Have African Americans yet reached the "Promised Land"?
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Thye all have reached the promised land, but many of their spirits are back in Egypt....as long as they dwell on victimhood, they will not get victory in their personal lives...the promised land is full of giants...there are battles to be fought, but the victory is yours if you put God first, and make your choices line with with what he would do.
900627
more poverty and fighting...prophecies arent yet fulfilled
335944
You're right.. It's very sad that he didn't step foot in the promised land, but something more disturbing is that EACH AND EVERY jew that was freed from enslavement in Egypt weren't allowed to reach it either.. They had to live their lives out in the desert.. \n\nIt was explained to me that a person that was enslaved all their lives and beaten down emotionally, psychologically and spiritually wouldn't be able to break the chains of their slave mentality.. Their doubts, fears and anger wouldn't allow them to have the yiddish neshama(jewish soul) required to create a homeland that Ha'Shem(G-d) set forth for His people.\n\nSad, but true..
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by Martin Luther King\n"Whenever this issue [compensatory treatment] is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more."\n\nthat is what he said the white man will say. \n\n "On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up." \n"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." \n"... for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages — potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. \n\nHe was a leader how did he fail his people. The real question is what is whites excuse not to be successful. When they had 400 years of benefiting for slavery. Somethings black never had, some still do get that benefit. Others wasn't even allowed to vote until 1965.
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read it\n\n"I Have A Dream" \nby Martin Luther King, Jr,\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nDelivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968 \n\nFive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. \n\nOne hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. \n\nSo we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. \n\nThis note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. \n\nSo we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. \n\nIt would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. \n\nThe whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. \n\nWe must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. \n\nThe marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust
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I think they kept going in circles.  \n\nAfter the 40th time they passed the same burnt shrub, someone probably elbowed Moses and asked if he could check out what was over that hill ahead on the left.  That's when they found the promised land.
951588
your funny-your trying to put guilt by your reverse question-and only 10% of americans here today have relatives back to slavery days -they came from europe and elsewhere since the early 1900's but many run with that chip on their shoulder both colors-let Jesus set you free -david in Jesus amazing grace that saved a wretch like me  :D
399549
black people from africa that are now U.S. citizens are african americans, there is no such thing as africa america
55518
Well, in the grand scheme of history, we've barely batted an eyelid since Dr. King's time.  However, pointing out one statistic to prove your point is statistically flawed and border-line misleading.  Many more blacks are addending university and obtaining graduate degrees, starting businesses, earning comparable wages (to whites), voting and otherwise become active citizens than they were in the 1960's.  Further still, this particular problem is the result of many black families not having a strong lineage of educated, successful family members to build supportive communities.  Had the black college attendence rate been in 1966 what it is in 2006, then we would be talking about a very different story.  Give it time.  Why are Americans so impatient ;)
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Promised Land.\n\n"Somebody help me get out of Louisiana\nJust to help me get to Houston Town\nThere are people there who care a little about me\nAnd they won't let the poor boy down"\n\n\n\nFollow the link for the lyrics...
477469
Not until black people are given their 40 acres and a mule. Seriously. We do way too much for foreigners in our country but won't take care of our own people. It's sickening..and I don't have any problem with their race, ethnicity. Just wanted to clarify that.
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Here is the widsom of Dr.King on Affimative Action\n\n"Whenever this issue compensatory treatment is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up." \n"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." \n"... for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages — potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro: it should benefit the disadvantaged of all races." \n\n\nHere what he said about America\n"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."
210097
Life is what you make it to be.  There are quite a few well to do Hispanics in my neighborhood who worked for what they wanted.  It may be a struggle but you will eventually get just strive hard for it.  And to the dumb A S S above me with the IGNORANT response.  Check your facts sweetheart....this land was STOLEN from mostly Hispanics and Native Americans and as a Black American I found your answer to be offensive.  Why don't you take your A S S back to where you came from before you stole this land and claimed it as your own!!!!!!!!!!!
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"""Calling themselves the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, their origins are rooted in their charismatic leader, Ben Ammi Ben Israel. Ben Ammi, who was a foundry worker named Ben Carter in Chicago, had a vision in 1966 that his African ancestors were descended from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel."""\n---\n"""The strange group is led by Ben Carter a former Chicago resident who now calls himself “Ben Ammi Ben Israel”\n\nCarter claims that the ”Archangel Gabriel told him that many African Americans were descendants of the lost Israeli tribe of Judah.” He led some followers to settle in Israel during 1969, but they didn’t receive permanent residence status until 2003.\n\nThe “Black Hebrews” have been linked to crime and the death of a child."""\n---\n"""One of Carter’s henchmen was found guilty of “operating an international crime ring” in 1986 and just last year a couple was charged with manslaughter. And the death of their baby was allegedly tied to the group’s strange diet."""
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http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html\n\nlsu list no pledges.
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There have been several African-American astronauts\n\nhttp://ask.yahoo.com/20020218.html
512256
Becuase America need to pay for their crime, because it's over doesn't mean their except from a crime. See it's pride of America everyone like to blame what America and their ancestors did on the "Africans". I guess the Africans killed 100 million blacks on their trip here. I guess the "Africans" shoot them, lynch, burn alive, rape, burn their homes, rob of their nationality, names, culture, customs, religion, and families. I guess the "Africans" call them Nigger, and put hoses on them, sent dogs after them. What about the Africans that put them in iron collars, worked from sun up to sun down, whip, beaten, then poured salt in their wounds, I guess it was the Africans. I could go on and on about what America and white America ancestors did. But they all have too much pride to admit it. They don't tell you that they get to benefit from 400 years of oppression to this day. America will bankrupt just repaying for the millions they kill. They will go bankrupt just for the million they mistreated. And if they have to repay for free labor bankrupt their too. If not the fact that America owe blacks anything it the fact America don't have a right to benefit from it. No one no matter what race should come here are be living off the expense of our ancestors that America still hates. The question is who will blacks back then want to benefit form their expense, everyone or just their descendants.