African Americans: An Unwanted People in America.

Africans were brought to America for one purpose. Slave labor. The moment Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, we became an unwanted people in America. In fact Abraham Lincoln himself, wanted to send freed slaves back to Africa.

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Except for a few years, immediately after the Civil War ended, African Americans have been treated like second class citizens. 

Andrew Johnson became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He in fact was a Southerner born in North Carolina. It should not be a surprise that he capitulated  to the Southern demands and allowed for "Jim Crow", to be part Reconstruction of the South. From that time on, racist Whites made it very clear African Americans were going to have a hard time.

What followed was prison system where Blacks were sent to prison for many years for infractions of the law. In fact I heard my great grand parents, who were raised in the South, refer to the laws as "Nigger Laws".

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It was a legal way to put African Americans back into slave labor. Right now in 2014 there are more Black people in prison than were slaves in 1850.

Then came the 100 years of lynching, chronicled in the same name book by Ralph Ginzburg.

Followed by a 100 years of segregation laws, and threats to African Americans in 

White communities to leave before sun down.

In the late 19th Century the Back to Africa movement began, pushed by leaders like Marcus Garvey.

 Who in their right mind, would want to go to Africa, where colonization had left it one of the worse continents  in the world to this day. Riddled with disease and poverty. As bad as America is to Blacks it is better than many places in Africa. Be sure we are reminded of this fact in many ways.

Many will say all this happened in the past what has it got to do with today?

You'd have to be Black to understand that just because the optics have changed, the spirit behind unwarranted hate of Blacks never died.

It lives today in Ferguson, Mo, In New York City, Los Angels, Sanford, Florida, Detroit, were unarmed Black men and women are killed for minor infractions of the law or none at all. A man goes free for killing a unarmed teenager and a Black woman is sent to jail for firing a warning shot at her partner to avoid being assaulted.

A Black woman lies on a school application and given 5 years in prison. 

African Americans are dehumanized they same way, Japanese and Vietnamese were in the corresponding wars. Monkeys, Gooks, Niggers, "F**king Animals", as was over heard by a Ferguson police officer referring to Blacks protesting.

BLACKS ARE VIEWED AS TERRORIST BY MANY POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN AMERICA, AND SADLY BY TOO  MANY OF IT'S WHITE CITIZENS.

We are  sentenced to prison by the color of our skin not on the crime committed. Even worse cops act as Judge Dredd, Police, Judge, and Executioner.

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The most egregious demonstration of how unwanted African Americans are in America is the treatment of the First African American President. 

I have witnessed some horrible treatment of African Americans over the past 50 years. Just like alcoholism it gets worse, never better.

I have to admit I do not know what the solutions are. Back to Africa? Finding a uninhabited Island or piece of land?

You might say, "That is ridiculous and far fetched." My response is simple,

So is expecting fair treatment under the law?

For many it is a fatal fantasy.