The Blackman Who Reads Aloud
Presents: Robert Smalls
Speaking Black Truth To White Supremacy
Speech (1895)

A Word of Warning: A Former Slave Urges Constitutional Caution
"Since reconstruction times 53,000 negroes have been killed in the south, and not more than three white men have been convicted and hung for these crimes. I want you to be mindful of the fact that the good people of the north are watching this convention upon this subject. I hope you will make a Constitution that will stand the test. I hope that we may be able to say when our work is done that we have made as good a Constitution as the one we are doing away with."


"Smithsonian Magazine Article (2018)"
Fifty-three thousand dead is a staggering number—more than all the dead, wounded and missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Even spread over the 30 years that had elapsed since Appomattox, that would be an average of 1,766 murders each year, or almost five each day, across the 11 former Confederate states.

So when you are in a discussion about black reparations understand that black oppression didn't conclude at the end of the Civil War and the elimination of the institution of slavery. Black physical, education and economic oppression extended far into the twentieth century. I mean 53,000 murders by white supremists beware the ides of March, really, beware the ides of whiteness.

Reading from the book "REDEMPTION: THE LAST 31 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. APRIL 4, 1968, #theblackmanreadaloudhour

“No matter the outcome of the Poor People’s Campaign, King insisted, he would win a moral victory. As he told a union rally in New York City on March 10, 1968, “People ask me, ‘Suppose you go to Washington and you don’t get anything? You ask people and you mobilize and you organize, and you don’t get anything. You’ve been an absolute failure.’ My only answer is that when you stand up for justice, you can never fail.”

BLACK AMERICA HISTORY
Easter Sunday Sermon
QUESTIONS THAT EASTER ANSWERS
WORDS BY
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Voiced by the Black Blogger:
April 21, 1957
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ON THE 53RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE THAT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. I PLAN TO READ HIS EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE SERMON HE GAVE TO HIS PARISHIONERS AT THE DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH IN MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA. THE YEAR 1957 WAS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT WAS JUST MONTHS AFTER THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAD RULED IN FAVOR OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY WHO HAD BOYCOTTED THE TRANSIT SYSTEM OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA. JOIN MY FACEBOOK PAGE AS I READ THIS ENGAGING AND HISTORIC SERMON.