The Last Negro: A Tribal People of Color in the United States
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The Last Negro - Krim M. Ballentine
© 2011 Krim M. Ballentine. All rights reserved.
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First published by AuthorHouse 04/14/2011
ISBN: 978-1-4490-4617-0 (hc)
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ISBN: 978-1-4490-4619-4 (ebk)
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Contents
Introduction
In the Beginning
Preliminary History
Skin Color Does Not a Negro Make!
Free Men, A
U. S. Constitution Statement
The First Negro
Negro Defined by Courts
The Negro Revolution (Eric Hoffer)
Current Negro Problem
Today’s American Negro
Re-empowerment of Negro Parents
Introduction
Why would a collective people, ancestral descendants of tribes of and in Africa, allow others to define negro, a Spanish word expressing the color black, as a people? Then, continue by allowing the word negro to be skewed into something dirty and creating a need of defense? This writing destroys any shame, avoidance and inhibitions relative to the word negro: demand that it be capitalized in compliance with any prevailing language uses and further, as a proper noun, demand use of the word be reincorporated in our American language and society.
An addendum to the introduction
In year two thousand and eight, United States elected its first person of color American as their President, Senator Barak Obama. How easily the title The Last Negro became appropriate by that election, as the media touts his election as being the First Black President; it is easy to see his skin color while ignoring the skin color of the forty-three (43) persons before him, never proved that they are black or white or other.
The title, The Last Negro, is even more prominent in expectations when one realizes that other persons of color ran for the presidential election to the Office of the President as being African American or other person of color and the now President Obama sought the position as an American appealing to other Americans.
In the Beginning
Who are we to accept or reject the definition of negro sufficient to demand that it be capitalized as a proper noun? Why must we accept the dirty meaning of negro to the point that we would rather call ourselves the English interpretive black, still a skin color and non-African? Is it better to be black than negro? Why as Americans or citizens of the United States, we do not redefine negro, capitalize it and adopt it to mean the ethnicity of a people in America of African descent?
Negro is as important an invention as American is to citizens of the United States. Was it skin color to cause racists? Or, was it the pre-genetic conception that one-sixteenth (1/16th) black defined negro blood (?) made one negro regardless to skin color?
Eight persons in ones ancestry with one of the persons being negro multiplied by two equals sixteen, ergo, the one/sixteenth (1/16th) negro blood speculative. While the Creator made the colors of His creations, man made the colors into ethnicity and race. Ergo, this is the preamble to this writing.
Accomplishments in America were not accomplishments by Africans, Afro-Americans or slaves and ex-slaves but by negro people, later calling themselves colored, later calling themselves Blacks, then Afro-Americans and most recently, African Americans. The people were free men
as defined in the Constitution of the United States made slaves and negroes by the mouths of White people. No writing in The Constitution of the United States mandates slavery in any form.
Dictionaries do not define terms, but explains usage of words that people define by their usage. The negro of the United States like others, searched only for respect; respect pursued by all living creatures, the respect of their exercised and exhibited humanity. They sought respect in a name, Negro.
Today, Negroes seem in pursuit of admiration, acceptance and being politically correct and not human ignored. They pursue and invent a lost history and justification of a historic existence to the detriment of a present and future direction, later to become history.
Surely, making history is a better pursuit of a people than dwelling on history already made. Negroes, like all people must use the history of their yesterdays as plans and pursuits of their future.
Do you know that watermelon is originally an African fruit brought to the United States in the 1600’s? Do you know what a guinea fowl is and that they too are African origins imported to the United States? Do you know that Spain occupied by the Moors three periods: the Arab emirate (759-1031), the Almoravids and Almohads (1086-1212) and the Nasrid Dynasty in the South (1230-1492)?
Do you know that the Moors, in Spain, built the Cathedral of Cordoba (786-999), one of the world’s greatest mosques, the Cordoba mosque in the Moorish court of Seville and the Giralda, now the cathedral bell tower? Do you know that the Alhambra palace, in Granada, was also an effort completed by Moors between the years 1238-1391? (1997 Grolier’s Electronic Encyclopedia)
Also from that source is an explanation of the Moors:
Moor (from Latin, Maurus) is sometimes used to denote a member of the Muslim populations of North Africa and, by extension, the Arab and Arabicized Berber conquerors of Spain, who established Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula from the 8th to the 17th century. The term has also been applied specifically to the populations of Morocco and Mauritania and occasionally to refer to Muslims in general, as in the Moors of the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Today the term is rarely used except in reference to the Moorish art and architecture that reached its pinnacle in the medieval Spain.
In accordance with anthropological attributes of the three race designation, Caucasian, Mongolian and Negroid, the Moors were