World Maritime Day ~ California Trade with Africa and the African Diaspora

San Francisco, CA ~ Not long ago the United Nations was created in our California sunshine as a global instrument to facilitate a more peaceful and productive world.

Ethiopian H.I.M. Haile Sellasie I concluded his U.N. in 1963 remarks as such,

“The problems which confront us today are, equally, unprecedented. They have no counterparts in human experience. Men search the pages of history for solutions, for precedents, but there are none. This, then, is the ultimate challenge. Where are we to look for our survival, for the answers to the questions which have never before been posed? We must look, first, to Almighty God, who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We must put our faith in Him, that He will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which He created in His image. And we must look into ourselves, into the depth of our souls. We must become something we have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”

We join the spirit of the United Nations, International Maritime Organization and celebrate World Maritime Day throughout Northern California. We share a perspective that the vast majority of global trade and commerce takes place on the open seas transporting fuel, food, fiber, fuel, forestry, fishery and all sorts of tangible new commodities, worldwide.

The broader maritime industry includes support industries such as finance, insurance, trucking, and air transport, employing millions of people globally. Job creation and sustained community development should support the maritime industry.

U.S. President Barack Obama, Saturday, September 20, evening speech at the 40th Congressional Black Caucus Gala Dinner, spoke of many things especially keeping America on the right track coming out of a U.S. recession being felt globally, it is the plan, not the man or woman.

Shirley Sherrod and Rev. Sherrod regal quiet and dignified strength of character continues to guide a long and difficult conversation toward a restoration of Black Agriculture in America in the face of mighty odds, what an example of faith.

A new generation of Black Farmers and Ranchers will build upon the past and develop capacity and infrastructure to facilitate healthy local food systems and facilitate access to global markets.

$1,000,000,000.00 in agriculture sales represents over 9,000 pensionable jobs in both Urban and Rural America.

U.S. Senate Republicans, lead my former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Senator Johanns and Senate Ag Committe Ranking Member Senator Chambliss continue to ignore the possibilities of job growth and economic development. Together we can expand U.S. Agriculture jobs throughout America, especially in Farm County.

Where is the business profit or taxable income embracing a false sense of security denying Black Agriculture equal opportunity. Pigford claimants represent a generation who clearly experienced systemic institutional racism by America's Last Plantation, without question of any honest human being.

Settle Pigford and Let's Move, competing in the Africa Union, Latin America, Caribbean and beyond to restore America's heartland. Together, we can compete globally or choose to export the stench of historic racism.

Why continue to focus on the ongoing underlining conversation of ills of last century, the Pigford vs. Vilsack class action lawsuit, prolonging decades of systemic institutional disparaging treatment through U.S. Agriculture Policy that mandates our United States Department of Agriculture to lose U.S. job creation opportunities.

President Obama plans to double U.S. exports in 5 years can only happen in markets where a plethora of Black consumers purchases U.S. products; throughout Latin America, Brazil, India, and the African Union.

A world view that the destruction of U.S. Black Agriculture production, once nearly 15% of the U.S. industry today U.S. Black Agriculture production is close to 1% of the U.S. industry, should not be the price of embracing U.S. Agriculture commodities and utilizing USDA programs and polices.

World Maritime Day 2010 we renew the journey to expose global markets to our port communities and showcase our historic maritime skills, talents and abilities essential to Black Agriculture.

If the first U.S. Diplomat of African ancestry could excel during the “Age of Sail” then today a new generation of global trade and commerce ambassadors can follow the plan toward economic development highlighting the "Golden Legacy of the Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr."

It is the plan, not the man.

California Agriculture Trade in African and the African Diaspora can utilize our leading intermodal transportation systems to expand growth and opportunity to places in need of economic development.

Join our California World Maritime Day Celebrations

Thursday, September 23, 2010

San Francisco Palace Hotel
Garden Court
Noon Luncheon

Oakland Waterfront Hotel
Jack London Square
Port of Oakland, CA
Evening Reception

Friday, September 24, 2010

California State Capitol
Room 125
Sacramento, CA

World Maritime Day Celebration
California Trade in African and the African Diaspora

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