing the community are responsible for and guilty of killing. Those who support the police tend to think it is anathema to admit that the police do kill and many times that killing IS NOT justified nor justifiable. 

Non-Justifieable Killing

Let's be honest, our major cities are off the chain with homicide. In nearly all cases Black on Black crime and violence is destroying families and our inner cities. I want you to know that nothing can justify what we are seeing.

The top 5 cities for homicide in 2022 are:

1- St Louis, MO. with a rate of 69.4/100,000

2- Baltimore, MD. with a rate of 51.1/100,000

3- New Orleans, LA. with a rate of 40.6/100,000

4- Detroit, MI. with a rate of 39.7/100,000

5- Cleveland, OH with a rate of 33.7/100,000

These are followed by LasVegas, NV at 31.4/100,000 and Kansas City, MO a rate of 31.2/100,000

No, you don't see Chicago on this list do you? They are currently 10th on the list at 24/100,000. One would assume that Chicago is relatively safe as compared. However, many make the case that the opposite is true.

Regardless of the narrative, these are the facts concerning Chicago:

Chicago, murders (which have been high over 600 in the prior 3 years) are actually UP 34% year over 2021 with over 1,300 shootings and actual year to date murders of 320. 31 of those murdered were under age 18 as of this writing with 10 dead on July 4th alone and multiple babies shot in strollers, cars and elsewhere this year. The murder rate tells a different story than what is actually happening on the ground by sheer numbers. It appears numbers can be manipulated to fit a narrative, and my contention is that WE have been victimized both by conservative media and liberal media depending upon the narrative either have chosen to push.  

As stated, I DO NOT downplay crime and violence either in Chicago or anywhere, but one should ask, seeing that Chicago IS NOT in the top 10 cities for crime and violence in 2022 based on population, why is it getting nearly all the attention? Clearly, the violence is senseless, stupid and harmful to everyone, but narratives based on population or sheer numbers tell two different stories, at least potentially. 

Manipulation Of Public Sentiment

Murder is UNJUSTIFIABLE. Babies should not be getting killed in the womb, strollers, while playing or even in their homes or anywhere. Neither should adults be killed. However, neither should  anyone who is a non violent offender, especially those who do not have guns or are not brandishing weapons or agressive behavior. They also should not be killed either by police, other members of the public nor by those in authority!

In other words, to shift the murder of the citizenry from other citizens to police authority is not justifiable. 

Jayland Walker

I want to begin by saying, I don't know who Jayland Walker was, except for what is in the news. From what I can gather, a traffic stop, led to a police foot chase, and ended in 60 fatal gun shots fired by 8 surrounding police officers at 1 unarmed, now dead 22 year old Black male who was handcuffed AFTER he was killed. This was NOT justifiable in any manner. [ I don't care if you found an UNSPENT magazine and gun in the car...the man DID NOT have a weapon on him while being shot 60 times and was certainly not shooting back with air] Then handcuffs??? UNBELIEVEABLE!!! 

What brings me to that conclusion is that we can only view Jayland's death in Akron, OH, in light of the police arrest of a White, armed murderer who recently shot and killed 7 and injured 30 people in Highland Park, IL. (No, I don't know anything about this character either except for what is in the news and Yes, like him, his victims were all White, so this was not an incident that had to do with race) This ratchet piece of a person, not only murdered innocents, but evaded police who also followed him in a short high speed chase, had multiple loaded weapons on his person and in his car at time of arrest, and was taken into custody without ONE shot being fired. And the critic says, "well, he didn't run"...well, Jayland DIDN'T MURDER!

Unequal Justice?

In my opinion YES, this is a case of unequal justice and the resolution was not commensurate with the crime in either case! Not that the clown in Highland Park should have been executed on the street like Jayland was, but a blind man can see the difference in both application and results of good policing. An anomaly? NO! This happens far too easily and often to Black citizens in particularly and the FACTS bear this out although the news media, both conservative and liberal, continue to smokescreen the whole issue as a  complaint towards either the Black community's morals and value ethics, or that these actions are a result of White supremacy and systemmic infiltration of policies and practices based on race. 

Ooh yes, it is an amazing the slight of hand that causes one to view the victim, in this case the Black community, and this young Black men in particular, as the perpetrator of their own misfortune...It is that "partial" information and slither of truth which allows many to buid a whole case either defending indefensible actions or calling for a hate filled response, rather than an effective response to the evil that we all face. We are in a society of extremism and blame, instead of balance, perspective, acceptance and growth. 

Dispelling Myths With Facts

Let's look at some facts to dispell the myths that seem to prevail when it comes to conversations regarding Blacks and their interractions with police and violencet crime in general. 

Myth 1: Blacks Offend More And Are Therefore Killed More By Police

FACT: Blacks are still the LEAST violent crime offending ethnicity, but yet account for the highest percentage of ethnicity killed by police annually.

The liberal and conservative news have used this myth so much and attempted to paint the picture from one extreme to the other. Conservatives often base their narrative on sheer numbers to obfuscate the truth here. The Left, usually base their assessment on percentage of population to bolster their position. Both (political conservatives and liberals) manage to skew the facts, to make us think certain things are normal. Political conservatives often say,"NOT TRUE. FAR MORE WHITES ARE KILLED ANNUALLY BY POLICE THAN BLACKS!"... This is a retort based on sheer numbers. But does that tell the story? 

Understanding The Narrative

Yes, it is true. More Whites are killed by police annually than Blacks based on sheer numbers, but I contend those using this narrative solely to justify the actions of police are using the WRONG METRIC and making FALSE ASSUMPTIONS to make the assessment. Both news media presentations (liberal and conservative) base their reporting on sheer numbers, and they both interpret sheer numbers to their advantage, playing the public. However, as stated sheer numbers only tell part of the story.

Here's what we know: Blacks represent only 13% of population and Black males 6.1% of total US Population. So anytime we see Blacks, especially Black men, leading any category by sheer numbers, there is a greater percentage of the community effected. The math is simple...1 out of 3 (33%) is greater than 2 out of 5 (20%) but 2 is greater than 1 considering numbers only.

Therefore a much better way to assess and evaluate what is really going on with violent crime is by looking at the RATE of SHOOTINGS (killings) per million or per 100,000 of population rather than by sheer numbers. Although one should be cautions about this approach, as I have explained above regarding Chicago and violent crime. Generally, when one uses this approach, amazing information is produced:

Myth Dispelling FACTS:

Blacks are shot and killed at the hand of the police at a 37/million rate 

Hispanics are shot and killed at the hand of the police at a 28/million rate

Whites are shot and killed at the hand of the police at a 15/million rate 

Yes, Whites are killed by police at higher sheer numbers because the population is greater, but they are killed at a less rate than Blacks and Hispanics, at least by police. So for one to be concerned over this issue is not some type of false narrative or over the top rant. It is a real situation borne out by the facts. 

ADDITIONAL Myth Dispelling FACTS:

In 2021,

Blacks accounted for 33% of all arrests for non fatal violent crime. 

Whites accounted for 46% of all arrests for non fatal violent crime.

Blacks were 36% of all arrests for serious non fatal violent crime

Whites were 39% of all arrests for serious non fatal violent crime.

Now, these numbers are not based on population. They are based on all arrests made, which has nothing to do with a racial population or demographic. News often skew numbers and create a case for race based moral ethics by blurring the line and using numbers such as these to suggest percentage of population or demographic.

You don't hear on ANY news, liberal or conservative that Blacks are arrested less for non fatal violent crime and serious non fatal violent crimes than Whites. The narrative is always different and tends to say that Blacks are not only arrested more, they also offend more in every category...While NONE of these crimes are good and all of the offenders should be prosecuted to the highest, the facts is that Blacks are a least non violent and serious non violent criminally offensive ethnic group, even less than Whites by comparison. 

Police In Fear

So WHY is the fear of a Black man running away, so much and so until 8 officers unload their clips to the tune of 60 bullets any one of those bullets fatal, into an unarmed offender? 

YEP...YOU DON'T LIKE ME ON THIS ONE DO YOU?!?!?!

The answer to policing a community is not easy. Humans, that are prone to error and misjudgement, are at the wheel. What is additionally problematic is the blind allegience to partyline politics and desire to display some seemingly moral superiority depending upon what side of the issue one is on. However, people, fellow citizens, not all of whom are either criminals nor engaged in criminal activity, are caught in the middle, fed a line of garbage and used for propaganda's sake. 

FINAL WORD

Even though I have no regard or honor for the Black Lives Matter organization, amazingly they were able to sieze on this issue and dupe the American public and American businesses out of millions of dollars, go on to buy their homes, cars and vacations and otherwise live lavish lifestyles without giving anything to victims or victims families (I don't have enough time or energy to rehash all the absolute GARBAGE they did, but you already know...) Additionally, some claim that attorney's such as Ben Crump and activists such as Al Sharpton are nothing more than "race baiters", which, in my opinion is another way of saying "BLACK MAN SHUT UP and enjoy the "comforts" that you have"., which seems to be a run of the mill conservative sentiment every time a Black man speaks up on this and
related issues pointing towards race.  

Yes, these are extreme sentiments. It is said on one hand we should support police no matter what. On the other hand everything police do should come under scruitiny. On one hand racism is inescapeable and woven into the fabric or all that we do (alas CRT), but on the other hand racism is not an issue and has no effect on our everyday lives. Both sides will offer their version of the narrative to support their views, but neither extreme is better than the other and both extremes are incorrect and in my opinion, immoral. 

There is room for police accountability. Their is room for police improvement. Their is room for better citizen responsibility. There is room for activism on the issues and it is disengenuous to write off those who seek accountability as "race baiters" or "trouble makers" by assuming  that those who speak up have some nefarious motive, simply because you don't like them or don't appreciate their perspective. It is that perspective that you may just need to hear in order to understand, address and solve the issue. 

Blessed! 

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Blacks, Trained Racists Towards Other Black Men = Woke Racism

“We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.” ...“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.” ~ US Supreme Court 6/24/2022

In the recent Supreme Court decision spearheaded by Justice Samuel Alito, that did not eliminate abortion, but correctly sent abortion back to the States to administer, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued the following sentiment:

“(In) future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold [contraception], Lawrence [sodomy], and Obergefell [same-sex marriage]. Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents.”...“After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.” ~ Justice Clarence Thomas concurring 6/24/2002

Immediately gay rights advocates and anti-conservative pundits claimed that Thomas's position and the Court's aim was to overturn and torpedo Gay Marriage (which was also a process of Supreme Court action rather than States legislative and due process). 

Clarification: In Thomas's statement he opines, not rules, that all such cases, which generally have no basis within Constitutional law, such as abortion, which is NOT nor has ever been a fundamental Constitutional right, should all be settled by States and that such decisions should be managed at State level. Thomas basically affirmed that the Court should rethink how it came to conclusions in similar cases based on and implementation of similar legal theories and reasoning used to reverse the near 50 year old unconstitutional precedent establish in the Roe v Wade case. Justice Thomas is not attempting to reverse or negate any rights, but he is considering that the Court's mission should be based on and rooted in supporting and fomenting Constitutional rights.

The (IM)Moral Outrage!  

The result was a ridiculous amount of criticism towards the Court, and Justice Thomas in particular, levied from the political and social left. I mean we have politicians, all of whom have made oaths to uphold the Constitution, now REDEFINING the Constitution to suit their anger and demanding the Justices, who are to be independent of politics and protest to follow their whims. Some of these politicians, who took that oath are now claiming that the court is now an "illigitimate" institution (even though the Court is defined within the same Constitutional document they have been sworn to uphold) but they now say that the Court needs to be either dumped or expanded. Dare anyone say the same about the Presidency!

Moral Sentiments Revealed

However, what is really striking is that Black Americans, who allegedly and historically decry racism against Black Americans, especially when that racism is perpetuated by the "establishment", have followed the same path of racism and criticism that we have seen historically. This is the criticism, of all people, of the Black male Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Black Racism Towards Other Blacks 

It took no time to see what has been the primary dysfunction of Black America. First, some pathetic and out of touch, Black religious leaders, who either have no clue or simply don't care as to the damage that abortion has done to the Black community for nearly 50 years. As I point out in our article at In Defense Of The Faith, abortion has been tied deeply to Margaret Sanger's eugenics goals, the Negro Project, and the suppression of Black births and has caused (by conservative efforts) the death of nearly 800 Black babies per day. This is nearly 13 million Black children killed through the process of abortion. So many until the Black community, which was once the 1st largest minority in America is now the 2nd largest and slipping with a birthrate nearly eclipsed by deathrate. The fact is that Planned Parenthood, the organization started and led by Sanger, has NEVER over the same peoriod of time distanced themselves in an open and public statement against Sanger's goals.  

Statistics and facts don't seem to matter to many of the Black community's leaders however. Combined with other sins which have made their way into law, the abortion issue appears to create some type of unholy grail of sins which, according to the critics, should not be criticized in society. To speak against and on these things label one as insensitive, unloving, uncaring and angry and cause critics to revert to the same racism that they say they oppose. 

Here are some of the epithets that have been hurled at Justice Thomas by other Black individuals who don;t agree with his jurisprudence either on Roe or homosexual marriage. 

"Classic Uncle Tom nxxxer"
"Uncle Clarence"
"Stupid nxxger"
" Just another Stephen" (referring to a character in the movie Django)
"A classic Uncle Ruckus"
"Coon axx nxxxer"

Aside from the fact that even Blacks don't understand who and what "Uncle Tom" actually represented (he was actually a Black hero FOR saving the women in the story, but White racists would go on to later rewrite the story in effort to convince Blacks that Uncle Tom was a negative character) These were comments from many Black people as they took to the internet bent on displaying their moral outrage and obvious mental weakness. Without a doubt, all of these comments were designed to foment and perpetuate a negative image of a Justice Thomas who dared buck against alleged "Black culture" which seemingly has been hijacked by some of the most liberal and anti-moral values. 

The Liberal Racist Sentiment Still Awoke & Alive

The left leaning liberal White person has done no better and no more than show their latent and overt racism on full display.  For example, "I ain't no ways tired" Hillary Clinton in a recent interview, claimed to have had an association with Clarence Thomas in Law School well enough to establish that he was the "angry person of grievence".."full of resentment" and "anger"aka: An Angry Black Man

What's Behind The ANGER?

You're an ANGRY BLACK! Just because your views or opions are inconsistent with others and you decide to verbalize them and not waffel or compromise, as a Black man, you're considered ANGRY when you demand that others get off your feet and stop stepping on your toes...in fact you're considered "angry" when you do your job with excellence, and consistency and tolerate no less than the best from your counterparts.

[On a personal note, I have worked at many levels in society and when a Black Man, such as myself, is opinionated against the "group-think" and adheres to his position or questions traditional authority, especially the authority imposed by Whites in general, THIS is the exact label that is applied. Most certainly I have been called an "angry Black man" due to my position on various subject matter over time. This is a classic racist filled sentiment.]

Although I don't know Justice Thomas, I do understand the commentary and Clinton's comments were no more than her latent RACISM come to the surface and played out publicly and many of her friends, associates and fellow liberal, left leaning wokies, fully agreed with her sentiments, as many of them approach Black men and the Black community in a stereotypical fasion, and have no respect for the non homogeneous nature of the community.

WOKE RACISM Doesn't Go Without Notice 

This issue certainly hasn't gone without notice. Newsweek Opinion Columnist David Morrow points out in his 6/27/22 Opinion piece, Clarence Thomas has been called some of the most racist things by Whites since this opinion has been released. While I don't know if accounts on Facebook and Twitter have been closed as a result of the open name calling and racist rants against him, here are some additional comments hurled at this Black, educated Supreme Court Justice as documented
by Mr. Morrow:

"A dirty rich porch monkey"
"A coon ass mutha fxxxer"
"...another dumb field nxxxer"
"Clarence Thomas is still a nxxxer slave to his White nutcase wife Ginni Thomas..."

The Anti-Racists" Have Left The Room

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ANTI-RACISTS? As stated these comments were made openly and publicly allegedly by White people and according to the author, they were and are liberal, left leaning White people. These are the ones who believe that every devience, whether real or imagined, should have its own Constitutional right. The ones who create words such as "homophobia" and "transphobic" to label and brand those who don't believe in the endorsement of sexual sin or any other deviant proclivity, but they have showed the TRUE colors here and it is still tantamount to HATE, SIN, & EVIL 

You see the same ones who preach "inclusion" don't really want inclusion, they want full surrender!

They want you and I to stop believing what we believe, and stop being independent of their ideology, and if you are Black, in particularly a Black man, stop spouting ideas, values and concepts that aren't aligned with the narrative fed to Black people and the Black community by those chosen to spread such message, that homosexualism should be embraced, that transgenderism is good and that aborting babies is a good practice, in fact, as they contend, abortion (not good medical care) saves the lives of Black women!!!

Stay on the Plantation

These are the people who want you and I to endose and encourage their lunacy, sin and degridation. They want us to be quiet about drag shows and open acts pedophilia. They want silence as they make cartoon characters gay and transexual, call pregnant women, "birthing people" and can't define what a woman is! {back to the subject at hand}... In other words, the reason they can revert to their underlying racism so easily against Blacks who don't agree with them, is because they have never really stopped being racist themselves, they have always been intimidated by Black men, and they want Blacks to believe that thinking as a conservative on issues, and poilitics is evil, a betrayal of being "Black" and out of touch. These are the true sentiments and resiidue of  White Supremacy IF such exists at all. Individuals such as these have kept their little racist underlings by confusing the message in the news and lieing consistently and so much so until we begin to believe what they say is true and question what we actually know is true. 

It's DON'T LEAVE THE PLANTATION for many of these. It's stay where "WE" can reach you. It's "YOU AIN'T BLACK IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR ME" that the Black community took like a fish on a hook for Joe Biden in the Presidential election as he ordained a Vice President who disavowed her association with Black Americans claiming her "Asian" half...but Black people still yet claim otherwise, because the liberal White dominated news media says so!

But you know this blog...as bad as the world is, some in the church are WORSE! I could go further, but I'll leave it there for now, to give these FAKE bishops and alleged spiritual leaders time to repent...Nope, we're not wrestling against flesh and blood. But flesh and blood is carrying out some acts that must be preached and taught against if we are to save this society and our community. 

Hope this has enlightend some, angered others and stirred each! 

More to come, for sure!

Blessed!

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