Let’s keep it real

Fourscore and several years ago our forefathers brought upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That may be true physically but in the real world this is a blatant lie. Our forefathers were mostly criminals that were expelled from England. Other countries abroad have still maintained their criminal behavior and arrogance.

For example, they brought thousands of innocent Africans over here on slave ships, denying them their human rights as individuals and brainwashing them into believing that they were inferior to the European Americans All kinds of atrocities were perpetuated on the innocent individuals, and they did not stop there. The Native Americans who really own this land were tricked and swindled out of a great portion of their land by force. Acting like they were friends of the Red man, they gave them cattle and blankets that were contaminated with smallpox and other diseases that the Indians had no defense against after the main source of their survival, the buffalo, was purposely killed off. The Indians were herded into reservations which is another word for concentration camps to make sure that they could control them whenever they wanted.

Now we are faced with another grim conspiracy that these demagogic businessmen are perpetuating against the unsuspecting Red and Black man. Homelessness. Homelessness is one of the biggest conspiracies perpetuated against the Red man and the Black man or should I say Native Americans and Afro Americans?

Right now in the year 2005 there are thousands of homeless that are suffering in our state.because of well-thought out genocide that is happening all over the country and in different parts of the world. Minnesota is one of the richest states in the whole United States with so many billion-dollar companies, for example, Honeywell, General Mills, Pillsbury, just to mention a few, yet we have one of the highest statistics of homelessness in the whole country. Why is this so? It’s greedy, power-hungry people, uncaring about anybody. Every year we have at least 100 or more homeless people die in Minnesota.

We elect people into office that not only do not have our best interests at heart, they are constantly cutting funds that are needed for our survival.

The United Citizens Commission put together a proposal that begged the Park Board Commission and the county commissioner to consider a fund because it would save a lot of lives in the cold months. This proposal was asking that out of the 170 parks that are in Minneapolis, let them use just two of the parks from October to May so that hopelessly despaired homeless people could have a roof over their heads and a place to wash up so that they could look for employment fresh and clean.

We owe these homeless people that much at least. You can’t try to better yourself while funky, dirty and unshaven. No one is going to hire anyone under those conditions. Homeless people are targets for the elements, the gangs and our bureaucratic system. Stay tuned for Part Two of this report on the homeless in the next issue.