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DESCRIPTION:Request for Support for Negro Hill Burial Ground Project by the Sacramento 
 Area Council of Governments\n9:00 a.m., Thursday, April 21, 2011\nSACOG 
 Board Room\n1415 L Street, Suite 300\nSacramento, CA 95814\n\n\nSacramento 
 Area Council of Governments ~ El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento County 
 leadership role correcting 36 grave markers that read “Unknown Nigger” 
 \nby Michael Harris, Negro Hill Burial Ground Project \n\nHonorable Chair 
 Susan Peters, SACOG Representatives and SACOG Staff\n\nIt is good to recall 
 that the original inhabitants of the Sacramento Valley the Maidu and Miwok 
 nations maintained balanced development and environmental harmony for over 
 10,000 years in one of the most fertile agricultural regions on the planet. 
 \n\nMany of the first permanent settlements in the Gold Mining District of 
 the Sacramento River Basin were early Black Pioneers who naturally had a 
 common bond with the indigenous native population as Black Agriculturalists 
 the journey west was a family affair and permanent.\n  \nIn 1848, a 
 community of early Black Pioneers established a community called Negro 
 Hill, California.  Negro, is a Spanish word for black, the official 
 language in Alta California and as part of the Mexican Terrority under U.S. 
 Martial Law, slavery was illegal.\n  \nBuilding upon this weekend’s 
 celebration of Emancipation Day, Washington, D.C. we continue to request 
 dignity, honor and respect for the early pioneers who today are known as 
 “Unknown Niggers.”\n\nSacramento Council of Area Government business 
 and civic leaders annually travel to our Nation’s capital to maintain and 
 establish essential relationships with U.S. Government officials in the 
 District of Columbia.  \n\nOften the "Cap to Cap" dialogue centers upon a 
 notion of a “fair share” and rarely considers any notion of ‘fair 
 share’ based upon ongoing impacts from “previous condition of 
 servitude” and “international human rights violations” that challenge 
 regional county services. \n\nBlack Sacramento has never received a fair 
 share in the Sacramento Valley since the inception of the State of 
 California.\n\nIn fact, the first Governor Peter Burnett proposed and acted 
 upon his belief that people of African descent should be exported out of 
 the State of California… just as a reminder the early foundation to the 
 continuing inhumane, degenerative values and beliefs exhibited upon 36 
 gravemarkers representing our early Black California Pioneers, celebrated 
 by a small but powerful group who mirror aspects of "apartheid in 
 action."\n \nFew can imagine a historic ‘racial epithet” on any other 
 ethnic cultures grave since 1954.\n\nToday, a NBA basketball player is 
 fined one hundred thousand dollars for shouting a word, yet for 57 years a 
 word stamped upon 36 grave markers, is ignored… while a feverish pitch is 
 witnessed to retain regional entertainment of people of African descent 
 demonstrating elevated competency in athletic sport. \n\nWhen California 
 became the 31st State of the Union, enslaved people of African descent in 
 the Nation’s Capitol were granted freedom from physical bondage, and 
 fromer slave owners given compensation for lost productive utility yet 
 residents of Washington D.C. still do not have a full measure of U.S. 
 citizenship.  \n\nA complete lack of dignity, respect and honor for the 
 grave markers representing the early Black Pioneers from the Eastern United 
 States who arrived in late 1848 Mexican California to establish the region 
 called Negro Hill, California is astonishing to the international community 
 to understand.  \n\n2011 is the United Nations International Year for 
 People of African Descent, SACOG, the flagship of a regional cooperation, 
 has an opportunity to take a leadership role and provide honest regional 
 assessment to acknowledge solutions to 160 years of institutional racism, 
 bigotry and systemic oppression in the Sacramento region.  \n\nIn 1848, 
 above the confluence of the North and South fork of the American River, 
 then in Placer County the region of Negro Hill was the business and 
 commerce hub of the Gold Mining District, utilizing the best quality water 
 in America by most accounts, roads, schools, busineses, bridges, etc. all 
 hidden by fear, ignorance and superstition.  \n\nThroughout the transition 
 to California statehood until fierce battles of our U.S. Civil War (1848 
 – 1863), when county lines moved Negro Hill peninsula region into El 
 Dorado County, the town thrived and was an example of a growing early 
 multi-ethnic, multi-cultural community of high achievement.\n\nIt is 
 challenging to comprehend how SACOG can come together to advocate and 
 benefit from U.S. Government resources to retrofit and upgrade Folsom Dam 
 with nearly one billion dollars of tax payer allocation yet, continue to 
 ignore requests to come together to speaking out against egregious civil 
 and human rights violations created by the original construction of Folsom 
 Dam. \n\nThe Negro Hill Burial Ground Project is firmly resolved to remove 
 the word “Nigger” from the graver markers representing the early Negro 
 Hill community, restore California Historical Landmark #570 and create a 
 Negro Hill Memorial Monument that is deserving of recognition by the U.S. 
 National Registry of Historic Places.   \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/17/18677372.php
SUMMARY:SACOG Leadership role in correcting 36 gravemarkers that read "Unknown Nigger"
LOCATION:SACOG Board Room\n1415 L Street, Suite 300\nSacramento, CA 95814
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/17/18677372.php
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