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Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 9:14PM
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Did you watch the hearing Ron? Steve (Col. Sanders) Cohen is just the type this hearing was about.

Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 9:42PM
Steve Williams
Steve, focus your attention on the material in this blog, can you do that?


Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 9:57PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Lawmakers are hearing new testimony on slave reparations from 2020 contender Cory Booker, Danny Glover and others. Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School, Maya Wiley, joins Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle to break down what reparations could look like, who is for it,
Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 10:26PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
It was an embarrassing display by the Democrats.

Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 11:47PM
Steve Williams


What Do Slave Reparations Mean?

SUBJECT

"......Lawmakers are hearing new testimony on slave reparations others..... Stephanie Ruhle to break down what

reparations could look like, who is for it...."

Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 10:26PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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It was an embarrassing display by the Democrats.

Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 11:47PM
Steve Williams

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Reparations in principle would - In Theory - Monetarily give value in 2019+ for sins of 1776-1868

1. PAY AfricanAmerican descendants of slaverAmericana..(1776-1868) by COLOREDwhiteUSAcitizens'

2. PAY for the sins of slaver-rape/torture/murder by COLOREDwhiteUSAcitizens' against AfricanAsian Slaves

3. AfricanAsians slaves made subhuman and treated subhuman in the "in the name of Jesus" 1776-1868

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...…...NOW that FOLKS is real-2019 FAKE NEWS.....FAKE - IMPOSSIBLE madness

The FAKE NEWS and the BIA FakeNews PASTER of COLORED'whiteOpinions' SHOULD be EMBARRASSED

….Reparations in the Historical Scholastic sense were SUGGESTED by Abraham Lincoln to those that had

been AfricanAsian slaves before the Civil War to COLORED'whiteSupremists'

..."40 Acres and a Mule" for the AfricanAsian slaves' rape, torture, SM, murder by paganChristians in America...

THAT request was NEVER Passed as law by USA CONGRESS upon CIVIL WAR end OR when AfricanAsian

slaves were granted USA Citizenry in 1868...…

…bleeding heart COLORED'whiteLiberals"...who NEVER brought this up 1868-2018 and VOTED for trump$ette 2016

NOW want USA 300,000,000 Million gun owners to "react" as trump$ette MAGA guys/gals do to 'theBlacks'

….Oh, No...the Tricks that the COLORED'whiteOpinionBleedingHeartLiberals' play on AfricanAmericans

" Can the devil fool an Educated African American?.....NOT NOW ADAYS!"

...STOP IT....with the COLORED'whiteOpinons' pasted at This African American Family site....


Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 8:31AM
robert powell
Het robert, did you see any of this video material on this blog?
Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 8:39AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
YOUR WORDS STEVE: It was an embarrassing display by the Democrats.

MY REPLY: Steve, what is embarrassing about celebrating the end of slavery in this country?

What is embarrassing about discussing the wrongs that effects Black Americans throughout the history of this country Steve?

What is embarrassing about discussing programs to increase Economically and Educationally conditions of Black Americans in this country Steve?

What is embarrassing about Senator Booker talking about statistic on race in the country?

What is embarrassing about exposing the lie that Reparations Means writing a check from one American and giving it to another?

What is embarrassing about that Steve?

Please answer those questions because I want to understand your point.




Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 9:51AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Nobody on your side was celebrating the end of slavery. Listen to the testimony of Burgess Owens and you will hear a welcome contrast to the victimhood touted by the Democrats and their witnesses. Maybe someday you will be embarrassed too Ron.

Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 2:17PM
Steve Williams
Since Ali and Stephanie don't want you to hear it you can listen here.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?461767-1/hou...

Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 2:21PM
Steve Williams
One exception to the general groveling was Danny Glover's opening statement. I thought it was very moving.

Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 2:25PM
Steve Williams
I for one encourage the opinion of Burgess Owens, to express his views Steve, that was the purpose of hearing of new testimony on slave reparations and no embarrassment is needed, felt or meant by this discussion of Reparations.

YES!!! Danny Glover's opening statement was heart felt, very moving and on the point of this discussion.

Thank You for this link.

Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 3:12PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

THE ATLANTIC. HE WROTE AN EXTENSIVE PIECE ON THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS. I BELIEVE HE ADDRESSED THE COLLEGE ON THE SUBJECT. HE'S THE AUTHOR OF THREE BOOKS AND NUMEROUS ARTICLES. MR. COATES, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND YOU'RE RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES.

YESTERDAY WHEN I ASKED ABOUT REPARATIONS, MITCH McCONNELL OFFERED A FAMILIAR REPLY. AMERICA SHOULD NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED 150 YEARS AGO SINCE NONE OF US CURRENTLY ALIVE ARE RESPONSIBLE. THIS REBUTTAL PROFFERS A STRANGE THEORY OF GOVERNANCE THAT AMERICAN ARE COUNT TO THE LIFETIME OF ITS GENERATION. WELL INTO THE CENTURY THE UNITED STATES WAS STILL PAYING OUT PENSIONS TO THE A HAIRS OF CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS. TREATIES THAT DATE BACK SOME 200 YEARS DESPITE NO ONE BEING ALIVE WHO SIGNED THOSE TREATIES. MANY OF US WOULD LOVE TO BE TAXED FOR THE THINGS WE ARE SOLELY AND INDIVIDUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR.

BUT WE ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THUS BOUND TO A COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISE THAT EXTENDS BEYOND OUR INDIVIDUAL AND PERSONAL REACH. IT WOULD SEEM RIDICULOUS TO DISSPUT THE GREAT ESTROGEN RATION ON A BASIS OF LACK OF MEMBERSHIP IN EITHER GROUP. WE RECOGNIZE OUR LINEAGE AS A GENERATIONAL TRUST, AS INHERITANCE AND THE REAL DLEMILEMMA POSED BY REPARATIONS IS JUST THAT. A DILEMMA OF INHERITANCE. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE AMERICA WITHOUT THE INHERITANCE OF SLAVERY. AS HISTORIAN ED BAPTIST HAS WRITTEN, ENSLAVEMENT SHAPED EVERY ASPECT OF THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS OF AMERICA SO THAT BY 1836 MORE THAN 600 MILLION, ALMOST HALF OF THE THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES DERIVED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE COTTON PRODUCED BY THE MILLION ODD SLAVES. BY THE TIME THE ENSLAVED WERE MANS NAT PATZED. THEY COMPRISED THE LARGEST ASSET IN AMERICA. $3 BILLION, MORE THAN ALL THE OTHER ASSETS OF THE COUNTRY COMBINED. THE METHOD OF CULTIVATING THIS ASSET WAS NEITHER GENTLE CON JOLTING NOR PERSUASION, BUT TORTURE, RAPE AND CHILD TRAFFICKING. ENSLAVEMENT REIGNED FOR 250 YEARS ON THESE SHORES. WHEN IT ENDED THIS COUNTRY COULD HAVE EXTENDED ITS HOLLOW PRINCIPLES, LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS TO ALL REGARDLESS OF COLOR. BUT AMERICA HAD OTHER PRINCIPLES IN MIND. AND SO FOR A CENTURY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, BLACK PEOPLE WERE SUBJECT TO A RELENTLESS CAMPAIGN OF TERROR. TERROR. A CAMPAIGN THAT EXTENDED WELL INTO THE LIFETIME OF MAJORITY LEADER McCONNELL. IT'S TEMPTING TO DIVORCE THIS MODERN CAMPAIGN OF TERROR, OF PLUNDER, FROM ENSLAVE MEANT WITH THE LOGIC OF ENSLAVEMENT OF WHITE SUPREMACY RESPECTS NO SUCH BORDERS AND THE GUARD OF BONDAGE WAS LUSTFUL AND BEGAT MANY HEIRS. VA PROGRAM VA VAGRAN VAGRANCY LAWS. McCONNELL WASN'T ALIVE FOR THE APPOTAMOX. HE WAS ALIVE TO WITNESS THINGS IN ALABAMA AND ELECTORAL THEFT.

MAJORITY LEADER McCONNELL CITED CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION YESTERDAY AS WELL HE SHOULD BECAUSE HE WAS ALIVE TO WITNESS THE HARASSMENT, JAILING AND BETRAYAL OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT LEGISLATION BY GOVERNMENT SWORN TO PROTECT THEM. HE WAS ALIVE FOR THE RED LINING OF CHICAGO AND THE LOOTING OF BLACK HOMEOWNERS OF SOME $4 BILLION. VICTIMS OF THEIR PLUNDER, ARE VERY MUCH ALIVE TODAY. I AM SURE THEY WOULD LOVE A WORD WITH THE MAJORITY LEADER. WHAT THEY KNOW THAT THIS COMMITTEE MUST KNOW IS THAT WHILE EMANCIPATION DEAD BOLTED THE DOOR AGAINST THE BANDITS OF AMERICA, JIM CROW WEDGED THE WINDOWS WIDE-OPEN. THAT'S THE THING ABOUT SENATOR McCONNELL'S SOMETHING. IT WAS 150 YEARS AGO. IT WAS RIGHT NOW. TYPICAL BLACK FAMILY IN THIS COUNTRY HAS ONE TENTH THE WEALTH OF A TYPICAL WHITE WOMEN. BLACK WOMEN DIE IN CHILD BIRTH AT FOUR TIMES THE RIGHT OF WHITE WOMEN. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE ENSLAVED MAKE UP THE LARGEST SHARE OF IMPRISONMENT. THE MATTER OF REPARATIONS IS ONE OF MAKING AMENDS AND DIRECT REDRESS BUT ALSO A QUESTION OF CITIZENSHIP. HR-40 THIS BODY HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD ON ITS 2009 APOLOGY FOR ENSLAVEMENT AND REJECT FAIR WEATHER PATRIOTISM SO SAY THAT NATION IS BOTH ITS CREDITS AND DEBITS. THAT IF THOMAS JEFFERSON MATTERS SO DOES SALLY HEMMINGS. IF D-DAY MATTERS SO DOES BLACK WALL STREET. IF VALLEY FORGE MATTERS SO DOES FORT PILLOW. THE QUESTION REALLY IS NOT WHETHER WE'LL BE TIED TO THE SOMETHINGS OF OUR PAST BUT WHETHER WE'RE COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO BE TIED TO THE WHOLE OF THEM. THANK YOU. THANK
Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 3:35PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Burgess Owens
THE 2016 BOOK "LIBERALISM." IT OFFERS A HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES. HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, AND MR. OWENS YOU'RE RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. I'M GOING TO TAKE A DIFFERENT TACK FROM THE BEGINNING. WE'RE AT THIS POINT, THIS IS NOT ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE, RICH AND POOR, BLUE COLLAR, WHITE COLLAR, WE'RE FIGHTING FOR THE HEART OF OUR NATION. WE HAVE A V-VERY SPECIAL COUNTRY THAT ALLOWS EVERY GENERATION TO BECOME BETTER THAN THE LAST. IT HAS NOT ENDED OR STOPPED UNTIL NOW. WE TELL OUR KIDS THERE WILL BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. THEY DON'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAD. WE TALK ABOUT SOME IDEOLOGIES. WHEN I TALK ABOUT THEM, I'M TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE. PEOPLE CHANGE. I USED TO BE A DEMOCRAT UNTIL I DID MY HISTORY AND FOUND OUT THE MISERY THAT THAT PARTY BROUGHT TO MY RACE. SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT THESE IDEOLOGIES, IDEOLOGIES DON'T CHANGE, PEOPLE DO. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR THE HEART AND SOUL OF OUR NATION AGAINST SOCIALISM, MARXISM AND AN EVIL THAT'S BROUGHT TO US AND STEALING OF OUR HISTORY.

KARL MARX SAID IT BEST. AN ATHEIST, ANTI-SEMITE AND A BLATANT RACIST BUT WE TEACH HIS PHILOSOPHY IN OUR COOLS TODAY. HE SAID THE FIRST BATTLEGROUND IS REWRITING OF OUR HISTORY. YOU STEAL OUR HISTORY, YOU STEAL THE PRIDE OF OUR PAST, OUR VISION FOR OUR FUTURE AND. EVERY SINGLE URBAN CITY IN OUR COUNTRY IS NOW EXPERIENCING THAT LOSS. I'M BLESSED TO BE THE GREAT-GREAT FATHER WHO CAME HERE ON A SLAVE SHIP TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA WITH HIS MOTHER TO THE BURGESS PLANTATION. AN EVIL, EVIL MAN THAT DROVE MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER LEAVING HER FAMILY OF KIDS OR COMMITTING SUICIDE. WE DON'T KNOW. SHE DISAPPEARED. AT AGE OF 8 HE WAS BLESSED TO BE SURROUNDED BY MEN WHO BELIEVED IN FREEDOM EVEN THOUGH SHACKLED THEY ESCAPED, THEY WENT THE SOUTHERN ROUTE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FACILITATED BY WHITE AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS. MADE HIS WAY SOUTH TO TEXAS, ENDED UP BEING A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR ON 102 ACRES OF LAND PAID OFF IN TWO YEARS. STARTED FIRST BLACK CHURCH, FIRST BLACK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PILLAR OF HIS COMMUNITY, 18 KIDS, CHRISTIAN, REPUBLICAN, HE WAS A PROUD AMERICAN AND AN EXAMPLE WHAT HAPPENS ANY CULTURE, RACE IS GIVEN HOPE, OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM. IT DOESN'T END THERE BY THE WAY. THE HISTORY OF OUR BLACK COUNTRY, BLACK AMERICA HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM US FOR DECADES ALMOST OVER A CENTURY. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BEGAN TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY.

KARL MARX SAID IT BEST. AN ATHEIST, ANTI-SEMITE AND A BLATANT RACIST BUT WE TEACH HIS PHILOSOPHY IN OUR COOLS TODAY. HE SAID THE FIRST BATTLEGROUND IS REWRITING OF OUR HISTORY. YOU STEAL OUR HISTORY, YOU STEAL THE PRIDE OF OUR PAST, OUR VISION FOR OUR FUTURE AND. EVERY SINGLE URBAN CITY IN OUR COUNTRY IS NOW EXPERIENCING THAT LOSS. I'M BLESSED TO BE THE GREAT-GREAT FATHER WHO CAME HERE ON A SLAVE SHIP TO CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA WITH HIS MOTHER TO THE BURGESS PLANTATION. AN EVIL, EVIL MAN THAT DROVE MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER LEAVING HER FAMILY OF KIDS OR COMMITTING SUICIDE. WE DON'T KNOW. SHE DISAPPEARED. AT AGE OF 8 HE WAS BLESSED TO BE SURROUNDED BY MEN WHO BELIEVED IN FREEDOM EVEN THOUGH SHACKLED THEY ESCAPED, THEY WENT THE SOUTHERN ROUTE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FACILITATED BY WHITE AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS. MADE HIS WAY SOUTH TO TEXAS, ENDED UP BEING A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR ON 102 ACRES OF LAND PAID OFF IN TWO YEARS. STARTED FIRST BLACK CHURCH, FIRST BLACK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PILLAR OF HIS COMMUNITY, 18 KIDS, CHRISTIAN, REPUBLICAN, HE WAS A PROUD AMERICAN AND AN EXAMPLE WHAT HAPPENS ANY CULTURE, RACE IS GIVEN HOPE, OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM. IT DOESN'T END THERE BY THE WAY. THE HISTORY OF OUR BLACK COUNTRY, BLACK AMERICA HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM US FOR DECADES ALMOST OVER A CENTURY. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BEGAN TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY. BY 1905, THERE WERE MORE SELF-MADE BLACK MILLIONAIRES. THE '40s AND '50s AND '60s LED OUR COUNTRY THE GROWTH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. MEN COMMITTED TO MARRIAGE OVER 70%. NOW IT'S 30%. LED OUR COUNTRY IN TERMS OF COMMITMENT TO BUSINESS OWNERSHIP, 40%. NOW IT'S 3. 8%. MEN MATRICULATED FROM COLLEGE. MORE MEN AREINCARCERATED. BY DEGREE WAS BIOLOGY. I LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO SLAVERY IS NOT A GENE IN THE DNA HELIX. IT'S OUR ACTIONS, OUR ATTITUDE, OUR BELIEFS. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN RAEPG. IT POINT TO A CERTAIN RACE AND COLOR AND POINTS THE OTHER RACE, MY RACE AS ONE THAT IS NOT ONLY RACIST BUT ALSO BEGGARS.

I DO BELIEVE IN RESTITUTION. LET'S POINT TO THE PARTY THAT WAS PART OF SLAVERY, KKK, JIM CROW THAT KILLED OVER 40% OF OUR BLACK BABIES, 20 MILLION OF THEM. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 75% OF OUR BLACK BOYS CAN'T PAST STANDARD READING AND WRITING TEST. DEMOCRATIC STATE. LET'S PAY REPARATION. LET'S PAY RESTITUTION. HOW ABOUT A DEMOCRATIC PARTY PAY FOR ALL THE MISERY BROUGHT TO MY RACE AND THOSE AFTER WE LEARN OUR HISTORY TO DECIDE TO STAY THERE THEY SHOULD PAY ALSO THEY ARE COMPLICIT AND EVERY WHITE AMERICAN REPUBLICAN OR DEMONSTRATEDEMOCRAT THAT FEELS GUILTY BECAUSE OF YOUR WHITE SKIN SHOULD PAY ALSO. THIS COUNTRY HAS GIVEN US GREATNESS. LOOK AT THIS PANEL. DOESN'T MATTER OUR COLLAR OR HOW WE THINK. WE'VE BECOME SUCCESSFUL LIKE NO OTHER BECAUSE OF THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE THE AMERICAN.



Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 3:44PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Danny Glover
YOU, MR. COATES. NEXT WITNESS IS MR. DANNY GLOVER. ACTOR, PRODUCER AND ACTIVIST FOR VARIOUS CAUSES, HE'S CURRENTLY GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR UNICEF. AND A FRIEND OF HARRY BELAFONTE. YOU'RE RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES. THANK YOU, MR. COATES. IT'S NOT OFTEN THAT YOU HEAR THE WORDS OF A YOUNG MAN, AND THEY ENLIVEN YOUR EMOTIONAL MEMORY AND HISTORIC MEMORY AS HE DID JUST THIS MOMENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M DEEPLY HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY OFFERING MY TESTIMONY AT THIS HISTORIC MEETING ABOUT THE RECKONING OF A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, THAT IS FOUNDATIONAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY AND MATERIAL WELL BEING IN THIS COUNTRY. NATIONAL REPARATIONS POLICY IS A MORAL DEMOCRATIC AND ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE. I SIT HERE AS THE GREAT-GRANDSON OF A FORMER SLAVE, MARY BROWN, WHO WAS FREED BY THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ON JANUARY 1st, 1863. I HAD THE FORTUNE OF MEETING HER AS A SMALL CHILD. I ALSO SIT HERE AS THE GRANDSON OF RUFUS MACK. MY MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS BOTH WERE BORN BEFORE THE FERGUSON DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURT IN 1896 AND FOR A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THEIR LIVES THEY WORKED AS SHARE CROPPERS AND TENANT FARMERS IN RURAL GEORGIA UNTIL THEY WERE ABLE TO SAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PURCHASE A SMALL FARM.

DESPITE MUCH PROGRESS OVER THE CENTURIES, THIS HEARING IS YET ANOTHER IMPORTANT STEP IN THE LONG AND HEROIC STRUGGLE OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, REPARATIONS FOR DAMAGES INFLICTED BY ENSLAVEMENT, EMANCIPATION AND RACIAL EXCLUSIONARY POLICIES. MANY OF THE ORGANIZES WHO WERE PRESENT TODAY AT THIS HEARING ARE AMONGST THE HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PRESENT NATIONAL DISCOURSE, CONGRESSIONAL DELIBERATIONS, AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN POLICY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT REPARATIONS. WE ALSO INDEBTED TO THE WORK OF CONGRESS, JOHN CONYERS FOR SHEPHERDING THIS LEGISLATION, THE ADOPTION OF HR-40 CAN BE A SIGNATURE LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT, ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. WE SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT THE COMMON MARKET NATIONS AND THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY REPARATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRED BY PROFESSOR SIR HILLARY BECKLES WHO IS HERE WITH US TODAY HAS EXERCISED A LEADERSHIP ROLE FROM WHICH WE AS A NATION CAN BENEFIT. OUR SUSTAINED DIRECT EFFECTIVE POLICY ACTIONS AND FULL COLLABORATION WITH AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND PROGRESSIVE CITIZENS, ALLIES, IS THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF THE SINCERITY OF OUR NATION COMMITMENT TO REPAIR THE DAMAGES OF THE LEGALLY AND OFTEN RELIGIOUSLY SANCTIONED INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY, SEGREGATION AND RACISM THAT LIMIT FULL PARTICIPATION AND MATERIAL ADVANCEMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND OF OUR COUNTRY'S PROGRESS AS A BEACON OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY. SO I CALL ON ALL OF THE ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN CONGRESS TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR COMMITMENT IN ACTION TODAY AND STAND FORTH WITH CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON-LEE AND CO-SIGN HR-40.

IN CLOSING, I CLOSE WITH INSIGHTFUL AND STILL RELEVANT WORDS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. OF 1968. AND I QUOTE, WHY IS THE ISSUE OF EQUALITY STILL SO FAR FROM SOLUTION IN AMERICA? A NATION WHICH PROFESSES ITSELF TO BE DEMOCRATIC, INVENTIVE, HOSPITABLE AND POWERFUL. JUSTICE FOR BLACK PEOPLE WILL NOT FLOW INTO SOCIETY MERELY FROM COURT DECISIONS OR PUBLIC ORATORY NOR WILL A FEW TOKEN CHANGES WILL QUELL THE YEARNINGS OF MILLIONS OF DISADVANTAGED BLACK PEOPLE. WHY AMERICA MUST RECOGNIZE THAT JUSTICE FOR BLACK PEOPLE CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT RADICAL CHANGES IN.


Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 3:49PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
If you missed seeing this House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Slavery Reparations, I recommend that you take the time to review this LINK: https://www.c-span.org/video/?461767-1/hou... for your greater understanding about this topic.


Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 3:56PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

What Do Slave Reparations Mean?

SUBJECT

"......Lawmakers are hearing new testimony on slave reparations...."

Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 10:26PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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It was an embarrassing display by the Democrats.

Wednesday, June 19th 2019 at 11:47PM
Steve Williams

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"...MY REPLY: Steve...What is embarrassing about discussing the wrongs that effects Black Americans throughout

the history of this country Steve?....."

Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 9:51AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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Is it embarrassing for deacon of What?.....euroPaganChristian thought!

….To discuss what is the value of GENERATIONAL slaver-rape/torture/murder by COLOREDwhiteUSAcitizens'

against AfricanAsian Slaves.....slaves made subhuman and treated subhuman in the "in the name of Jesus" 1776-1868

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The VAST majority of slaveWhipping, witchBurning Evangelical Christians LOATH those with reparation IDEAS

…….SEE on c - span Senator Mitch McConnell

I watched this fake news 'blackThought' and AM MORE against their nonsense

......JUST VOTE in 2020 for President, Senators, Representatives, Governors, Supervisors JUDGES and

the nonCOLORED'white' Majority can EARN and WORK to repay the Evil, in the name of latinoJesus HELL.

PS

Thanks for the READABLE transcripts and yes I always watch c-span

https://www.c-span.org/video/?461767-1/hou...

……..VOTE 2020 for The Honorable Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker------

NOT OLD senatorSegregationist joeyBiden



Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 7:41PM
robert powell
I hope that you enjoyed the read.

Thursday, June 20th 2019 at 11:31PM
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