Black people have been seen as, and called many things:
ex-slaves, interlopers, vagrants; but I think what best describes us as a people
are P.O.W.’s – Prisoners of War.
To quote Winston Churchill who so poignantly stated “A
prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not
to kill him.” Is that not what America
tried to do blacks?
Blacks are P.O.W.’s learning to live in a foreign land and instead
of being recognized as honored Veteran’s, we are treated as savages. The way we see it is that we were
soldiers. Many who came to America were
in fact soldiers who were captured during times of war (in their own homeland)
and as a part of the punitive punishment, were enslaved.
When John McCain was imprisoned over in Honai, Vietnam – he was
heralded as a Prisoner of War, ran for Senate and for the highest office of
P.O.T.U.S, off of that accomplishment. Was it an accomplishment or did he just did
what he had to do to survive?
No different than any black person captured and brought over
to this country. So, why is it that we
as blacks are treated any differently?
When those so-called brute
savages in Vietnam had all the guns and he was trapped in a foreign land,
he had to do what he had to do in order to get-along. Same goes for us as blacks; Jim Crow Laws,
denying our right to vote and escaping slavery, in itself was our way of going-along-to-get-along;
it’s not that we weren't capable of doing for ourselves. We were living before we got here!
No race of people is better than the other, and for a group
of people to think that by the color of their skin, that it somehow makes them
superior to another race is absolutely ludicrous, preposterous and ridiculous.
We as blacks don’t want to return the unjust behavior that
was shown to us and nor do we want revenge, or justice for that matter – we want
equality, peace to walk the streets, and to be left alone; because we know that
we had a rough start out the gate in life and in this country but we persevered
and want to be treated as any Veteran returning home from War – Respect.
