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Anonymous
Stop the White Corporate Mafia Takeover of A Black Cultural Center
Mis-education, institutionalized racism, economic underdevelopment, redlining, drugs, racial profiling, police terrorism, and the prevention and disruption of strong Black organizations and institutions are all part of the strategy to deny Africans in America freedom, justice and equality and the their human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Efforts to establish an African American Heritage Museum & Culture Center in Seattle began in 1969 and came to the forefront in 1981 when Omari Tahir-Garrett and Isaiah Edwards led a community based coalition in opposing the construction of a police precinct in the heart of Seattle's historically black Central District, proposing a positive cultural institution instead. After successfully blocking the construction of the police precinct, the community turned it's attention to the recently closed Colman school as the future home of the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center. When the mayor began to go back on his commitment to developing the museum, a dedicated few took action!.
On the night of Nov. 23, 1985, the longest recorded act of civil disobedience in U.S. history began when Omari Tahir, Earl Debnam and a small group of concerned community members including Charlie James, Michael Greenwood and others, occupied the abandoned Colman Elementary School, demanding that the building be developed into the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center to save our youth!.
Since that time Seattle's white corporate mafia has orchestrated an immoral and illegal campaign to sabotage, undermine and prevent the development of a community controlled institution and further the gentrification of the Central District using hired black faces such as Norm Rice, James Kelly and former FBI agent Carver Gayton to do their dirty work.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/calendar_event.php?eid=20080225231333755
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