Posted on 12/03/2016 10:11:20 AM PST by blackbetty59
Oakland – After earning both soaring praise and burning ire for sitting out the national anthem, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has turned his protest against police brutality into a positive force for change – by opening an education-based camp to empower kids.
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I suppose I should be a Lions fan. I guess this years is as good as any to start. :-)
Probably, though only those members of the black community moving to the new Nation of Islam.
I think Muhammed Farms is still there, run by the Nation of Islam Ministry of Agriculture. Their home page doesn't look to have been updated in over a decade, the price list since 2006, so maybe not. Best way to find out would be to check agricultural subsidies, they were still getting them in 2014. Need 41 million acres to feed your people, no one gives it to you so you buy 4,500. Cultivate 1,500, thirty years later still cultivating 1,500. Economic progress on a scale that wouldn't need 5 years to fail.
Black lives matters says it more succinctly. They leave the details out in the swamp.
The six platform demands are: 1. End the war on black people.2. Reparations for past and continuing harms.
3. Divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people.
4. Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.
5. Community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us.
6. Independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society.
Same program though. Nothing changes
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