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The shared struggle between Black South Africans and Black Americans: Where is the generational wealth?

A lack of generational weath places Black Americans and Africans in the same boat By Mona Austin (The Slice): Black South Africans and Black Americans share the challenge of being divided from their counterparts by a gaping wealth gap. In South Africa, much like in America, Blacks built the country, but do not have the economic power to control it. While Black Africans gained control of the goverment in 1994 when apartheid fell, Afrikaners retained economic strength. There remains a wealth gap despite the large poplation of Blacks there (80%) as Whites inherited more business and land. Without a balace of resources alog wit govermenta control Black Africans will always hae less power and so it is in Am,erica. There are over 100 countries on the continent of Africa. It is a land rich with natural resources that intruders stripped from natives. European colonizers paid little or nothing and used Black labor to develop various countries on the continent, which gave them systematic ...

Biden calls out white supremacy in Day of Remebrance Proclamation on Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial

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  By Mona Austin  Pres. Joe Biden has officially proclaimed this Memorial Day  as a DAY OF REMEMBRANCE commemorating the lives lost in a race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma 100 years ago today that destroyed "Black Wall Street." In  asking the nation to remember the incident Biden is bringing to the fore front one of the  darkest days in American history. Also known as the Greenwood District, the area was built by Blacks one generation removed from the slavery era. The solemn occasion is marked by the recent exumption of Black victims  killed that day from a mass grave, who were previously unknown.  By order of the Tulsa mayor, GT Bynum, 12 caskets were found and possibly 30 bodies. White Tulsans criticized Bynum for re-opening the investigative escavation in 2018 saying he is making the city look bad. There had been deflection and secrecy concerning the lost bodies on both sides over the past century. In his proclamation, Biden called out the tragedy ...