There is a privilege that many in America today live without knowing it exist. Let’s be real, Unless you have been there and have walked a mile in our shoes, you are just whistling dixie. The NFL along with the President of the United States black balled colin Kapernic for exercising his rights as a United states of America Citizen. But I guess that easy when you are 3/5ths of a man right. This term is Often misinterpreted to mean that African Americans as individuals are considered three-fifths of a person or that they are three-fifths of a citizen of the U.S. So now that I have you scratching your head, here we go, the three-fifths clause (Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution of 1787) in fact declared that for purposes of representation in Congress. However the 1% have ran with this to represent the value of a Black person. No other race, country or creed have I ever heard a person referred to in a percentage. I have one even better, The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood)[1][2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). To this effect being considered less than a person, and yet there was Racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces, which has included separation of white and non-white American troops, quotas, restriction of people of color troops to support roles, and outright bans on blacks and other people of color serving in the military, has been a part of the military history of the United States since the American Revolution.
Anyway lets get to something positive. Here is some Black History. Some will say why black history instead of American history Bryan? Well because I refer to history as His story, because we learned what he wanted us to know and he has told His Story the way he remembers. See this is time I usually challenge your intellect on what I just said, if you don’t get it pause go back 10 seconds. The 369th Infantry Regiment, which became known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” was an all-African American unit in World War I. Aside from seeing more combat than all other U.S. outfits and having a world-famous ragtime band, support remember support. The Hellfighters were also home to Pvt. Henry Johnson. Johnson, who President Theodore Roosevelt described as one of the “five bravest Americans” who served in the war, single-handedly fought off more than 20 Germans and saved a fellow soldier from capture – all while injured and armed only with a bolo knife. These courageous actions earned Johnson the nickname “Black Death” from the German army, because of this France bestowed Pvt Johnson France’s highest military honor. After the war, Johnson returned home to a welcoming parade in his native New York City and was posthumously awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in 2015.
