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chattel slavery indicated that African
people were things to be owned to be
bought and sold but wait a minute
my grandson Dave Porter said wait a
minute granddad
we need another story one of positivity
well there is another way to frame the
narrative 200,000 generations ago that’s
like 200,000 times 22 4.5 million years
ago humanity began in Africa 240
generations ago civilization began in
Africa from that context 12 generations
of Africans were enslaved in the United
States five generations of Africans in
America defeated segregation and Jim
Crow Jim Crow is like slang for aparte
apartheid that’s like government speak
for violent racism two generations after
the end of Jim Crow Barack and Michelle
Obama graced the White House in the u.s.
we are now 10 years from 2008 and 40
million plus futures visions and dreams
for Africans and Americans in the USA so
the positivity after a very long
heritage we were enslaved for a
and we out of that tenacious moment of
enslavement we triumphed in a second and
in a split second we are transforming a
system of domination to one of Universal
equality so this is the story of the
three T’s tenacity triumph and
transformation in the african-american
story
it is the framework for human liberation
500,000 African people came to America
in floating prisons they were packed 18
inches apart beneath the decks chained
with little food in water no toilets for
six months and even the daylight was
rationed they arrived to work schedules
that as they put it were from can’t see
to can’t see from the can’t see in the
morning with before the Sun came up to
can’t see at night after the Sun went
down they were never paid do the math on
that lets see wages labor without wages
over time equals the invention of the
Negro so the invention
de negro brings us to another story the
story of triumph tenacity begins with
the 500,000 Africans who came over on
those floating prisons now recognized to
be 40 million African people in the
United States 150 million in the Western
Hemisphere those numbers alone are
testimony to tenacity a quick story
about triumphs when my grandfather
Washington Porter was born in 1842 he
was a farm implement the 1850 US census
agricultural implement of Frank Porter
his father and owner his mother Dinah an
African woman slaved in Frank Porter’s
kitchen when Washington Porter was 15
years old the US Supreme Court declared
that Negroes in America had no rights
that a white man was bound to respect
of course Dinah had long discovered that
she had no race that Frank was bound to
respect that decision started a civil
war that war ended when 200,000 formerly
enslaved Africans men and women joined
the Union Army and Navy in defeating the
Confederacy thus ending the most
well-planned largest-scale well-funded
conspiracy ever to destroy the United
the destruction of chattel slavery a
triumph for Humanity the saving of the
Union United States a victory for
America short story about transformation
in 1955 Emmett Till was 14 years old
when his mother sent him to visit his
grandparents in money Mississippi the
teenager says something to Carolyn
Bryant a 20 year old white woman he said
something slick after all he was from
Chicago and maybe he whistled at her
maybe not it didn’t matter
or maybe it mattered in Mississippi
because that evening
Carolyn Bryan’s husband and her half
brother in-law visited in its
grandfather’s house and they took the
boy from the home they lynched him they
beat him they stabbed him they shot him
they ended by tying a 75-pound
industrial fan around his neck with
barbed wire and throwing his Defiant
team body into the Tallahatchie River
because he was defiant until the end his
body was found three days later his
mother Mamie till left his casket open
for the world to see Jet magazine an
African American Weekly of those days
published the image of Emmett Till’s
disfigured body it was an image that
started a revolution Rosa Parks saw it
and refused to take a back seat Martin
Luther King saw it and went all the way
to the mountaintop Malcolm X saw it
and sought freedom justice and equality
by any means necessary
the image of Emmett Till’s battered body
was probably the first instance of viral
media impact google it if not now later
even today when violence is daily
entertainment it has moral impact 10
years after imitates open casket Jim
Crow was legally dead new civil rights
laws were passed federal laws were
passed to promote anti-poverty
legislation to promote anti-racist
legislation black liberation movements
were afoot women’s liberation movements
began sexual liberation movements began
blackness moved from a negative to a
positive the Negro made in slavery was
uninvented the hard are on the n-word
became a soft a in 2018 when kendrick
lamar wins two Pulitzer Prize for an art
form that is crafted in the ghettos of
America that has become the song of the
world blackness for 21st century
african-americans is a starting point on
the route to positivity and not a
destination but negativity dies hard
bodies pile up they pile up in Ferguson
and Cleveland in Chicago in
Charlottesville and Parkland and they
though in 2017 82 year old Carolyn
Bryant says to the world that Emmett
Till that dear sweet boy she said had
done nothing to her
the facade crumbles the transformation
is ongoing being in the world creates
cultures cultures create worldviews
worldviews interact the worldview of
African American tenacity triumph and
transformation says that we are all
equal beings thus our true purpose in
the world is to become more human and
more humane that the true human
liberation is for humans to be to be
creative and fruitful in their
environment that race is a lie
small world alert we are 99.999% the
same this is the problem and the
struggle of the 21st century to become
more and better human beings this is the
truth revealed by the story of the
African in America the lessons of the
African in America are available to
students whose schools are shot up to
neighbors whose neighborhoods are shot
up to oppress nationalities to all
genders to all people who are seeking
freedom
justice and equality all have a right to
be all have a right to tenacity to be
triumphant to be transformative find
your personal tenacity triumph and
transformation what will you do with the
three T’s in your generation in a moment
this talk will be over make a commitment
to be personally tenacious make a
commitment to be victoriously triumphant
make a commitment to change make a
commitment to transform to one humanity
my nineteenth century grandfather very
human being struggle tenaciously having
been considered as property to be
considered a human at all my 20th
century life is a triumph of awakening
your 21st century life can be one of
transformation from a divisive
negativity to a unifying positivity the
African American story is the model
thank you you
chattel slavery indicated that African
people were things to be owned to be
bought and sold but wait a minute
my grandson Dave Porter said wait a
minute granddad
we need another story one of positivity
well there is another way to frame the
narrative 200,000 generations ago that’s
like 200,000 times 22 4.5 million years
ago humanity began in Africa 240
generations ago civilization began in
Africa from that context 12 generations
of Africans were enslaved in the United
States five generations of Africans in
America defeated segregation and Jim
Crow Jim Crow is like slang for aparte
apartheid that’s like government speak
for violent racism two generations after
the end of Jim Crow Barack and Michelle
Obama graced the White House in the u.s.
we are now 10 years from 2008 and 40
million plus futures visions and dreams
for Africans and Americans in the USA so
the positivity after a very long
heritage we were enslaved for a
and we out of that tenacious moment of
enslavement we triumphed in a second and
in a split second we are transforming a
system of domination to one of Universal
equality so this is the story of the
three T’s tenacity triumph and
transformation in the african-american
story
it is the framework for human liberation
500,000 African people came to America
in floating prisons they were packed 18
inches apart beneath the decks chained
with little food in water no toilets for
six months and even the daylight was
rationed they arrived to work schedules
that as they put it were from can’t see
to can’t see from the can’t see in the
morning with before the Sun came up to
can’t see at night after the Sun went
down they were never paid do the math on
that lets see wages labor without wages
over time equals the invention of the
Negro so the invention
de negro brings us to another story the
story of triumph tenacity begins with
the 500,000 Africans who came over on
those floating prisons now recognized to
be 40 million African people in the
United States 150 million in the Western
Hemisphere those numbers alone are
testimony to tenacity a quick story
about triumphs when my grandfather
Washington Porter was born in 1842 he
was a farm implement the 1850 US census
agricultural implement of Frank Porter
his father and owner his mother Dinah an
African woman slaved in Frank Porter’s
kitchen when Washington Porter was 15
years old the US Supreme Court declared
that Negroes in America had no rights
that a white man was bound to respect
of course Dinah had long discovered that
she had no race that Frank was bound to
respect that decision started a civil
war that war ended when 200,000 formerly
enslaved Africans men and women joined
the Union Army and Navy in defeating the
Confederacy thus ending the most
well-planned largest-scale well-funded
conspiracy ever to destroy the United
the destruction of chattel slavery a
triumph for Humanity the saving of the
Union United States a victory for
America short story about transformation
in 1955 Emmett Till was 14 years old
when his mother sent him to visit his
grandparents in money Mississippi the
teenager says something to Carolyn
Bryant a 20 year old white woman he said
something slick after all he was from
Chicago and maybe he whistled at her
maybe not it didn’t matter
or maybe it mattered in Mississippi
because that evening
Carolyn Bryan’s husband and her half
brother in-law visited in its
grandfather’s house and they took the
boy from the home they lynched him they
beat him they stabbed him they shot him
they ended by tying a 75-pound
industrial fan around his neck with
barbed wire and throwing his Defiant
team body into the Tallahatchie River
because he was defiant until the end his
body was found three days later his
mother Mamie till left his casket open
for the world to see Jet magazine an
African American Weekly of those days
published the image of Emmett Till’s
disfigured body it was an image that
started a revolution Rosa Parks saw it
and refused to take a back seat Martin
Luther King saw it and went all the way
to the mountaintop Malcolm X saw it
and sought freedom justice and equality
by any means necessary
the image of Emmett Till’s battered body
was probably the first instance of viral
media impact google it if not now later
even today when violence is daily
entertainment it has moral impact 10
years after imitates open casket Jim
Crow was legally dead new civil rights
laws were passed federal laws were
passed to promote anti-poverty
legislation to promote anti-racist
legislation black liberation movements
were afoot women’s liberation movements
began sexual liberation movements began
blackness moved from a negative to a
positive the Negro made in slavery was
uninvented the hard are on the n-word
became a soft a in 2018 when kendrick
lamar wins two Pulitzer Prize for an art
form that is crafted in the ghettos of
America that has become the song of the
world blackness for 21st century
african-americans is a starting point on
the route to positivity and not a
destination but negativity dies hard
bodies pile up they pile up in Ferguson
and Cleveland in Chicago in
Charlottesville and Parkland and they
though in 2017 82 year old Carolyn
Bryant says to the world that Emmett
Till that dear sweet boy she said had
done nothing to her
the facade crumbles the transformation
is ongoing being in the world creates
cultures cultures create worldviews
worldviews interact the worldview of
African American tenacity triumph and
transformation says that we are all
equal beings thus our true purpose in
the world is to become more human and
more humane that the true human
liberation is for humans to be to be
creative and fruitful in their
environment that race is a lie
small world alert we are 99.999% the
same this is the problem and the
struggle of the 21st century to become
more and better human beings this is the
truth revealed by the story of the
African in America the lessons of the
African in America are available to
students whose schools are shot up to
neighbors whose neighborhoods are shot
up to oppress nationalities to all
genders to all people who are seeking
freedom
justice and equality all have a right to
be all have a right to tenacity to be
triumphant to be transformative find
your personal tenacity triumph and
transformation what will you do with the
three T’s in your generation in a moment
this talk will be over make a commitment
to be personally tenacious make a
commitment to be victoriously triumphant
make a commitment to change make a
commitment to transform to one humanity
my nineteenth century grandfather very
human being struggle tenaciously having
been considered as property to be
considered a human at all my 20th
century life is a triumph of awakening
your 21st century life can be one of
transformation from a divisive
negativity to a unifying positivity the
African American story is the model
thank you you
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