April 12 in 2020 is Resurrection Sunday but in previous years April 12 was the day that we lost three of the most dynamic entertainers in America’s history. Yes, that's right 3 incredibly unforgettable talents all past on April 12. I want to salute these superstars today. You see each one was unique in there own big way. Two of these found stardom in a boxing ring and the third was one of the most beautiful women that nature ever produced.

Josephine Baker, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Louis each provided our ancestors so many thrills and chills. Josephine Baker had talent and beauty beyond measure. But Ms. Baker also had race pride that didn't gel with the Jim Crow tactics in venues she was asked to perform in. I mean Josephine Baker refused to bow down to this nation's bigotry and hatred. Rather than accept the dirty money of segregation Ms. Baker left monies on the table and moved away from America. She left her homeland and instead became a national war hero in her newly adopted country, France. Josephine Baker was the only woman who spoke to the assembled crowd on August 28, 1963. You know Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic I have a dream speech day. What is a marvelous human being who adopted children of multiple races in order to provide them love and affection?

Sugar Ray Robinson brought flair, finesse, power, speed, and incredible endurance to the boxing ring. That flair also was with the Sugarman when he was out and about. I mean pound for pound there is no doubt that Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer of his or anyone else's generation. His ring victories gave our black communities across the nation so much pride. I mean in a time when Jim Crow was the major opponent for black Americans it was a relief that almost every month for a period of years they could depend on Sugar Ray Robinson to lay a whipping on some boxer be he white or black.

Finally, Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber who is said to be the top heavyweight boxer of all time. Well, the entire nation rode the back of Joe Louis when the Nazis were acclimating power in the 1930s’. It was Joe Louis who silenced any notion of white Nazi supremacy when he demolished Max Schmeling in Yankee Stadium. It was Joe Louis whose boxing victories we're reason enough for huge celebrations in black communities across this nation. It was Joe Louis who never turned his back on this country even though this country never truly loved Joe Louis for his commitment to democracy and fair racial play. Wow, April 12th a day that took these three great individuals from us. Let us rejoice in the memories of Baker, Louis, and Robinson today. As the history of this nation shouldn't be blind to the contributions of blackness.

The Europeans snatched us from our homeland put us in chains and sent us to a faraway land. Then those same Europeans basically forced up to build this land while we are in chains and they are raining down pain on us and economic gain for them. Then those Europeans not satisfied paying the King’s bounty took control of this stolen land kept the black chains and stole any hope of black rights gains. Freedom secured and slavery endured, guaranteed booty restored, a constitution established with fractions not any humane distractions. Finally a civil strife that cut this nation in two like a sharpened knife. They introduced 3 amendments to secure some equal rights but the paper that they were written on blighted at night when night riders provided terror at first sight. The Crow’s Jim and Jane crashed our dreams and stole each and every supposed right. Even had some black folks saying don't put up a damn fight.Wilmington,Rosewood, Greenwood, and even Washington DC saw rights torched as our black bodies were switched. Birth of a Nation renewed the Rebirth of the Klan, all we could say then was goddamn that fucking white man. Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito made a mad trio but white southerners were surely not black American heroes. We fought for the survival of democracy over there but over here was where walking while black caused inner fear. The GI Bill lifted white soldiers up the ladder of success while black American soldiers were saddled with economic distress. So please don't complain, Mr. Blackman, because this nation cannot handle any civic unrest. Emmitt floating in the Tallahatchie, Rosa saying no more, and Martin telling all of black Montgomery it's time to settle the score. Birmingham was bombing, Malcolm was saying it's no longer time for any tomming. Sitting at a lunch counter was a right of black passage but Ella cried out it's more than any burger. Stokely shouted out black power and white folks came down from those ivory towers. LBJ sic’ed the FBI on King damn if they didn't synchronized his phone ring. Huey called for armed resistance. Put Huey in jail and refused any calls that came long distance. Nixon says I got a plan to flood the cities with drugs and pull out the legal rug fill the jails up and label them black thugs. Reagan took the same plan to buy his weapons for international destruction and Clinton with his sax in hand joined the Nixon and Reagan band. We’re not winning a number of us spend our Sunday's in church so we are certainly not sinning. So why is it always the white man who ends up grinning? Now this microscopic killer has a plan to fill the black bodies in untold graves.All we need to do they avoid this damn mess and all this untold stress is to stay in your homes. You know just don't roam. But it's hot inside and the electric company says no more free rides. So where in the hell is a black person supposed to hide? It seems that they have been after us for quite some time, 400 years plus it my damn mind. So don't let this virus limit your lifespan’s time because if you do that will truly be crime, dying without getting one damn dime.