Sacramento Juneteenth: Mayor Johnson and Attorney Walpin historic battle

Sacramento Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom

Historic Negro Hill, California ~ In 1849, Sacramento officially became a City of world fame, the embarcadero to the Gold Rush Mining District sparked by U.S. President Polk completing a notion of "manifest destiny" from his New York financiers. The gravemarkers from Negro Hill Burial Ground speak to today's pressing issues of systemic institutional racism.

Captain John Sutter, Sr. and his attorney Peter Burnett, later first California Governor, utilized Sutter's Fort as a slave marketplace and real estate marketplace to raise quick capital in 1849 to gain strong political favor for the Sacramento Valley.

Today, the capitol of the Great State of California continues to ignore the foul stench of the past and builds upon an unsustainable foundation.

1000's of enslaved human beings were forced to walk to California during the Gold Rush and 1000's died along the way. The California Constitutional Convention at Colton Hall in Monterey embraced white men only as citizens.

The City of Sacramento remains the destination of some of most racist, criminal and despicable human beings to call themselves Americans seeking quick money and false pride.

Free Black pioneers seeking greater freedom in Mexican California found the last Mexican Governor Pio Pico, a Black man, the last hope of a new day, the terms ending the U.S. Mexican war were never ratified and Black Land Loss resulted in some of the most pristine areas of the State of California.

In 1849, Governor Peter Burnett in his inaugural address outlined his major concern, to export all Black people out of the State of California, "they will forever be a scourge upon our society." He resigned just over a year in office and made his life work destroying Black civilization in the Sacramento Valley and throughout California.

Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. estate, weathy beyond measure, could not be retained by his family by legal efforts of the California Legislature and California Courts to eliminate all testimony by Black people against White people, especially land rights.

Imagine the richest man in California dead and his family unable to have a say in any legal proceeding to retain the legacy of the first Black Diplomat in U.S. History. He is the African Founding Father of California, yet unknown to most.

All Black towns in California were destroyed, Black land owners and businessmen were destroyed with the gun and/or the law of the land by design.

By 1859 over 1000 leading Black California residents moved to Victoria, British Columbia to escape the legal California laws enacted by the California State Legislature to destroy Black California, economic impact documented by the California Colored Convention Movement.

The City of Sacramento began the legal hate festival against Black, Mexican, Native American and Chinese after the peace treaty of Guadulope Hildalgo ending the U.S. Mexican War and Sacramento City records clearly show the impact.

The plum reward for the pioneer southern slave owners of Sacramento was given by the City of Sacramento becoming the permanent capitol of the Golden State of California.

Today, the first Black Mayor of our City of Sacramento is under vicious attack by the same belief system of 1849, same hate festival.

Imagine the neighbor of Governor Peter Burnett, Daniel Blue who prayed in his basement with Minister Fletcher to establish the first Black Church west of the Mississippi as a counter balance to abject racism still having to battle 150 years later.

Mayor Kevin Johnson, may take refuge in prayer at St. Andrew AME church and recall the prayers of the "unknown niggers" buried in Negro Hills Burial Ground, Mormon Island Cemetery. The Methodist Church in Historic Negro Hills of 1849 was filled with free and enslaved Black Pioneers from Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney spoke to the issues of today, "slave or free the Black man has no rights the White man is bound to respect." His legal Dred Scott notion is where former IG Walpin may gain his stregnth to stand his ground in firm resolve.

Former Inspector General, Attorney Walpin follows a long line of "New York Volunteers" whom were given the task to conquer or colonize California beginning in 1846 when they were given an Bible and a gun to implement a vision of "white supremacy."

If the New York financial markets and University of New York were given equal consideration, then I am sure the historic Tammany Hall and Slave markets of Wall Street will find fertile soil for an former Inspector General investigation to find trillions of dollars of government corruption.

150 years from today, 2159 A.D., a notion of "we hold these truths to be self evident... that all men are created equal..." will find the systemic institutional racism purged from our land as we "form the more perfect union" that our American Found Father's envisioned.

If the flag ship of the McClatchy News papers, Sacramento Bee, reprints the slave auction sales in the historic Sacramento Valley, then we can all see the need for a new day.