African American: The Challenge

By Charles Elias Mahlangu

As an African who has deeply experienced racial hatred and oppression, Dr. Charles urges blacks to look deeply into the mirror, taking responsibility for the current state. Casting off the popular narrative to embody a victim mentality, the author gives dignity through empowerment. The author leaves no room for hatred but a sobering call to

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Contents

Foreword

Author’s Note

Introduction: African American: The Challenge

Chapter 1: African Americans Historical Background

Chapter 2: African Americans and Crime, Violence, and Homicide

Chapter 3: African American: Break the Incarceration Recidivism Syndrome

Chapter 4: The Tragedy of the African American Incarceration Syndrome

Chapter 5: African American: Divorce

Chapter 6: Significance of the African American Father

Chapter 7: Moynihan Report

Chapter 8: African American Females and Sexuality

Chapter 9: Intimate Partner Violence

Chapter 10: Sexual Victimization

Chapter 11: Precious Princess: Disclose

Chapter 12: Invisible Betrayal: Police Violence and Rape of Black Women

Chapter 13: Obama and the LGBT Agenda

Chapter 14: African American LGBT Ascendancy and Prayers

Chapter 15: Abortion and the African American

Chapter 16: Abortion: Prayer of Repentance

Chapter 17: African American: Sexually transmitted Infections

Chapter 18: HIV/AIDS in Gay Bisexual Males

Chapter 19: Prayers by African American Church Leaders for Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual/Transgender

Chapter 20: Hip Hop Rap

Chapter 21: African American Celebrities: Luciferians/Satanists

Chapter 22: The World of Freemasons: African American

Chapter 23: Black-on-Black Homicide? African Americans Must Repent

Chapter 24: Restorative Justice: Reparations

Chapter 25: Doing Restorative Justice Justly

Chapter 26: Cycle of Unresolved Racial Hostilities: History of Slavery

Chapter 27: African Americans Must Take Responsibility

Chapter 28: Who Is Going to Tell the Truth?

Chapter 29: Calls for Prayer for the African American Nation

Way of Salvation

Bibliography

Foreword

Perhaps the hardest things to look at are the characteristics we despise within ourselves. Sin permeates the very fabric of our nature, and it wages war against righteousness. As we peer in, we are prone to feel a host of emotions associated with regret. Perhaps this is why it is so easy to be critical and judgmental of the things we hate about ourselves that we observe in others. The Christian life, the redeemed life knows all too well that without this amazing grace, there is no good within us apart from Christ in us. This redemption is a new reality, one that is built on hope and the assurance of God’s continual work in and through us.

It is with this hope that Dr. Mahlangu has written this powerful and exhaustive account of the present state of the African American people. The reader will be forced to look at the hardest characteristics and struggle through the implications. This is a struggle because Christians are purchased by Christ into action. This gospel of reconciliation is one that seeks the reconciliation of all (2 Corinthians 5:17–21) that is lost, and this book presents a profound dilemma to our humanity. How many will continue to watch the moral degeneration of the African American people?

The author meticulously removes layer after layer of historical occurrence, telling a story of a people who survived multiple systems of oppression and racial hatred. The painstaking process provides insight into the devastating breakdown of the family unit and the horrific consequences to follow. The statistical analysis in this account presents a spiritual and moral decline that is sobering to any political orientation.

As an African who has deeply experienced racial hatred and oppression, Dr. Charles urges blacks to look deeply into the mirror, taking responsibility for the current state. Casting off the popular narrative to embody a victim mentality, the author gives dignity through empowerment. The author leaves no room for hatred but a sobering call to embrace God-given dignity to overcome by transformation of identity and behavior.

This book is birthed from Dr. Charles’ deep love for African American people and awareness of the wounds they have sustained. This book emerges from a place of mourning and deep concern for black boys and girls living in fatherless homes. Dr. Mahlangu reveals numerous sources of research that provide evidence correlating high rates of fatherlessness with high rates of crime, teenage pregnancy, school dropout, incarceration, prostitution, and other consequences.

It is these statistics and this analysis of the African American situation that provokes the most careful consideration. For it is in these details that one encounters Dr. Mahlangu’s most compelling and difficult truth—that responsibility can no longer be aborted and flushed away from sight. African Americans cannot afford to be manipulated by the notion that all of these social indicators are results of racism. Dr. Mahlangu’s case focuses on glaring hypocrisies propagated by black leaders and politicians. A case that asks the most glaring and obvious questions that emerge from the data. Data that suggests that as black people, our most imminent danger is not the police, is not systemic racism, is not the legacy of racism, is not the lack of black leaders or president… Our problem is us. Today, the problem is us.

This book is a treatise and an indictment for the perpetrators of perpetual black enslavement, blacks especially. For the black reader who is awake and has recovered from their anger at this notion, this is and should be good news. Black people do not need Black Lives Matter to tell them what matters. In the 1950s and ’60s, in the midst of racism, the black family was far healthier and far better employed than today. This is good news because we are not inferior; we are responsible, and we need not be helped by politicians that manipulate emotions for our vote and our protest.

This book reveals the hypocrisy and the lie that victimhood for black Americans is legitimate. This book reveals the truth and the hypocrisy that Black Lives Matter avoids confronting the main killers of black bodies. This book calls out BLM for their silence and reveals their indifference to the millions of black lives lost to abortion annually. This is a movement that supports the absence of the black male as a father and the destruction this causes the community at large.

This account is an indictment against politicians and black leaders who have made their careers from convincing black people that the source of their problem is white people and their hatred for black people. It is an accusation that these black leaders have avoided discussing the disgusting nature of rap culture and its endorsement of drug dealing, murder, and sexual violence against women. These pages cry out to eyes blinded by leaders who would build racism into every black mind as the issue plaguing black life. Dr. Charles asks, Who will tell the truth?

Here is the truth, The staggering tragedy of the African American is the culture of the absent male in the African American community. The staggering tragedy of the African American is boys and girls who will never escape the broken-home syndrome that characterizes the black community. Charles, a father and a husband, whose love for both his children and his wife I have witnessed now for forty years, has wept into these pages. It matters that the writer has committed himself faithfully to one wife and not left his post. It matters that he has loved the lives of his children and not left them fatherless. It matters that he has loved and led blacks as a pastor. It matters that he has wept and mourned with the broken-hearted, HIV infected, the raped and molested. He has cared for and served the victim. He has helped heal the perpetrator. He has not been in a lofty tower writing speeches. He has been cleaning and mending wounds. His life has been committed to loving broken communities and helping heal black families. Furthermore, he has been a champion for reconciliation and healing while married to a white bride. Delores is courageous and bold. There is no hood or ghetto that she is afraid of. Her marriage to Charles was a commitment to join him in serving African families till her dying day.

Charles and Delores would recoil from any notion that their goodness can be boasted in at all. The point of bringing up morality or successful parenting as license for writing this book is quite simple: we seek to learn how to heal our most devastating wounds from men and woman whom have healed and gone on to heal others. In the field of ministry, Dr. Mahlangu has tested everything that he has written. He is a victim of a physically abusive father and became a loving and gentle father. He grew up under a racist apartheid government and learned to embrace and love his white brothers and sisters. His power to overcome has been the transformative relationship with Christ.

For Charles, racial reconciliation and the restoration of black people is one rooted in the power of Christ and the reality of new identity in Christ. It requires no political or ideological structure. Charles believes that restoration begins with healing. At the root of this healing is an awareness that there is a hemorrhaging wound that is not a black wound but a human wound. Every human who knows the Lord in a right relationship has received forgiveness for sin, the most basic element of Christian salvation that the human takes part in. It comes from an awareness that change is needed from outside from a Creator that can renew and redeem. God does not need a system or a government to change in order to change a heart or a mind. God does not need the world to be a just and fair place in order to save souls and grow people into Christ-like people.

Bongani Mahlangu

Bo was conceived on December 31, 1978, in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Bo grew up in Southern Africa, Canada, and the United States. Growing up in a multicultural home and living in diverse contexts have contributed to his informed worldview. Race identity and the cultural nuances that follow have been constant themes affecting his life. Having a father who grew up as a black man in apartheid South Africa and a white mother who grew up in the USA and Canada presented many lenses from which to observe the world.

Growing up in this family also presented the opportunity to meet many people, many of whom were being pastored, mentored, or otherwise helped by his parents. Even decades before his conversion to Christianity, long before his own encounter with the Lord, Bo would witness this profound love for God and, therefore, a love for people exhibited by his parents.

This transcended into a life of serving and supporting vulnerable people in professional capacities. He has served in roles that have worked with homelessness, mental illness, cognitive disability, inner city youth at risk, recovering addicts, and those struggling with behavioral issues.

His life was changed radically when he became a Christian which led his life into ministry. He is a graduate of Fuller Seminary in California where he graduated with a master’s degree in theology and ministry. He has served two churches in senior leadership roles where his passions are teaching, building teams, and discipling men.

Bo married a Canadian and has three children. He is a Christian who believes that the most important roles and responsibilities he will ever have are being his wife’s husband and his children’s father until he meets the Lord.

Your word have I treasured in my heart, that I might not sin against you. (Psalm 119:11)

Author’s Note

While I was writing the manuscript for What Have You Done, South Africa?, this is the manifestation from God the Holy Spirit by the dream that I received: two African American women uttered to me, These men are messed up socially and spiritually. I immediately concluded that the Lord was giving the assignment to research and publish African American: The Challenge.

While I was thinking about the assignment on the African American, I received another manifestation from God the Holy Spirit by a dream. Vice President Senator Hubert Humphrey is addressing a group of former students from other nations who studied in the USA and returned home having benefitted from the USA. He said, All of you who benefitted from this great nation, this is your mandate to pay back to the USA—by doing good to this country since you owe this country.

God the Holy Spirit is affirming through this dream that my mandate is to publish African American: The Challenge. The United States provided me with graduate education. American Christians have been supporting us as missionaries since 1980 till to date. Throughout the Bible college and seminary years, it has been American Christians who have provided financial support to our ministry, as well as other ministries in South Africa.

Introduction

African American: The Challenge

African Americans are a beautiful race that has suffered from slavery. African Americans suffered from official racism in the Southern States. African Americans survived slavery and official racism in the Southern States.

Tragedy of African Americans is not driving while black; it is black-on-black violence throughout the nation’s cities as a way of life.

Tragedy of African Americans is not wrongful arrest imprisonment by racist justice system; it is 72 percent babies born to unwed mothers.

Tragedy of African American is not white cops killing blacks in scandalous figures; it is over 75 percent of marriages ending with divorce.

Tragedy of African Americans is not mass incarceration. African American males kill other African Americans in ways police have not done, in ways whites have not killed other whites, in ways Hispanic males have not killed other Hispanic males. The tragedy of African American is not mass incarceration; it is the scandal of 93 percent black-on-black homicides in the US.

Tragedy of African Americans is not white racism; it is almost half of black pregnancies are aborted. African Americans abort more than whites and Hispanic. About twenty million abortions have taken place in the black race since Roe versus Wade.

Tragedy of African Americans is not white bigotry. African Americans carry a bigger burden of almost all sexually transmissible infections (treatable and untreatable) compared to all races.

Tragedy of African Americans is not racism; it is the fact that by age seventeen, 83 percent of African American teens live in broken families.

Tragedy of African American is not racist America despite what black leaders civil rights leaders, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, or Louis Farrakhan, New Black Panther Party or even Black Lives Matter say, or the protesting kneeling down NFL professional players or even Angela Davis. It is the two-year-old who will never see her father in this life or the five-year-old who has never seen a father in her life or a ten-year-old girl who has never known what a father is like.

Tragedy of African American is not white racism; it is the marital decline affecting African Americans in extraordinary ways compared to whites and Hispanics.

The African American family survived slavery. The African American family survived Jim Crow laws. However, during the pre-1960s even briefly, there were more married African Americans than whites. The introduction of the President Johnson’s Civil Rights Laws in 1965 curiously began the gradual and radical decimation of the family fabric of the African American.

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s ground-breaking research, The 1965 Report: Negro Family, suggested what was plaguing the Negro family and society and what steps needed attention. The Moynihan report showed that the African American family has the makings of being female-headed. Moynihan warned that if the absence of the black male is not corrected in the black family, the repercussions would be boundless in the black race. African American intellectuals rejected Moynihan as racist. Civil rights leaders rejected and regarded Moynihan as racist. Today, fifty-five years since the Moynihan Report was published, the African American family is more fragmented than all other races. Today, the absent male in the African American family is more severe than all race groups comparatively. Today, over 75 to 80 percent of children are born to single mothers.

Since the signing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1965, there are notable developments that have affected the black community.

Where there were strong husband and wife marriages in the black community, there has been a scandalous decline of marriages statistically. There is a lower percentage of marriages among African Americans compared to other races in the country. Where there were more husband and wife marriages before 1965, now there is a radical breakdown of marriages in the black community. Where children were raised by two parents as husband and wife in the black family for generations, before 1965, there is now a dramatic breakdown of the traditional family fabric in the black community. Compared to other races, the African American family has been severely disintegrated.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, blacks were not identified with the culture of drug use that has come to characterize the African American. Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, the black race was not associated with gang culture that now grips inner cities as a way of life in the black community. Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, the black race was not known to be significant occupants of penitentiaries compared to other races. Blacks are 13 percent of national population, but they make up over 33 percent of prison population.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, blacks did not have the highest rates of sexually transmissible infection compared to other races. Blacks carry the burden of leading the other races in almost every sexually transmissible infection in the nation. Black teens have higher infections rates in almost every sexually transmissible infection. More than half of African American women will contract herpes.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, blacks did not have the highest rates of HIV/AIDS virus in the country. Black gay bisexual males have the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world.

Since the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, 70 to 80 percent of children are born to single mothers in the black community.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, the black male was not absent from the family in scandalous proportion.

African American teenage females report higher levels of domestic sexual abuse and exploitation compared to other races. It is a pattern that the domestic sexual abuse and exploitation is kept hidden within the black community so that the outside world of white law enforcement will not be aware of this black race scandal.

African American women have the highest rates of intimate partner violence. Compared to other races, African American women do not report the personally experienced intimate partner violence to police.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, the black race was not a world leader in performing abortions. There have been twenty million abortions among African Americans out of a total of sixty million abortions in the US since 1973. While African Americans are 13 percent of the US population, they have performed a third of abortions nationally since 1973.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, blacks did not have scandalous divorce rates. Now 75 percent of marriages end in divorce. This is the highest divorce rate in the world. Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, marriages were significantly higher in number than currently.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, the black race was not invaded by the LGBTQ agenda. The gay-bisexual culture has successfully invaded the black race. The black race has embraced the gay-bisexual culture as the new sophisticated way of life. Obama, the first black president in the country, became the first head of state to celebrate the LGBTQ agenda in ways no head of state had ever done. Because of the rise of LGBTQ, black families and marriages suffer as men leave their families.

Before the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, there was no such thing as black-on-black murder in the black community. Cities are noted for highest incidence of black males killing other black males.

Even prison is cited as a case of racism. Blacks are in prison as a new form of Jim Crow. Blacks are excused from criminal accountability. There seems to be a common bond among African Americans to agree to be unified to use the race card to excuse black criminality. Violent black youths are excused for their attacks on whites. No one is going to the most powerful media and confirm the truth that the black race is the only race on earth that defends and excuses its criminals.

Since the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, black civil rights leaders, intellectuals, and voted politicians have compounded the culture of blaming white America for all black misery. African American leaders, university educated intellectuals, and civil rights leaders have made a career of promoting the victim syndrome. Black senators from the Democratic Party and members of the Black Caucus are notorious in using the race card to endorse the culture of victimology. White America and racism are blamed for all the systemic woes of the African American family and race. African Americans have become the most spoiled race in the world.

Black Lives Matter movement shares the same sentiments like civil rights leaders and voted senators and intellectuals. Black abortion does not matter to BLM. Blacks divorce rate (the highest in the world) does not matter to BLM. High rates of children born to single mothers (the highest in the world) does not matter to BLM. The African Americans having the highest rates of teenage pregnancy compared to all other races groups does not matter to BLM. The severe disintegration of the black family with the absent male (among the highest in the world) does not matter to BLM. The highest crime rates among blacks compared to all others race groups does not matter to BLM. The scandalous rates of black-on-black murder (the highest rates compared to other races) does not matter to BLM. The scandalous rates of sexually transmissible infections among blacks compared to all others races and black teenagers and adults having the highest rates in just about every sexually transmissible infection do not matter to BLM. The African American teenage females report the highest rates of sexual exploitation in the community compared to all other race groups does not matter to BLM.

The LGBTQ lifestyle has gripped the African Americans as special culture. The gay has gripped the black community. The black male having sex with male has gripped the African American community. The gay-bisexual male lifestyle has gripped the African American community. During his presidency, Barack Obama did everything in his power to elevate the LGBTQ agenda to the destruction of the black family. Male, community, and race do not matter to BLM.

African Americans have become a race that justifiably sees racism behind every bush.

*****

African Americans are the wealthiest blacks on earth. Entertainment industry Bill Cosby during the 1970s was considered the wealthiest human being in the world when his programs could be seen in all three TV networks: ABC, CBC, and CBS. Currently, his net worth is $400 million. Oprah Winfrey is the first black female entertainment industry billionaire. Joie Lee, actress/director, is worth $1.5 billion. She is sister to Director Spike Lee who is worth $40 million. Actor/musician Will Smith is worth $400 million. Dwayne Johnson is worth $320 million. Samuel Jackson is worth $250 million. Denzel Washington is worth $250 million. Morgan Freeman is worth $250 million. Diahann Carroll was worth $249 million. Eddie Murphy is worth $200 million. Chris Rock is worth $100 million. Jim Brown, actor/ football legend, is worth $50 million. Sydney Poitier is worth $30 million. Harry Belafonte is worth $30 million.

As a race, African Americans are regarded as the best athletes in the world. They are the best boxers, the best track athletes, and the best football stars. They excel in basketball and baseball.

African American athletes are among the wealthiest people in the world. Michael Jordan, in 2020, became the first sporting person billionaire in the world at $2.1 billion. Tiger Woods is the highest paid golf player in history at $800 million. Serena Williams has been the number one most earning woman player at $200 million for four years in a row in the world.

Black basketball players are among the wealthiest athletes in the world. Kobe Bryant was worth $600 million at the time of his death in January 2020. Shaquille O’Neal is worth $400 million. Venus Williams is worth $95 million. All professional black basketball players in the US, every one of them has a mega-multimillion contract.

African American baseball players are among the wealthiest players in the world. All professional baseball players in the US, every one of them has a mega-multimillion contract.

Black football stars are among the wealthiest players on earth. Every professional football player in the US, every one of them has mega-multimillion contract.

African American boxers have been the wealthiest boxers in the world. Floyd Mayweather is worth $560 million. George Foreman is worth $300 million. Sugar Ray Leonard is worth $120 million. Muhammad Ali was worth $80 million.

All African American professional hockey players are multimillionaires. Justin Bailey is worth $7 million. Francis Bouillon is worth $16 million. Donald Brashier is worth $5 million. JT Brown is worth $5 million. Gerald Coleman is worth $5 million. Robbie Earl’s contract is $500,000 annually. He is a multimillionaire. Mike Grier is worth $5 million.

African American track and field Olympic and world gold and silver medalists are multimillionaires. Edwin Moses, two-time Olympic gold medalist in 400-meter hurdler, is worth $4 million. Justin Gatlin, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $4–6 million. Maurice Green, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $85 million. Christian Coleman, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $34 million. Tyson Gay, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $15 million. Michael Johnson, mega Olympic gold medalist, is worth $11 million. Carl Lewis, mega Olympic gold medalist, is worth $20 million. Allyson Felix, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $8.5 million. Evelyn Ashford, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $86 million. Simone Biles, the Olympic gold medalist gymnasts who has won thirty world championship medals, is worth $4 million. Simone Manuel, Olympic Gold medalist swimmer, is worth $3 million. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic gold medalist, is worth $5 million.

African American musicians are among the wealthiest on earth. Jay-Z is hip-hop rap’s first billionaire. By 2020, Kanye West is worth $3.3 billion. Mos Def net worth is $1.5 million. P. Diddy’s wealth is over $900 million, almost billion. At his height, Michael Jackson was worth over $700 million. Beyonce is worth over $500 million. Dr. Dre is worth over $800 million. Diana Ross is worth $270 million. Tina Turner is worth $250 million. Robert L. Johnson, entrepreneur media magnate, is worth $600 million.

By August 2020, the following nine are the exclusive African American billionaires: investor Robert F. Smith is worth $5 billion; Gospel and R&B singer Benjamin Bebe Winans is worth $4.5 billion; Oprah Winfrey is worth $3.5 billion; David Steward is worth $3.5 billion; entertainer/businessman Kanye West is worth $3.3 billion; Michael Jordan, sporting personality/businessman, is worth $2.1 billion; entertainer Mos Def is worth $1.5 billion; Joie Lee, actress/director, is worth $1.5 billion; and hip-hop rap legend Jay-Z is worth $1 billion.

There are African American lawyers who are multimillionaires. The top richest African American lawyers include Willie E. Gray who is worth $200 million, Kenneth Chenault who is worth $110 million, Greg Mathis who is worth $14 million, Star Jones who is worth $20 million, Mablean Ephriam who is worth $15 million, and Lynn Toler who is worth $20 million.

Most famous civil rights lawyer and personal advisor to President Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan, is worth $12 million. Michelle Obama is worth $12 million. Former President Barack Obama is worth $40 million.

African American clergy, African American preachers are wealthy. T. D. Jakes is worth $147 million. Creflo Dollar is worth $27 million. Jessie Jackson is worth $9–15 million. Louis Farrakhan is worth $3–5 million.

African Americans are an attractive race. Their culture and styles are admired throughout the world. Who would have conceived that the black man’s celebration culture of high five would be copied by every country in the world?

While black Americans achieve material success, there is intrinsic social disintegration in the black community. While blacks have wealthy movie stars and celebrities from entertainment industry, there is a breakdown of moral fabric in the black community. The church of Jesus Christ has the solution for the agonies of the black community. The church has the spiritual solution for the social plagues that trouble the black community.

Is there hope for the African American?

Religion plays in big role in the upbringing of blacks. African Americans are among the best musicians in the world. They brought their own brand of passionate soul music to the world. They shared Negro spirituals with the world. They have their unique brand of worshipping God through music. Many successful black musicians, comedians, and movie stars were brought up in church.

The church of Jesus Christ has the solution for the agonies of the black community. The church has the spiritual solution for the social plagues that trouble the black community.

The church has the answer for the missing father syndrome and restoration of the black man as leader and father in the home.

The church has the remedy for the single-mother agony in the black community. It is the church of Jesus Christ that has resources to restore the black family and establish strong parents and families.

The church is the antidote to high divorce rates and has resources to reverse the tragedy of divorce and build marriages.

The church has the solution to reverse the abortion culture gripping the black community.

The church is the solution to highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the African American community.

The church has the solution to the crime syndrome that has become part of the black race.

The church has the solution to black-on-black murders.

The church has the solution to prison syndrome in the African American community.

The church has the solution to highest rates of sexually transmissible infections in the black community through addressing values and morality.

The church is the solution to the LGBTQ agenda that has robbed the black race of her male. The African American family and community is the hardest hit by family disintegration now has the face the gay-bisexual culture that removes the males from homes, wives, and children. While the LGBTQ agenda is celebrated by popular politicians, intellectuals, and Hollywood, it has haemorrhaged the black family.

Chapter 1

African Americans Historical Background

The first group of twenty African slaves from Western and Central Africa landed in the British colony of Jonestown, Virginia, in 1619.

Throughout the seventeenth century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as cheap labor source.

It is estimated that between six and seven million African slaves were brought to North America during the eighteenth century alone. Initially during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, African slaves worked on the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of the southern coast of colonies of Maryland, Virginia, South to Georgia.

In the North, slavery was relatively unimportant to the agricultural economy.

During the eighteenth century, the South would transition from tobacco to cotton, hence the dependence on slave labor.

Between 1774 and 1804, all the Northern States abolished slavery, but the so-called peculiar institution of slavery remained vital in the South. Though the US Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808, the domestic trade flourished. More than half of the slave population was in cotton-producing Southern states.

During the 1830s and 1860s, the Abolition Movement accelerated with Frederick Douglass and white supporters such as William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the best-seller antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

The Underground Rail Road of the 1830s sent slaves to the North: between forty thousand and one hundred thousand slaves reached freedom.

The Thirteenth Amendment, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery at the end of the Civil War.

After the war, there were challenges for former slaves in the South. Former slaves received rights of citizenship and equal protection to vote, but these provisions of the Constitution were violated. It was difficult for former slaves to participate in the postwar economy.

By 1877, the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) had triumphed in the South. The KKK named themselves after the Greek word kuklos meaning band. The KKK were former soldiers who were employed in every level of economy to frustrate former slaves from becoming employed. The KKK banded themselves to strategically frustrate former slaves. The goal of the KKK was to restore white supremacy in the Southern states. By 1920, at its peak, there were four million KKK members nationwide.

By 1867, African Americans participated in public life in the South. In the Southern states, blacks were elected to government and even to the US Congress. The KKK engaged in underground campaigns of violence against black and white Republican leaders and voters: to reverse the policies of radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy to the South.

This reign of terror was demonstrated in hooded white costumes, burned crosses, burned houses of intended victims, and the murder or lynching of the victims. In this manner, the KKK made certain the blacks voted to political office would fail to work successfully. The voters themselves were intimidated violently.

The Jim Crow laws began after 1865, the freeing of four million slaves. Jim Crow laws operated effectively in the Southern states to impose segregation of the races, taking away the voting right. The Democratic Party frustrated efforts to help the progress of freed slaves.

Jim Crow laws entrenched racial segregation between blacks and whites throughout the Southern states. The blacks had separate facilities. Blacks had their own schools. Blacks had their own seating area in theaters. There were segregated seating on trains and segregated seating in restaurants. Blacks had their own hospital wards. Blacks had their own prisons. Blacks had their own hotel rooms and segregated picnic facilities at parks. Blacks had their own residential areas. Blacks had their own phone booths. Cohabitation and intermarriage between blacks and whites was forbidden.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which legally ended discrimination and segregation institutionalized by Jim Crow laws.

In 1965, the Voting Rights Act ended efforts to keep minorities from voting.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968, ending discrimination in renting and selling homes, followed.

Chapter 2

African Americans and Crime, Violence, and Homicide

African Americans are the victims of one in three domestic homicides each year, four times that of whites.

African Americans are victims of violent crimes more than white counterparts.

African American youth are three times more likely to be victims of reported childhood abuse.

African American youth are three times more likely to be victims of robbery.

African American youth are five times more likely to be victims of homicide.

Homicide is the leading cause of death among African Americans. Homicide death rates are twelve times higher than the average rate of all people in other developed nations.

African Americans are more likely to be murdered by guns or knives.

African American Homicide-Victimization

The number one cause of death for African American males aged fifteen to thirty-four is murder (Juan Williams, Fox News, August 24, 2014). Ninety-three percent of murders are committed by the same race. The cause of death for men ages fifteen to thirty-four is murder by African Americans to fellow African Americans. Forty percent of African American males (fifteen to thirty-four) died compared to 3.8 percent whites who died. In 2011, African American males (fifteen to thirty-four) were ten times more likely to die of murder than whites of the same age-group.

Fifty-eight thousand Americans died from the Vietnam War, compared to 262,000 African American males who died from 1980–2013 killings by other African American males. (Jeffrey Goldberg. September 2015 issue. The Atlantic. A Matter of black Lives.")

Department of Justice: African Americans commit 560,600 violent crimes against whites, compared to 99,900 violent crimes of whites to African Americans. African Americans were attackers in 84.9 percent of violent crimes involving African Americans and whites. The African American male is twenty-seven times more likely to attack the white. African American-on-African American violence accounts for 40 percent of incidences while people of other races account for nearly 60 percent of the victims of African American violence. The percentage for sentencing homicides in the USA is, one in three murders go unsolved

Black males commit grossly disproportionate amount of crime. In 2013, white