| Tuesday, May 31,2006
The Hon. Paul Brathwaite, Ex/Dir US Congressional Black Caucus, US Congress, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. Re: The First Steps of A Plan / Let # 2 Mr. Brathwaite, I have had some meetings with certain individuals in Washington, DC concerning the super negative effects that the massive, rapid moving, illegal immigration invasion into and colonization of the United States of America is having on American Black citizens. The folks that I am working with are helping me to arrange some high level discussions with several different but related entities and individuals in the public and private sectors. White House Discussions One in particular, is with the President of the United States, the Hon. George W. Bush. Here is my thinking and strategy. I hope that you will join with us! While we do empathize with our poverty stricken Latino Indio brethren, it must be made very clear to the President that their flight from the oppressive cultures of corruption in the Mesoamerican countries to illegally enter the United States is literally killing poor American Black citizens! We are seeking to express to President Bush those powerfully devastating effects that illegal immigration is having upon American Black US citizens, which to date has not been considered in the debates. These discussions are purely insensitive to and over the “bodies” of our peoples and our heritages. Political parties in the Congressional illegal immigration “train-wreck” are looking to the President to forge a compromise; however, there is no way that he can do such a deal without first hearing from American Black citizens. These effects are especially significant in the light of the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement and Acts which seems to many in culminated in 1964-65. We experience this “unfinished business” in the forms of: · homelessness, where Black US citizens make up 60% of all homeless peoples in the USA (* in downtown LA alone, 80-85% of all the Homeless are Black men); · Black citizens disproportionately fill nations cemeteries, prisons (Prison Industrial Complex – slavery); · Black US citizens lead in nearly every negative social statistic in the nation; the disaster of Hurricane Katrina simply revealed the disaster that already existed in New Orleans, which is indicative in every major Black community in the country. This horrid condition of our poverty stricken peoples is a direct result of the failed policies and practices of the socialist welfare state pushed upon us as an answer to the demands of the Civil Rights movement. Ironically, Black folks who were not poor, but were able to take full advantage of the so-called gains of the movement have faired very well and entered into the ongoing “Black flight” and “Black brain drain” from the inner cities, thereby creating a vacuum drawing all kinds of terrifying destructions. In light of pre-occupation with the status of illegal aliens in the USA suffering from life threatening conditions in Mesoamerican home nations, the Congressional, Presidential, and Judicial aspects of our government has totally forgotten about the terror that is plaguing these abandoned American citizens. Also, even more significant than the unfinished business of the last generation Civil Rights movement of ’64-65-68 thru to 2004-2008 (40 years) is the unfulfilled Promissory Note that the US Government owes to American Black US citizens. The Soul Power of the Promissory Note If the Promissory Note had been “paying in full” over the past generations, the illegal immigration crisis would not be what it is today; and US citizens who are the descendents of West African Black American chattel slaves would not be in this life threatening situation that we are suddenly awakening to. This Promissory Note consists of the 13th, 14th, and 15th (including the 1st) Amendments of the US Constitution which also includes the Declaration of Independence as well and the 1866 Civil Rights Act. This Promissory Note is the very same one which was spoken of at the end of the last generation of our long Civil Rights movement by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963. · All underlines, bolds, italics brackets of Dr. Kings’ quatations are mine. “In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color (Black peoples) are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” MLK, Jr. My connections to the White House are requesting that I create a team that would consist of five civilians and at least two Congressional members, preferably American Blacks. We already have a short list of civilians in mind! Now I am inviting Diane Watson of California; Cynthia McKinney of Georgia; Harold Ford, and yourself to attend the summit. We will also approach the Hon. Senator Barack Obama, of Ohio and any other Black Congressional legislator. In order to clarify this strategy further, I request to visit with the Black Caucus as soon as possible. Can you, would you please arrange such a meeting. Thank you very much for your time, consideration and cooperation. Sincerely in defense of our peoples, Ted Hayes Ted Hayes Chair, CAB CC: The Hon. Diane Watson; Cynthia McKinney; Harold Ford; and my colleagues; etc; |
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