Africa: Have African Americans Lived the American Dream? - AllAfrica.com

Dr. Kwame Osei

April 4 2008 will tag the 40th day of remembrance of the homicide of the Afrikan-American civil rights leader Dr. St Martin Martin Luther King jnr.

At this important milepost in the history of the United States and Afrikan-Americans in peculiar given the current climate, it is appropriate to inquire whether after 40 old age since the homicide of the civil rights leader the quality of life for Afrikan-Americans have improved or gotten worse.

Master Teacher Hamet Meter Maulana and I will be dissecting this issue this approaching Lord'S Day 6th April at the Dubois Centre, Cantonments from 4pm.

Let us then analyze this inquiry closely using a critical analysis that usage the past, present and future to get at a balanced conclusion.

Many Ghanaians are not aware of the fact that the original people of the Americas were Afrikan/Black people and NOT redness Indians/Native Americans. These Afrikans were responsible for edifice some of the great civilisations and civilization of the Americas including the Olmec, Mayan and Inca civilizations.

However, the overpowering bulk of the current coevals of Afrikan-Americans are the posterity of Ghanaians (Akan, Ga, Dagbani, Ewe) who were stolen and taken to the Americas in what is often referred to as the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Without going into the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, do to state that our ascendants were brutally tortured and stripped of their world during over 400 old age of free labor that built United States to the great powerfulness we see today.

However it was not until after the end of the American warfare of independency in which many of our ascendants fought and died for that the emancipation for Afrikan-Americans was delivered.

The likes of Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Harriet Tubman all contributed greatly to the abolishment of the transatlantic slave Trade by the United States in 1865 by President Abraham Abraham Lincoln who it is said had Afrikan blood in him.

Under enslavement, it was made illegal for Afrikan-Americans to read or write. However, despite this many great Afrikan-Americans such as as Granville Deoxythymidine Monophosphate Woods, Elijah McCoy, Saint George George American Capital Carver Washington, Loft Morgan, Joe Louis Latimer and Benzoin Banneker rose above this illegal nonsensicality and became innovators in scientific discipline and technology.

Between 1865 and 1964 Afrikan-Americans lived under terrible apartheid like statuses often referred to as Jim Crow laws where Afrikan-Americans were treated and viewed worse than animals.

The whole American society was separated on the footing of tegument colour with separate schools, restaurants, hospitals, churches, play-grounds etc for Whites and Blacks alike. Even graveyards were separated where Afrikan-Americans were not allowed to be buried in the same graveyard as White Person Person Person Person people.

Also during this time time period many Afrikan-American work force were chased by packs of White work force simply because they were Black and when they were caught they were tied to a tree with a snare on their cervixes and killed.

This became known as lynching and between 1865 and 1964 one thousands of Afrikan-American men were brutally lynched.

However, despite this cruel period, Afrikan-Americans were determined to better their quality of life and they cultivated a clime where there were able to develop sustainable communities and had their ain churches, schools, universities and businesses.

It was as a direct consequence of some of the terrible misdemeanors of human rights that Afrikan-Americans suffered under these Jim Crow laws that Afrikan-Americans like Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, St St St Martin Martin Martin Martin Luther King Junior and Benn Ammi amongst others began to stand up up to this inhumane treatment by empowering Afrikan-Americans with the belief that they were capable of doing for self.

Martin Luther King Junior was one of those who took up the mantle and became a advocate for alteration in American society.

Following the refusal of Genus Rosa Rosa Parks to give up her autobus place for a White man, Dr. King led a series of autobus boycotts that resulted in Afrikan-Americans being able to utilize the same buses as White people.

King also led a series of protestations and peaceful non-violent demonstrations across United States particularly in the Deep South to convey place to the bulk of Americans the dismaying unfairnesses that Afrikan-Americans were being subjected to.

Perhaps Martin Luther King Jnr's top deed was to animate more than than 250,000 Americans of all creeds, colours and spiritual beliefs to piece at the American Capital memorial where he delivered his celebrated 'I have got a dream' address in 1963 in which he outlined his vision for an United States based on equality, justness and racial tolerance.

It is the dogmas of this address with which to justice the present quality of life for Afrikan-Americans.

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