PART I

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Could African-Americans self govern if they had to? If tomorrow a directive were released from the White House that mandated an ultimate segregation and relocation of all the nation's African-American persons to a specific portion of the country where they would have to provide their own defense, treasury, economy and infrastructure would they be able to perform? Would such a black state emerge as an independent superpower like the Black Wall Street of old, Buckhead, Baldwin Hills or would it succumb to the plight of said areas like the Southside of Chicago, Detroit or Watts? Though it does sound like a ridiculous hypothetical scenario of a black separative state and very unlikely, this could however be a reality but with a few exceptions.

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When discussing the possibility of a scenario like the one just mentioned, what often comes up in the conversation is LIBERIA, we're all familiar with the partial African-American start up nation that shipped freed slaves back to the West Coast of Africa in the 1800's. The black candidates selected by the American Colonization Society (A Quaker organization that funded the project) for the voyage, eventually found themselves battling the natives of the land and eventually subjugating them in the like manner they themselves had been victimized as Negroes in America. After establishing a government and a few colonies named after American states such as Mississippi, Maryland and Kentucky, the Afro-American led republic moved into the 20th century with a lot of promise. Despite their elitist ideals, instituted caste system and nepotism to restrict the indigenous African peoples from having any type of positions of authority, the Republic itself had notable highs as they welcomed foreign business, made international allies  and had access to foreign capital which would in turn allow them to stimulate their economy and focus on producing natural resources to keep the nation competitive. The lows however seemed to be the most consistent as the Republic suffered a currency collapse and became prisoner to high interest loans from outside governments. The nation would eventually see their most profitable relationships sour due to their stance during World War I followed by being an an ally for hire during WWII and the Cold War just to keep the nation funded. In 1980 Liberia itself became rogue against its own government which led to their then President William Tolbert publicly executing protestors challenging the government's raise in the cost of goods, this followed by response rioting and a coup d'etat that in the end got William Tolbert and anyone aligned with him killed. For the first time in 133 years the indigenous inhabitants of Liberia would seize authority over the land, however in 1989 Charles Taylor a politician with American lineage would go on a quest for power. During Taylor's watch the nation would suffer 3 wars, two civil and one in Sierra Leone. Taylor himself would subsequently be hailed as a war criminal for his acts of carnage during the Sierra Leone War, disappear to escape being convicted by an international court, get captured and sentenced to 50 years in prison. Liberia as of today is amongst one of the poorest African nations and nations internationally with  an estimated 3 billion dollar GDP hardly sustainable considering the current competitive world condition.

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BLACK WALL STREET is primarily mentioned in reference to the Greenwood District and the Tulsa race riots and massacre of 1921. Greenwood was a black self-sustained community that because of Jim Crow (laws that forbade blacks from engaging in common society) was inspired to create their own segregated economy. During the Black Wall Street era, this district of Tulsa managed to establish their own transportation systems, entertainment hubs, nightlife, commodities and resources, institute their own municipal representatives as well as have a considerable presence in the policing. On its way to being a national leader in commerce, the town was said to be "oil rich" in a city morally broke. White mobs of Tulsa eventually sacked and burned the community while attempting to lynch a black man they claimed assaulted a white woman in an elevator. Rosewood, another segregated black town in Florida met a similar fate around about the same time when white mobs also destroyed their community claiming a black man had assaulted a white woman as well. Today, within the United States there are many prominent majority black neighborhoods thriving but they are hardly as independent or self sustaining as the segregated towns to make headlines more than 100 years ago, on the other end of the spectrum, many U.S black towns and or neighborhoods are participants of some of the nation's most egregious crime and degeneracy statistics. So could an all Black-American autonomous state completely independent of American benefits, supervision and interference launch and sustain? One group seems to think its possible but it can't be done on American soil they say, this group is fully aware of the conditions facing the black experience in America and to fix it complete autonomy is paramount. "We have to have complete authority and latitude to handle our people and correct the decadence Western society has allowed to develop within the black community: fatherless homes, drug infestation, gang violence, senseless murder, whoring of our women with no shame, disrespect of the elders, perverted agendas fed to our children on a regular basis, these are the things we are restricted from correcting here in America."

I have had the pleasure of discussing what the group calls SAC1-1a an Agenda 26 push to found a Diaspora State for Black Americans and their families on the continent of Africa by 2026, key amongst the elements for constructing the state I found most intriguing was the decisive plan for preventing another Liberia-type scenario and unlike their predecessors, their plan to incorporate continental Africans into the authority and functional structure of the governing system.