“First, it appears that the family which evolved within the isolated world of the Negro folk will become increasingly disorganized. Modern means of communication will break down the isolation of the world of black folk, and, as long as the bankrupt system of Southern agriculture exists, Negro families will continue to seek a living in the towns and cities of the country. They will crowd the slum areas of Southern cities or make their way to Northern cities where their family life will become disrupted and their poverty will force them to depend upon charity.”
This is a quote that reads almost like a prediction due to its accuracy from E. Franklin Frazier’s 1939 book “The Negro Family In the United States.” Frazier further stated that “mere equality of opportunity would not be sufficient, for in present terms Negroes were simply not competitive.” This statement was true in 1865 at the ending of the Civil War, and when you look at the multi-generational wealth inequity created from 1865 to 2015 in the native American Black aka Negro household, the lack of wealth has been near zero over a one hundred and fifty year time span due to the unwillingness of the United States Government to provide a true economic base by way of restitution to the American Negro generation after generation. The enslaved African went from a free labor unprotected position in society, to a paid worker with minimal protection under the law, with federal and local targeted laws to hinder the creation and maintaining of wealth or significant land ownership.
President Lincoln:
Proposed “compensated emancipation,” to Southern States to essentially buy out slave owners – there was no equalization to the enslaved for labor rendered. Congress did not vote on that legislation. The “fair indemnity” would have been valued at $500 Million Dollars to slave owners in 1865. That is a staggering amount of money for that time. During the 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln expressed his then view that he believed whites were superior to blacks.[93] Lincoln stated he was against miscegenation and allowing blacks to serve as jurors. (Wikipedia)
President Andrew Johnson:
The reconstruction president who pardoned all Southern Whites including Confederate leaders, left it up to White Southerners to rebuild government in their respective states without the participation of American Negro’s. Land was returned to pre-war owners for autonomy. He should be known as The Father of Jim Crow as his inaction set the Negro back from the very beginning of so called freedom.
President Woodrow Wilson:
The World War I President that won the election by courting black voters with vague promises to be “President of the whole nation” and to provide Negroes with “absolute fair dealing.” He specifically promised that he would at least match past Republican appointments of Negroes to patronage positions. The NAACP endorsed Wilson and Negro groups worked vigorously for his election. (Judson MacLaury) There were “separate but equal policies” within the military. In 1914 when questioned by William Monroe Trotter, Civil Rights Activist and founder of the Boston Guardian, Mr. Trotter was thrown out of the Oval Office. Wilson stated “bringing up politics and citing black voting power was a form of blackmail.” As historian Kendrick Clements wrote, “Wilson’s attitude was always that there were more important issues to be pursued than racial justice.” He sold the Negro out. When the NAACP asked for a Federal Law forbidding lynchings – Wilson gave a speech about racial harmony. No Federal Law to protect the Negro from being lynched by white mobs was ever created. Lynchings continued. Read more here “The Federal Government and Negro Workers Under President Woodrow Wilson.”
Unapologetically,
Friday Jones