CHARLESTON,
WV – At the South Charleston Women’s Club on Saturday, November 21, 2009, at
6:00 p.m. located at 214 D Street, the HEAL America Campaign’s Health Care
“Clinic” for the Soul of America will
challenge Americans with prescriptions that will stop the bleeding and
cleanse, stitch, medicate, bandage and apply therapy to the inherited
slave-race wound.
The general
public is invited and encouraged to attend.
After the election of
the
first African American, “Black”
US President,
supposed “son of slaves,” Barack Hussein Obama,
tensions between White and Black have intensified and become more polarizing
than ever before, despite the hope of a post-racial country.
In the last
46 years, unpleasant racial incidents have exposed the unhealed wound as
indicated by the debates stemming from supposedly White on Black cases
including certain feature films or documentaries like Roots and/or
The Color Purple. The greatest of
these incidents is that of an African American
as President of the
United States
for at least the next 3 years. No doubt this development will give rise to
even more intense debate.
Unfortunately, the subsequent slave-race discussion between the two peoples
has generally been a “One-Way” lecture by certain Blacks to Whites indicting
them as racist, while the former is depicted as innocent victims of the
same.
Well known
homeless and American Civil Rights activist of Los Angeles, Ted Hayes, the
founder of the HEAL American campaign, says: “In general, American Whites
have progressed farthest in racial issues only to fall prey to the
nation-destroying policies of political correctness.
Despite certain superficial appearances, it is evident that the slave wound
of America’s national Soul remains dangerously un-healed.”
The
Campaign is implementing the prescribed admonition of Obama’s US
Attorney General, Mr. Eric Holder, also the
first “son of the slaves” to hold that position, who challenged Americans as
cowards saying,
“Though
this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in
things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways,
essentially a nation of cowards. Though race-related issues continue
to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though
there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we,
average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”
More poignant to the race issue was the truthful admission by
Republican National Committee Chair, the
Honorable Michael Steele, the first ‘son of
the slaves’ to hold that position in the Party’s 155- year existence
(1854), when he announced that White Republicans are ‘scared of Black
folks.’ TV One’s Roland Martin said ‘White
Republicans have been scared of Black folks.” Steele replied in an
interview, ‘You’re absolutely right…I’ve been in the room, and they’re
scared of me.’ Steele said.
One of the
primary prescriptions of the HEAL America Campaign is to stimulate a
‘Two-Way’ discussion that is based on honesty and trust.
“Until now,
the race conversation in America has been dominated by money- power driven
African-Americans who simply castigate Whites as the absolute racist slave
catchers, while ignoring the role of Blacks in the trade as well as their
own antics of anti-White racism.”
Hayes
insists that the Campaign is not seeking the exoneration of the proverbial
“White man” of his role in the practice of chattel slavery and
post-Civil-War-Jim-Crow laws of racial segregation,
but is rather eliminating political correctness from the discussion
which has unjustly absolved or exempted the Black man of his own
responsibilities.
“If
anyone, especially African Americans, refuses to participate in the
‘Clinics”, Hayes contends, “then it is evident and that slave wound is not
yet healed, but rather they are resisting the President’s policies thereby
making them either White racist or Black “Uncle Tom sell-outs”.
Popular
WCSH 58 radio talk show host, Mike Agnello,
who is giving the key-note message at the Saturday evening’s “Clinic” is
extremely hopeful that the African-American leadership in Charleston will
courageously join him, along with Ted Hayes and many others in the Campaign.
Mr. Agnello, as all
others, echoes the Attorney General's sentiments, that is, "a question of
being hones," adding that, "we have to have the guts" to talk about race
issues instead of avoiding them. "It is an easy thing not to talk
about these. It is a painful thing to discuss them.",
as all others, echoes the Attorney General’s saying that it is "a question
of being honest," adding that "we have to have the guts" to talk about race
issues instead of avoiding them. "It is an easy thing not to talk about
these things. It is a painful thing to discuss them
It is the
Campaign’s intent to help initiate the honest “Two-Way” discussions on race
relations, even as admonished by Mr. Eric Holder.
Attorney
General,
Holder also says "It is an issue we have never been at ease
with and given our nation's history this is in some ways understandable. And
yet, if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough
with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank
conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”
It is the
Campaign’s intent to help initiate the honest “Two-Way” discussions on race
relations, even as admonished by Mr. Eric Holder.
Attorney
General,
Holder also says "It is an issue we have never been at ease
with and given our nation's history this is in some ways understandable. And
yet, if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough
with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank
conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”
The HEAL
America Campaign contends that as painful as the exercise may be, White and
Black US citizens must have this inoculating discussion immediately if the
nation is to survive ‘old world’ European doctrines of governmental tyranny
which were rejected by our Founding Fathers
Attorney
General,
Holder also says "It is
Hayes says, “Mr. Holder, the ‘cowards’ you refer to are talking. Are you
listening?”
