President Elect Donald Trump, What Direction Are You Taking Us?

On Thursday, Nov. 17th President elect Donald Trump visited Congress and met with the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. Speaker Paul Ryan said, “Donald Trump had one of the most impressive victories that they’ve ever seen and they’re going to turn that victory into progress for the American people, cause we’re now talking about how we’re going to hit the ground running to make sure that we can get this country turned around and make America great again!” My questions to that is “what direction is this country going to be turned back to and who will be the beneficiaries of it?”

Let’s take a stroll down the path of history as it pertained to African-Americans in America. “Saving The Nation” The Racial Data Revolution And The Negro Problem”  In 1884 Nathaniel Southgate, a Harvard scientist and a prolific writer on late-nineteenth-century race relations, wrote his first article on what he and many others called the “Negro Problem.” Like many contemporaries in the years following Reconstruction, Shaler believed that no other nation of the “civilized” world had a difficulty as great as America’s Negro Problem. All evils old and new-militarism, monarchism, and the racial threat to Anglo-Saxon purity posed by the new global mobility of the Irish, Italians, and other so-called inferior races of Europe in the industrial age-paled in comparison, he warned , to the problem of the presence of black people in America. “There can be no sort of doubt that,  judged by the light of all experience, these people are a danger to America greater and more insuperable than any of those that menace the  other great civilized states of the world.” Shaler believed that white men of the late nineteenth century- white men of science, white men of the industrial age, white men of the modern world- had inherited this predicament from their seventeenth and eighteenth-century fathers, who had been “too stupid to see or too careless to consider anything but “immediate gains” when they enslaved Africans in America. “It was their presence here that was the evil, and for this none of the men of our century are responsible,” he wrote, assuaging the guilt of his Atlantic Monthly readers, who would now have to continue the heavy lifting of rebuilding and reconciling a war-torn nation racked by uncertainty and anxiety about it’s future. Wow!

This is the mindset that we still see coming forth from very many in this country. They have no more need for us and we’re considered to be a threat to their society.  This country was built off of the backs of African-Americans and now once again they want us to be dismissed from the their very presence because truthfully they want the very mention of us deleted from their minds. Why? Because it must be very painful to realize the depth of inhumanity that was forthcoming from their ancestors towards another human being. Our forefathers didn’t ask to be brought here to this country, which truthfully was first occupied by the Indians. WOW! No wonder our history is not taught in the school systems throughout the land for they do not want the cruelty of their forefathers seriously revealed.

The question to “All” of this to President elect Donald Trump and Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is “what  direction do you want to take us back to? This is a question that needs to most definitely be given very “Serious” thought!

Last, but most definitely not least my friend Chuck Stewart Sr.’s “Going Home” ceremony was beautiful. His family showered him with much love and affection as they said their last good-byes! Sleep on Chuck, we loved you but GOD loved you best.

(The above information is from “The Condemnation of Blackness” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad)

This is “Lillie’s Point of View” and I’m just having my say!!!!