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Regrann from @presiusa - On the 4th of July while many Americans celebrate our National Independence Day, many of us greet this holiday with indifference & cynicism. For those of us that believe in the message of Independence, Freedom, Justice & Equality, it's hard to be patriotic when civil rights abuses by trigger-happy police go unpunished, prison reform is ignored, & our education system sets us up for indebtedness rather than fiscal freedom. In 2018, these American ideals aren't lost causes, but rather goals that we're still striving to make the societal norm. • • 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 • • #urbanamericana #streetstyle #america #makeamericagreatforall #freedom #unity #strongertogether - #regrann

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“Make America Great Again for Me and Those Who Look Like Me and  Reverse Anything the has Made America Better For Those Who Are Not Like Me”

Are Americans really so eager to repeat past mistakes in racism? Has anyone noticed that the “Make America Great Again” slogan never states a year? The entire slogan actually should read this way “Make America Great Again for Me and Those Who Look Like Me and  Reverse Anything the has Made America Better For Those Who Are Not Like Me”. When in American history was it great for everyone? I submit  for your contemplation, a history lesson:

From the beginning of the European colonization of the Americas, Europeans often removed native peoples from lands they wished to occupy. The means varied, including voluntary moves based on mutual agreement, treaties made under considerable duress, forceful ejection, and violence. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 set up the systematization of US federal government policy which forcibly moved Native populations away from European-populated areas. In the South, the mass migration to what is now Oklahoma, came to be known as the Trail of Tears. In 1851, the United States Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which authorized the creation of Indian reservations to completely segregate this population. (Bureau of Indian Affairs)

Slavery in the United States, the institution of human chattel that existed in the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American Civil War, had been practiced in British North America from early colonial days. By the time of the American Revolution (1775–83), the status of slave had been institutionalized as a racial caste associated with African ancestry.  The the cotton industry in the Deep South after the invention of the cotton gin increased demand for slave labor, and the Southern states attempted to extend it into the new Western territories in order to keep their share of political power in the nation. More than one million slaves were sold from the Upper South and taken to the Deep South in a forced migration, splitting up many families.  With emancipation a legal reality, white Southerners were concerned with both controlling the newly freed slaves and keeping them in the labor force at the lowest level. (W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Harvard University)

The system of convict leasing began during Reconstruction and was fully implemented in the 1880s and officially ending in the last state, Alabama, in 1928. It persisted in various forms until it was abolished in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, several months after the attack on Pearl Harbor involved the U.S. in the conflict. This system allowed private contractors to purchase the services of convicts from the state or local governments for a specific time period. African Americans, due to "vigorous and selective enforcement of laws and discriminatory sentencing," made up the vast majority of the convicts leased. (The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon) Some would argue, that the privatation of our nations penitentiary system continues this pratices which insiduous precision in order to secure a cheap labor source especially in places like Louisiana.

The internment of Japanese Americans  in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country) of between 110,000 and 120,000 people, sixty-two percent of whom were United States citizens. The internment is considered to have resulted more from racism than from any security risk posed by Japanese Americans. In 1980,  President Jimmy Carter opened an investigation and appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) to investigate the camps.  The Personal Justice Denied report found little evidence of Japanese disloyalty, concluded that the incarceration had been the product of racism and recommended that the government pay reparations to the survivors.  Civil Liberties Act, which Reagan signed in 1988, apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 to each individual camp survivor while admitting that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership." (Densho Encyclopedia)

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These are just a few examples of the attempt to use racial bias as an abuse of power.  Encourage your neighbors to actively campaign for a new slogan, regardless of their political affiliations: “MAKE America Great for All...Finally!”

Donna Addison Haseltine, COO                                                                          Black on Purpose Television Network