Censorship During The COVID Era
Censorship During the COVID Era
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“At
least 83 governments worldwide have used the Covid-19 pandemic to justify
violating the exercise of free speech and peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch
said today. Authorities have attacked, detained, prosecuted, and in some cases
killed critics, broken up peaceful protests, closed media outlets, and enacted
vague laws criminalizing speech that they claim threatens public health. The
victims include journalists, activists, healthcare workers, political
opposition groups, and others who have criticized government responses to the
coronavirus.” COVID-19 Triggers Wave of Free Speech Abuse https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/11/covid-19-triggers-wave-free-speech-abuse#
Even before the World Health
Organization declared SARS-COV-2 a global emergency on January 30, 2020, the
global oligarchy planned and put into motion a campaign to suppress any
discussion, dissent or debate that ran contrary to their pre-arranged COVID-19 narrative
and coming vaccine frenzy. We can see it in the recommendations of the 2019 Event 201 Recommendations, specifically
recommendation number seven which says, “Governments
and the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods
to combat mis- and disinformation prior to the next pandemic response. Governments
will need to partner with traditional and social media companies to research
and develop nimble approaches to countering misinformation. This will
require developing the ability to flood media with fast, accurate, and
consistent information. Public health authorities should work with private
employers and trusted community leaders such as faith leaders, to promulgate
factual information to employees and citizens. Trusted, influential
private-sector employers should create the capacity to readily and reliably
augment public messaging, manage rumors and misinformation, and amplify
credible information to support emergency public communications. National
public health agencies should work in close collaboration with WHO to create
the capability to rapidly develop and release consistent health messages. For
their part, media companies should commit to ensuring that authoritative
messages are prioritized and that false messages are suppressed including
though the use of technology.” https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/recommendations.html (The underline emphasis is mine.)
This was written in October of
2019, lo and behold a few months later along comes COVID-19 and we are seeing their exact scenario played out with
information suppression, deplatforming, and outright censorship. I have
experienced it myself. One of my YouTube videos was taken down because it went
against the WHO narrative. I appealed using verifiable public domain
information but they still took it down and threatened to ban my videos if I
continued to post contrary opinions, information and policy dissent.
Look at the wording of the Event
201 recommendation number 7; they are calling for massive propaganda to “flood
media with fast accurate consistent information.” The last sentence reveals
exactly what their true intent actually is; to use technology to suppress
counter information and control the narrative!
This encourages fake news. We can
see this for ourselves because Anthony Fauci, the WHO and the CDC’s message are
anything but consistent! They are a hodge-podge of mixed messages on everything
from masks, mortality numbers and the effectiveness of the inoculations yet the
controlled media serves as Fauci and company’s guard dogs and gatekeepers. Most
people don’t know Bill Gates one of the co-sponsors of Event 201, pays several
“fact check” Websites to shill and cover for him and his initiatives. https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
The Nazis burned books and had a
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda to brainwash and program the
German people but this modern cabal of billionaires embraces technology to
brainwash the masses on a global scale. The digital tech giants YouTube,
Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al all censor and filter content which just
coincidentally always serves the interests of their fellow cabal members and
their minions! This is really alarming if you are a proponent of freedom of
speech! https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/why-big-tech-censorship-is-super-scary
Now the government is getting
involved and is pushing Big Tech to scrutinize and censor any content on their
platforms that goes against the accepted COVID vaccine narrative that the
vaccines are “safe and effective”. Several
“Blue State” attorney generals sent letters to
Big Tech CEO’s urging them to suppress and delete anything in opposition to the
COVID vaccine “safe and effective” party line. You can read the letter and see
who signed it here: https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/ag_letter_to_tech_ceos.pdf
Imagine attorney generals who are
tasked with upholding and enforcing their state and US Constitutions calling
for open censorship and suppression!? We are going far beyond anything Hitler
and Stalin ever did or the blatant state sanctioned intimidation of thugs, nightriders,
KKK, the various anti-subversive legislation in the US, COINTELPRO and
Operation Chaos of the FBI and CIA respectively. We have crossed the thresshold into the real
time, real life actualization of former CIA Director William Casey’s statement,
“We’ll
know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public
believes is false.” Welcome to the Brave New World Order.
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Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual Warfare
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul” Yeshua Ben Joseph
We find
ourselves engaged in an epic spiritual battle whose outcome will determine the
fate of this planet and humanity. By spiritual battle I do not mean a religious
crusade, a doctrinal or dogmatic confrontation or a sectarian battle. By spiritual
warfare I am talking about enlightenment versus benightedness, profundity
against profanity, righteousness opposing depravity and life itself against
anti-life. This spiritual conflict involves the quintessential reality of life,
that we are energetic beings infused with a DIVINE ENERGY and INTELLIGENCE that
animates all of creation that energy/intelligence is benevolent, nurturing and
expansive.
The antagonist is a consciousness
that sees itself in opposition to this energy/intelligence, that thinks it can
usurp this energy/intelligence’s authority and alter the very nature of
humanity and the earth and alter it into its own perverse image. This war is
going on now as we speak and there can be no neutrality, you are a warrior, a
usurper or you are collateral damage!
Some might
ask why do we have to fight, how do we fight a spiritual war and isn’t the
essence of spirituality peace and harmony? To answer these questions we have to
fight for survival because the fate the usurpers have in store for us is worse
than death! How do we fight, we fight by transforming ourselves using spiritual
alchemy to raise our consciousness, our energy and personal vibrations from the
base selfish, animalistic, fear based living to a higher level of thinking,
living and being; a level of selflessness, empathy and confidence far beyond
the myopic materialistic mindset propagated by the usurpers and their minions.
We must realize raising our consciousness will bring more peace and tranquility
into our lives but our lives will not be without struggle, tension or
challenges. These are all part of life and the law of consequence.
We will
have to work assiduously to make our new elevated/elevating consciousness our
new pattern and develop ways to employ our empathy and confidence even when it
appears difficult to do so. We must realize one of the laws of the UNIVERSE is
the law of consequence; every action has a cause and a consequence and the
resulting consequence can be opposition or tension that we must subsequently initiate
another action to dissipate using spiritual alchemy.
On the societal
level we must acknowledge there are truly evil, wicked and psychopathic people
in the world who wish us ill. Human history is full of examples of those who
connived to lord it over others, who dedicated their lives to manipulating and exploiting,
harming, maiming and murdering people due to their lack of empathy and their
lust for power and control.
As spiritual warriors these people
are our adversaries. We must see them for who and what they are: people who
have forfeited their souls, people who are oblivious to their spiritual essence
who have placed a higher priority on attaining “power”, wealth and position, or
they are literally possessed by demonic spirits, captive to a consciousness of
depravity who love to do evil.
Modern
society eschews any discussion of spirituality except in an extremely limited
and misguided way. In order for the usurpers to control us they must keep us
ignorant of our true nature, of our power and potential. Now they have moved
beyond mere manipulation and ignorance, now they want to transform us and the
world! They have and are developing the technology to accomplish this. This is
what the trans-humanist movement is all about. This is what the so called
Fourth Industrial Revolution is about. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/
It is no secret. They are openly telling
us what their intentions are, “Microchipping, human/computer hybrids,
artificial intelligence, and genetic alteration of human DNA using CRSPR and
other approaches are all aspects of the Transhuman agenda being advanced by
Silicon Valley luminaries such as Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil, one of Google’s
more prominent thought leaders…The leaching of Transhumanist technologies into
everyday life is what James O’Dea, former president of the Institute of Noetic
Sciences, has called the “mechanization of culture”. For all the seductive
benefits that hypertechnology offers, it seems fair to wonder if these strange,
unsettling, and in many cases unwanted intrusions into our everyday lives will
in the long run ultimately enslave us under the guise of liberating us.” A Peek
Inside The Transhumanist Agenda by Tom Valovic https://sociable.co/technology/transhumanist-agenda/
These
people want to play god, they want to negate our very spiritual essence by bypassing
our souls and minds and hooking us to a massive computer that they program and
control. https://www.zdnet.com/article/elon-musks-neuralink-explained-get-ready-to-merge-your-mind-with-a-computer/
What?! That’s crazy, what could possibly go wrong; plenty given the history and
nature of a debased and desecrated humanity led by psychopaths. This is why we
are in an epic struggle and your choices are limited; there is no neutrality
you are a righteous spiritual warrior, a usurper/evil doer or collateral
damage.
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Your Papers Please
Your Papers Please
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“The
Linux Foundation has partnered with IBM, the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative
and CommonPass, a digital ‘health passport,’ in order to develop vaccine
credential apps that will be applicable globally. If the initiative is
successful, you’ll likely be required to pull up a vaccine certificate on your
phone showing when and where you were vaccinated, along with which type of
vaccine, in order to get on a plane or attend an indoor event, such as a
concert, for starters.” Think Global Vaccine Passports Are Scary? Wait
Until You See What’s Next Dr. Joseph Mercola https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/global-vaccine-passports-scary-whats-next-2/
The “novel” Coronavirus named
SAR-COV-2 and the efforts of governments, public health officials, Big Pharma
promoted by the mass media ostensibly to mitigate its spread have wrecked havoc
on the world. For over a year we have been inundated with conflicting stories
about a virus that has been made to seem like it is the Bubonic Plague or Spanish
Flu when all the available data on it shows nothing is further from the truth. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Algorithm predictions paid for by
Bill Gates said five hundred thousand would die in the UK and two million in the US. The UN’s
World Health Organization, the Johns
Hopkins University
Center for Health
Security and almost two hundred world government leaders uncritically accepted
these Gates’ funded predictions without question!
It turned out to be a false alarm yet the media kept up a fear mongering campaign
that has created enormous psychological distress, mass hysteria and maladaptive
responses and reactions that are clearly proving to be worse than the virus! “If, and to what extent, the world has been
suffering from mass hysteria or mass psychogenic illness during the COVID-19
crisis is open to future research, even though some observers have made that
claim. It is clear, in any case, that the population has been under tremendous
psychological strain during the COVID-19 crisis. Especially lockdowns have
contributed to a surge in anxiety and stress, which are important ingredients
for the development of mass hysteria. In a survey conducted in the US
from 24 to 30 June, 40.9% of participants reported at least one adverse mental
health condition, and 10.7% reported to have considered suicide seriously in
the last 30 days. Additionally, the frequency of alcohol consumption during
lockdowns increased 14% in the US.
At least some anecdotal evidence points to the possibility of mass hysteria as
manifested by the hoarding of toilet paper and other essentials, the masked
driving of single persons in their cars, and people virtually not leaving their
houses, not even for a walk, even though the risk of being infected outdoors
with physical distancing is minuscule. Similarly, some people have been scared
by SARS-CoV-2 to an extent not easily explainable by their own miniscule risk
of death from it.” COVID -19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria Phillip
Bagus, José Antonio Peña-Ramos and Antonio Sánchez-Bayón International Journal
of Environmental Research and Public Health
To make matters worse, the pharmaceutical
industry rushed to develop and market experimental “vaccines” in record time,
skipping extensive animal and human trials, gaining government emergency use
authorization under cover of indemnity against lawsuits; meaning you cannot sue
them if you or a loved one suffers major injury or death! These experimental
injections are being paid for by our taxes! To add insult to injury you are not
allowed to even question their safety or offer any alternative therapeutic
treatment options other than experimental injections! These “vaccines” have
been deemed “safe and effective” not by science but by government, Big Pharma
and media fiat.
Now governments, self-appointed unelected
technocrats and non-scientist bureaucrats are plotting and working to mandate
“vaccine passports” designed to limit where and how we travel, trace and track everywhere
we go under the guise of “public health security”. It’s just like after 9-11
when the US government passed and enacted legislation that had been written well
before 9-11 the USA PATRIOT ACT and the NDAA (https://www.globalissues.org/article/342/the-usa-patriot-act-was-planned-before-911)
that have transformed society into a not so benign police state ostensibly to
“protect” us from terrorists and Jihadist bogymen (many who were on the US CIA
payroll). These laws chipped away at people’s civil rights and protection under
the law. Speaking of terrorists and loss of liberties, how come the US government
is now conflating dissent or disagreement with “domestic terrorism”? We are now
all viewed a potential carriers and spreaders when such a notion is so
unscientific it’s laughable.
Now global governments, technocrats
and the media are colluding to use biometric and face recognition technology to
track us, trace our every movement and determine where we go and what venues we
can lawfully enter. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/global-vaccine-passports-scary-whats-next-2/
This is like Nazi Germany, but
their real goal here is to be like China
and implement a version of communist China’s facial recognition and
multi-faceted digitalization technology to keep track of our every move and
transaction. https://medium.com/zipar/whats-wrong-with-china-s-social-credit-system-b9e1a2ffe71c
Why, when has this ever been done
as a treatment therapy for a pandemic? What has injection passports and
tracking got to do with preventive measures for a virus that has a 98% survival
rate?! This is serious food for thought.
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A Year Later
A Year Later
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
It’s been
over a year since the World Health Organization declared a global health
emergency on January 30 2020 despite the fact that except for Italy most of what was called COVID-19 was
relegated to isolated parts of China
mainly in Wuhan.
During that time we have seen over one hundred nations take unprecedented
measures ostensibly to “mitigate” the spread of the virus. These nation’s
leaders shut down their whole country except for “essential workers” which
turned out to be people like sanitation workers, first responders, and healthcare
professionals as opposed to many bureaucrats and white collar workers many who
had experience working from home.
What have
we learned from this experience? What lessons and take-aways can we glean from
all this? First we know that the actions of local, state nation and national
governments, the corporate and digital media and pharmaceutical cartels were
based on faulty mathematic and algorithmic models. People like Neil Ferguson of
the London Imperial
College predicted 500,000 people in
the UK would die and over 2
million in the US
would succumb to the virus. It is globally acknowledged that Ferguson’s predictions were wildly
inaccurate. His “predictions” were used to bring life as we knew it to a
stand-still with devastating consequences that were far worse than COVID.
The social and economic disruptions
of the lockdowns and social isolation have been horrific. Economic privation
has worsened due to the shut downs of economies, loss of income and jobs, depression
and suicide have spiked and media induced hysteria have been rampant.
A study of COVID policies in South
African revealed the adverse impact of the COVID lockdowns were extremely
destructive in terms of personal happiness and sense of wellbeing for society
in general. Researchers there discovered the negative impact of lockdowns in
these specific areas: social capital: unhappier people display less altruistic
behavior in the long run (Dunn et al.). They are also less active, less
creative, poor problem solvers, less social, and display more anti-social
behavior (Lyubomirsky et al.). If unhappier people display more anti-social
behavior, South Africa
could see an increase in behavior such as unrests, violent strikes and perhaps
higher crime rates.
Health care: unhappier people are less physically healthy
and die sooner (Lyubomirsky et al.). Additionally, unhappy people engage in
riskier behavior such as smoking and drinking, thereby placing unnecessary
pressure on national health systems.” The good, bad and the ugly of lockdowns
during OCIVD-19 Talita Greyling, Stephanie Rossouw and Tamanna Adhikar
South Africa is
not alone. In the US
the lockdowns resulted in: massive spikes in suicide rates and mental health crises
increase in drug overdoses and substance abuse, economic devastation, food
insecurity and hunger and a surge in domestic violence. https://fee.org/articles/4-life-threatening-unintended-consequences-of-the-lockdowns/
Yet despite
these known facts, policy makers, public health officials and the media still
continue to promote and advocate for what caused these horrendous outcomes! To
add insult to injury the powers that be are hell-bent on controlling the
narrative so that no discussion, debate, alternative options and therapies
other than vaccines are considered! What’s up with that? Its okay to admit you
made an error in judgment or that your data was flawed. But you cannot in good
conscience keep doing the same thing over and over and think you will get a
different result, especially when what you are doing has never been done in
human history. That is the definition of insanity.
The damage has been done. Now we need
to investigate ways to create open dialogue to damp down the division and
acrimony, decrease the censorship and work to find ways to restore mental
health, confidence and good decision making. Unfortunately we are being driven
towards what is being called The Great
Reset ahttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/
social engineering agenda being formulated by oligarchs that like the COVID-19
“mitigation policies” will turn out to be far more disruptive/worse than COVID
itself.
A year has passed let us learn the
valuable lessons from this experience and move towards real healing, recovery
and stability.
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Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As
we celebrate Women’s History Month we will focus on women of African descent
who may not be well known but who nevertheless positively impacted their
communities, the nation and the larger society. Today we are going to share the
life story of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin an activist, journalist and newspaper
publisher in Nineteenth century USA.
Josephine
St. Pierre was born in Boston
Massachusetts on August 31, 1842
into one of that city’s prominent families. Her mother was an English born
white woman and her father was a Black man born on the Caribbean island of Martinique
who migrated to the US and
was the founder of the Boston
Zion Church.
Her parents sent her to Salem
to attend schools that allowed African Americans students.
In 1858 at the
age of fifteen Josephine married George Lewis Ruffin and the couple established
their home in Boston.
George Lewis Ruffin was the first Black to graduate from Harvard
Law School;
he also served on the Boston city council, the Massachusetts legislature and as a municipal judge in Boston. The couple had
five children and they were very active in the abolitionist movement.
During the War
Between the States Josephine Ruffin was active in recruiting soldiers for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments in the
Union Army. She was engaged in charity work in Boston. Like many Northern Black activists,
the Ruffins saw the Civil War as an opportunity to make ending slavery a focal
point of the war.
Following
her husband’s death, Mrs Ruffin remained active in social issues. “In
1879, Ruffin created the Boston Kansas Relief Association. The organization was
dedicated to helping African Americans settle in Kansas. After the death of her husband in
1888, Ruffin became even more involved in social activism. She became the
editor of The Woman's Era, a newspaper devoted to the needs and concerns of
African American women.” https://www.ourbiography.com/josephine-st-pierre-ruffin/
She
was enthusiastically engaged in the women’s suffrage movement and was a major
force in the bourgeoning women’s club movement on the local and national levels.
She helped convene several national women’s conventions. “In 1894,
Ruffin formed the Women's New Era Club of Boston and served as its first
president. She also brought together several African-American women's groups
for the First National Conference of Colored Women in 1895. The following year,
the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Woman's Era Clubs of Boston
and the Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C., merged to become the
National Association of Colored Women.
Ruffin was also active in the women's suffrage and the
temperance movements. She was member of the Massachusetts School Suffrage
Association and the Massachusetts Moral Education Association. Through these
organizations, Ruffin became acquainted with Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone.
She may have been accepted into clubs for white women, but she still faced
racial prejudice.” https://www.ourbiography.com/josephine-st-pierre-ruffin/
“Believing that a national organization
for black women was needed, she convened the first annual convention in 1895
which drew 100 women from 20 clubs across the United States. She named the
organization the National Federation of Afro-Am Women, which a year later
united with the Colored Women’s League to become the National Association of
Colored Women. Mary Church Terrell was the organization’s president while
Ruffin and several others served as vice-presidents.” Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/ruffin-josephine-st-pierre-1842-1924/
Ruffin stated the goal of the
women’s club movement was to get African-American women engaged and into the
fore of social change. “We are women, American women, as intensely interested
in all that pertains to us as such as all other American women; we are not
alienating or withdrawing, we are only coming to the front, willing to join any
others in the same work and welcoming any others to join us.” https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2014/01/african-american-women-in-the-civil-war.html
Mrs.
Ruffin was a journalist, editor and publisher. She edited Women’s Era the first newspaper edited and published by
African-American women from 1890 to 1897. She was a founding member of the
Boston NAACP in 1910 and remained active in Boston social affairs for many years. She
made transition on March 13, 1924.
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The Roots of Black ANtipathy Towards the US Medical Establishment
The Roots of Black Antipathy Towards the US Medical Establishment
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
The current global coronavirus
situation and the roll out of SARS-CoV-2 injections has refocused attention on
the reasons Blacks remain skeptical of the motives of the government, the
health care system in general, Big Pharma in particular and why so many
African-Americans are reluctant to take the COVID injections. The history and
reasons for this skepticism date back hundreds of years to enslavement, through
the “Jim Crow” apartheid era to the present.
During enslavement Black bodies
were used without their consent for pleasure, experimentation and sterilization
while they were alive and for study, autopsy, amputation and dissection (which
all too often included mutilation) after they died. In addition to
“experimenting” and surgery on live Blacks without use of anesthesia, whites frequently
stole Black bodies from graves to autopsy and dissect (mutilate).
“The 19th century saw a boom
in medical education, with the number of American med schools increasing from 4
to 160. This meant the legal supply of cadavers was suddenly insufficient and
created demand for ‘resurrected’ bodies in both Britain
(think: Burke and Hare) and the U.S.
A group of free blacks in 1787
petitioned the city of New York
to stop people from robbing bodies from their graves in the Negro Burying
Ground but were unsuccessful. When the body of a white woman was discovered stolen
a year later, New Yorkers took action and rioted.” How Grave Robbers and Medical Students
Helped Dehumanize 19th Century Blacks and the Poor by Kristina
Killgrove https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/13/dissected-bodies-and-grave-robbing-evidence-of-unequal-treatment-of-19th-century-blacks-and-poor/
Black grave robbing goes back centuries; robbing Black
cemeteries was so popular they called the grave robbers “resurrectors”. Whites paid Blacks to pilfer the graves of
newly deceased Blacks so they could be used for their experiments. They figured
Blacks in a Black cemetery would be less suspicious. For hundreds of years
individual “doctors” and later medical schools used Black bodies without consent
or paying compensation to the families! “New York,
Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Maine, and Ohio all passed anti-grave robbing laws in
the first half of the 19th century. They didn’t work. Even
worse, the laws were particularly ineffective ‘for those groups generally
targeted for such activity: African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants,
and the poor.’” Ibid
During the early 20th century Rockefeller
and Carnegie schemed to monopolize medical education, petrochemicals and pharmaceutical
drugs. Using Pasteur’s “germ theory” Rockefeller pushed drugs made from oil and
petrochemicals as the solution. Medical schools many supported by Rockefeller
money embraced this notion of treatment.
Use of dead bodies (cadavers)
became an integral part of 20th century medical education and
research, hence the increasing need for free cadavers. Over the years, live
Blacks were also used for experimentation and study often unbeknownst to the
subjects or their families. While the establishment of medical schools and
hospitals increased often funded by oligarchs like Rockefeller, most of these
facilities were closed to Blacks. Or they limited Black patients due to
government sanctioned racial apartheid.
The Flexner Report published in 1910 paid for
by Carnegie (at the behest of Rockefeller) supposedly to evaluate and standardize
US
medical education was used by Rockefeller and Carnegie to eliminate competing
disciplines and therapies such as: naturopathy, osteopathic medicine and
homeopathy but the report also led to the closure of several pioneering Black
medical schools. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicaleducation/87171
In an attempt to remedy these
conditions Blacks founded their own hospitals, medical colleges and nursing
schools. Black morticians used their carriages and hearses as ambulances
because white ambulances would not transport Blacks and there were very few
places to transport them that would treat Blacks! The sting of this legacy lingers
today despite the passage of civil rights and social welfare funding
legislation that has mitigated many of these policies.
Here is a list of the historic
Black hospitals: Freedman’s Hospital (now Howard University Hospital)
was founded in 1862 as part of the Freedman’s Bureau and it was established to
address the needs of the newly freed Blacks. It was and still is a federally
funded facility. Provident Hospital founded in 1891 in Chicago Illinois
by a Black Doctor Daniel Hale Williams to train Black nurses and interns. Other
pioneering Black hospitals were: the Frederick Douglass
Memorial Hospital
and Training School founded in 1895 in Philadelphia
by Dr. Nathan F. Mossell and Lincoln Hospital in Durham, North Carolina founded in 1901 by Aaron Moore and staffed
by Black doctors from the Leonard Medical School
at Shaw University
the first four year medical school for Blacks in the US. Lincoln
was also assisted by the influential Washington Duke a white tobacco magnate
and industrialist (Duke
University is named after
him and his family). These ground-breaking facilities were all part of the
Black hospital movement.
In
addition to this sordid history, there is also a long tradition of disrespect,
maltreatment and callousness towards Blacks by “medical professionals”,
hospital staffs, pharmacists and other health care agents. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32032-8/fulltext
Until these issues are addressed and rectified don’t expect Blacks to fully
trust or embrace the health care system or their programs.
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Free Afro-American Activism
Free Afro-American Activism
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“The impetus behind the national black
convention movement was growing concern over the status of blacks in the United States,
with Hezekiah Grice initiating the movement. Grice was a young black abolitionist
who had actively participated in antislavery activities with white
abolitionists Benjamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison, in Baltimore, Maryland
during the 1820s, and whose sentiments came to a head after the Cincinnati Riot
in 1829, which resulted in anti-black violence.” National Black Conventions
and the Quest for African-American Freedom and Progress 1847-1867 Shawn C.
Comminey International Social Science Review https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1107&context=issr
When we think of
our sojourn here during the British colonial period and following the creation
of the United States,
all too often we only think of enslavement. We tend to forget or never knew
there was a significant population of free Blacks both in the north and the
south.
Free Blacks despite their “freedom” were not
integrated within the larger society. While many were successful farmers and
entrepreneurs, their lot was not guaranteed because their status was dependent
upon the largess of the dominate society.
In fact many whites viewed them with suspicion and fear because they
felt free Blacks gave enslaved Blacks ideas and hope about freedom. There was
also the issue of competition for work, living spaces and land use, as well as
the notion that America
was a white man’s nation. This resulted in free Blacks being targeted with
recurring violence and organized riots by whites. Free Blacks were not only
concerned about their own precarious status but also that of their enslaved
brethren.
In the midst of
this tension Blacks came together to discuss what they perceived as their own
best options and what they could do to better the lot of enslaved
Afro-Americans. These gatherings were called Negro Conventions. “The National Convention met a
dozen times before the Civil War in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and New York State. The catalyst for the first
meeting in Philadelphia centered upon a proposal
by city leaders to oust Cincinnati’s
black population as a response to conflict that had emerged over job
competition between black and white men. The Cincinnati Riot of
1829 led black leaders to organize throughout the Midwest
and Northeast in protest against anti-black violence, discrimination, and slavery.” National Negro Convention Movement 1831-1864 https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/national-negro-convention-movement-1831-1864/
The discussions
during these conventions reflected the social, political and economic tenor of
the day. The violence endured by enslaved Afro-Americans and the tensions and
conflict experienced by free Blacks prompted free Blacks to meet to discuss
their situation. These were not merely meetings to “blow off steam” and vent.
They featured serious discussions and often included plans to immigrate back to
Africa (either on their own or as part of the American Colonization Society’s
plan to establish a colony of free Blacks in Africa), to Canada or form their
own independent settlements beyond the confines of the territorial United
States (which I’ll share in another article). They often pooled their resources
to help the campaign to abolish slavery by supporting Blacks who printed
newspapers, pamphlets and books. Others spoke out ardently attempting to
persuade free Blacks to leave the US because they did not feel whites
would ever open society and allow Blacks to thrive in a completely free
atmosphere.
Our ancestors did
not see themselves as powerless victims. They fully understood the reality of
their quasi free status and they wanted better for themselves and their
enslaved people. Coming together to meet was merely one of the ways they
attempted to alter their condition and make things better for themselves and
their enslaved brethren. They also took action by petitioning the government
and by starting their own communities. We’ll discuss this in another article.
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