Who Did It To You? Roundtable Discussion with Dr James Jones

In every stage of our Oppression We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Government whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

We have been sounding the alarms to our People. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our enslavement and settlement here. We have appealed to their common sense and logic, unfortunately our warnings have seem to fallen on deaf ears therefore it has created an inevitably interruption of our common bonds as black People. The Black Preachers too have been deaf to the voice of justice and the Cry of Black First and the rule of No Cooning allowed. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which pronounce our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of them Guilty, and Enemies in War!

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
                                                   America Say:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.