National Ag Day ~ Black Agenda Conference

Sacramento, CA ~ The great sage Gill Scott-Heron, is back on the scene. The unofficial theme song for the Black Agenda 2010, Me And The Devil, contains the essential message for Black America to consider in the spirit of Sankofa, on National Ag Day 2010.

Admiral John Hawkins of England was a pioneer of the Trans~Atlantic Slave Trade. His father was a close confidant of Henry VII of England and through a lucrative partnership with Queen Elizabeth I he sailed the 700-ton ship, Jesus of Lubeck, to facilitate acquisition and enslavement of African labor to establish the global agricultural commodity market.

The initial commodity openly traded on the futures market was enslaved human beings, mostly of African ancestry.

A different type of census and different type of industrial agriculture in the English colonies of the America's began the notion of artificial scarcity and capitalism.

230 plus years of structural systemic institutional racism will not be completely turned around quickly without pubic policy conversations.

A belief that "When you make Black America better you make all America better" is in fact a concept Gill Scott-Heron shares from his vast life experiences.

March 20 is National Ag Day, Chicago is an excellent choice location.

Collectively we should recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America join together to recognize the contributions of agriculture.

Black Agriculture in the 21st Century, must become Black Agenda Item #1 if any serious notion of economic stability is considered.

Pigford II, an economic remedy, seeks Senate appropriation of 1.25 billion dollars to Black Agriculture producers for past discrimination from "America's Last Plantation," the United States Department of Agriculture, before March 31 or the agreement may change again.

If Tavis Smiley moderates a single agenda notion on National Ag Day this Saturday where Dr. Juliane Malveaux, Dr. Cornel West; Dr. Michael Eric Dyson; Jesse Jackson, Sr., Louis Farrakhan; Angela Glover Blackwell, Dorothy Tillman, Tom Burrell, Dr. Ron Walters and others assembled would collectively support a positive resolution of Pigford II, then job creation, career development and sustainable communities can become a common theme throughout America.

We count, then could consider the historic productive utility of an enslaved human being via ongoing "seperate and unequal public policy" mandated through "America's Last Plantation."

While in Chicago, please visit the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade and inquire about a Black Agenda supporting financial reform and derivative regulations that provide transparency, equity and equal opportunity for "the original stock" openly traded throughout global agricultural commodity markets.

Consider for a moment the Haitian Black Farmer and Agriculturalists named Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, founder of the City of Chicago, who married into the native Potawatomi tribe who called him "Black Chief."

Today, a Black Farmer and Agriculturalists son of Lake Nyanza, Kenya by way of Hawaii, married into another native Chicago tribe and we call him "Black Commander in Chief."

National Ag Day 2010 will bring forth operational unity among the native tribes of Black America, especially if you say grace over a meal provided by the regional Black Farmers in Chicago.