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November 2019 forsooth: (adverb) in truth, in fact, indeed. Volume 30, No. 6 A publication of the Louisville Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation www.LouisvilleFOR.org NOVEMBER 2019 400 Years of Inequality (1619-2019) By Gracie Lewis put aboard the “White Lion,” an English off like cattle, kept in bondage, and forced to presented the 400th Year Commemoration ship, and then traded for food and other perform hard labor under the most wicked Ceremony, which included over 20 pastors August 2019 marked the 400th Com- provisions at Virginia’s Point Comfort. of institutions. This is an important lesson, from many different denominations, who memoration of Black Enslavement in because it forms the basis for reparations to acknowledged the impact of slavery and America. These enslaved Africans were reported redress the past wrongs of slavery. laws that enforced racial discrimination to have been forcibly taken from Angola. in the United States. Approximately 2,000 In August 1619, more than 20 Africans This essentially was the beginning of the The institution of slavery was constitu- people attended the event. The program landed at Point Comfort, the present- slave trade in English North America and tionally and statutorily sanctioned by the covered the journey of American Descen- day Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. inequality in America. No other group has Government of the United States from 1789 dants of Slaves and our hopes as a people, According to the early documents, they had been forced to endure what slaves did. through 1865. During this time, approxi- past and present, for racial equality and been acquired from a Portuguese slave ship, Beginning in 1619, Africans were auctioned mately 4,000,000 Africans and their descen- healing, each of which are consequential dants were enslaved in the United works in progress and important in moving States and colonies that became the forward beyond the 400 years. United States. At the Federal, State and local level, this country continued The program began with remarks from to perpetuate, condone, and profit Dr. Kevin W. Cosby, President of Simmons from practices that brutalized and College of Kentucky. Dr. Cosby talked disadvantaged the American Descen- about, “the 20 plus Angolans who spent dants of Slaves through slavery, six weeks at the bottom of slave ship to be sharecropping, convict leasing, Jim slaves of the Portuguese. The first woman Crow, redlining, unequal education who arrived here was given the name of and disproportionate treatment at the Angela. That’s where the name of the project hands of the criminal justice system. originated.” He went on to say, “The slaves The current “State of Black America” labored and built tremendous wealth for today is the direct result of the Trans- this country, and we have gathered on this atlantic Slave Trade. occasion to repair our history. We have gathered here to make the Angela Project On August 20, 2019 and beyond, whole.” thousands of people across the country commemorated this historic The Opening Prayer was given by the event with a host of ceremonies, Rev. Dr. Elijah Brown, the General Secretary 400th Year Commemoration Ceremony presented by Simmons College of Kentucky’s education programs, musical performances, of the Baptist World Alliance. He prayed “Angela Projects” at St Stephen Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky, August 20, 2019 and exhibits. In 2017, Simmons College of that, “We as white Americans confess that Photo by Allen Hill, Allen Hill Photography ([email protected]) Kentucky in conjunction with the National we misused and abused human beings for Baptist Convention of America Internation- centuries.” al, Inc., the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and the Cooperative Fellow- Then we heard Testimonies from our ship of Baptists presented “The Angela ancestors. They did a reading from the Project.” The Angela Project has been a accounts of testimonies from the archives three-year journey revisiting the painful of the Underground Railroad which high- PAID past and learning about efforts to win our lighted the injustice, cruelty, brutality and freedom and equality. Throughout this inhumanity of slavery. Some 20 pastors Louisville, KY U.S. Postage Permit No. 962 Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit journey, there has been a reflection on the from across the country spoke about the past for the “Liberation of the American inhumanity of slavery. Whites and Blacks Descendants of Slaves” which included 40 together acknowledged the wrongs that days of prayer. had been done in hopes of moving forward toward repentance and reparations. The On Tuesday August 20, 2019, Simmons services concluded with a luncheon and a College of Kentucky’s Angela Projects (see INEQUALITY, page 6) [email protected] Send us your email address to keep getting FORsooth! 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Help keep it alive by donating Calendar for Peacemakers ....................................................................... 8 See details on page 7>> 2 | NOVEMBER 2019 - FORsooth people and wound 27 others on a crowded street in Dayton, Ohio (Dayton Shooting” “Red Flag” Laws and Assault Weapons 9 Dead in 32 Seconds”, Time Alejandro de la Garza and Michael Zennie, https:// Bans Will Diminish Mass Shootings time.com › U.S. › Crime) By Jim Johnson to the survey did so without undergoing a the FBI documents that guns owned by Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco: Inside background check.” (Miller M, Hepburn the “good guys” rarely stop shooters from Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, explains The August 24th, 2019 edition of the L, Azrael D. Firearm acquisition without killing innocents. (“Breaking down the the turf wars conducted by drug cartels in Community Forum section of the Courier- background checks: results of a national NRA-backed theory that a good guy with Mexico are fueled by hand guns and assault Journal published an article penned by U.S. survey. Annals of Internal Medicine. a gun stops a bad guy with a gun” Meghan rifles purchased in Texas, Arizona, and New Representatives Thomas Massie and Jim 2017;166(4):233-239). Keneally Oct 29, 2018 ABC News) That Mexico. Mexico has strict gun safety laws. Jordan. Their article was entitled “Red flag fact coupled with the fact that 60% of all Turf wars occurring in cities like Juarez, laws, assault weapons ban won’t stop mass Purchasing weapons from gun shows deaths resulting from gun violence are Nuevo Laredo, and other Mexican cities, are shootings.” They are wrong. and other private gun sales does not require suicides begs the question: why would taking the lives of thousands of Mexicans. background checks. New safety measures expanding background checks for all gun Advocating for legal sales of assault First, they claim background checks requiring background checks for all gun sales sales rob law-abiding citizens of the right rifles and large capacity magazines begs on all gun sales are unnecessary because would require background checks whether to self-defense? Background checks for the question: why do American civilians attackers in recent mass shootings passed from private sales or from a license firearms all gun sales will greatly diminish the gun need assault rifles and weapons with large background
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