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From:
World Pan African Movement <obw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06
September 2001 17:16
Subject: Fw: I'm sorry DOCUMENT
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I'M
SORRY
I
confess on behalf
of Africa, to our relatives scattered all over the
world,
that no one ever
asked our permission before snatching from us at gun
point,
our grandparents,
parents, sons, daughters,
mothers, sisters,
brothers, fathers, cousins, nephews,
nieces,
chaining and
dragging them like common criminals into dingy hell holes of boats that sailed
far out into the forbidden high seas
without giving us a
chance to say bye-bye.
No
one has so far been able to explain to us back home in
Africa,
what sins our
family members committed that warranted their being sold like cattle from
plantation to plantation,
raped, flogged
mercilessly, roasted in slow fires,
castrated and
worked like beasts of burden
without pay or
compensation of any sort.
Africa wants to
know
what manner of men dragged her
children out here,
what animals,
in the name of what religions, that
they had to lose their
names, customs, religions,
traditions, languages, self-esteem
and even
the basic right of knowing their African addresses,
so that
they can return home to us some day?
Is it true that
slavery is over if our brothers and sisters are still treated
as second class citizens wherever
they are because of the colour of their skin?
If they are still the last to be
hired and the first to be fired?
If more of them are in prison than
any other racial groups
relative to national group
populations?
If they are denied adequate shelter,
security, schooling, political and civil rights
even as late in the day as right
now?
What about
reparations?
The acre and the mule
issue?
Is it a joke?
A myth?
Are our kith and kin ever going to
be compensated for building their new societies, hostile to their
existence,
with their sweat and
blood?
WHEN?
By
Naiwu Osahon
Ameer spiritual of the black race,
Hon. Khu Mkuu,
World Pan-African Movement
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