Many blacks appear to be unhappy in America....a few have found a good solution.......
Back to Africa? For some African-Americans, the answer is yes
The government needs to step in and help those who want to return...perhaps a significant movement could be birthed.
Think of it as: reparations for repatriation. It is quite obvious that 'integration' has failed...as Abraham Lincoln said so long ago...........'Just too many differences in them to ever to live together in the same society on a equal basis' ...time we faced reality and quit spending billions of dollars trying to make a failed social policy work.
'Thomas Jefferson said, matter of factly, that Negroes could never live under the same government as white people. The Dred Scott decision of the United States Supreme Court detailed how persons of African descent were never intended to be part of the body-politic and were forever excluded from participation of citizenship. Even the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln, favored Back-to-Africa for Negroes.
The American Colonization Society, which worked feverishly toward repatriation, had many prominent patriots as members, during the Revolutionary War period, including Francis Scott Key. Even Abolitionism, at the time of the Civil War, did not particularly conflict with the repatriation objective. President Ulysses S. Grant, the Union Civil-War general, proposed -- not once but twice -- legislation to repatriate Negroes (freed slaves and other "persons of color") to Haiti. The bills were narrowly defeated in the Congress. Grant insisted that Haiti could accommodate fifteen million Negroes, more than the entire Negro population of America, at the time.
The country of Liberia, established by President James Monroe, was set up specifically as a terminus of freed slaves returning to Africa and approved overwhelmingly by the Congress. The capital, Monrovia, is named for the American President who not only gave us the Monroe Doctrine, to free America from European intervention, but the Back-to-Africa plan, to free the nation from African occupation. Liberia, to this day, maintains a traditional welcome for repatriated Negroes and its very name was conjured up to appeal to those coming out from under White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant (WASP) rule in America.
Repatriation, also, gained momentum through such spokesmen as Senators Ben "Pitchfork" Tillman of South Carolina and Theo. G. "The Man" Bilbo of Mississippi. Bilbo had collected an astounding three-million petition signatures of Negroes desiring Back-to-Africa, in the period following World War II. His book,
Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization, became a best-seller in the Forties and Fifties.'
Reparations as Travel Allotments
