Onward to 500 Plus!
We started with a goal of 25 signatures. As a result of caring support coming from socially conscious individuals scattered across almost every corner of the nation, our U.S. Civil Rights Complaint has reached over 350 signatures and moving fast forward toward 500!
With that said, thousands may sign ultimately. However, now that the people are speaking, let’s try to get as close as we can to 500 signatures before the end of the month. We only need 150 signatures by March 31 to achieve this righteous and ambitious new goal!
The more signatures, the more we are able to show that we are UNITED in LOVE for JUSTICE as we stand against wrongdoing that violates our civil rights and subsequently impedes our need for justice, peace, and unrestricted Black progress in this century.
When our overall growth and “advancement” are suppressed by so-called “Black leadership” that uses his oppressor’s playbook and engages in its own form of self-hateful discrimination, personality profiling, and double standards, we retrogress just the same. Similarly, when we do nothing as the guns of Black self-hatred fire endlessly toward the children of our Black community, we die violently and prematurely just the same.
There is no way possible the White oppressor could hold down the Black masses for over 400 years without using certain “validated” Blacks who claim to represent the Black masses, to do much of the oppressor’s dirty work. We must therefore stand up for progress regardless of the colorful rhetorical artistry, hands or faces used to stop us in our tracks.
Our petition simply asks that we maintain the constitutional and moral principles of “fair and impartial due process,” regardless of whether we find our civil rights being denied by those who claim to be our “civil rights” friends or foes. We seek no preferential treatment. We seek no part of a VIP clique. We only seek fairness across the board as a means of assuring, nothing and no one will hold us down.
We only expect our NAACP leadership to follow the integrity of its own NAACP Constitution and our U.S. Constitution when punishing and suspending its members. What could be wrong with such a moral demand when it is repetitiously and clearly called for as we are witnessing suspensions from state to state that did not follow NAACP bylaws and in turn violated constitutional and fair due process. We have an expanding avalanche of real-life examples from across the nation to support our complaint.
Anyone who truly loves justice should appreciate and applaud such collective efforts whether you belong to the NAACP or not. An indiscriminate demand for Justice never hurts anyone, except the unjust. Further, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s verbal declaration that “A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” is a warning that remains too true.
We only seek internally from ourselves what we demand externally from our oppressors.
We will no longer be deceived by position-holders, titles, or certain Black people who discriminate against their own race. We are no longer fooled by good speeches that do not practice what it preaches.
It has become our pressing duty to hold an indiscriminate mirror to the face of the Black community. This comes to uphold the standards of constitutionality consistently in order to leave no dreams behind.
We therefore demand fair treatment from everyone (Black or White) who holds a position of leadership where less powerful Black masses exist. This is what JUSTICE and DEMOCRACY look like. Anything less is what INJUSTICE’S HYPOCRISY looks like.
Meanwhile, let’s keep the movement “moving” as I congratulate and thank you for using your voice to ensure that we stop the internal bleeding that has allowed the Black body of progress to die for several decades. We see ourselves as “first responders” to breathe the life of LOVE back into the troubled hearts of a people who have been long denied the medications of justice.
Please assist us in keeping this heartfelt petition shared as the signatures will continue growing as good fruit to feed the soul of today’s civil rights movement.
“We’ve come this far by FAITH,” and we will “KEEP THE FAITH!”
Always in pursuit of justice,
Rev. Curtis E. Gatewood
Link to U.S. Civil Rights Complaint below:
https://www.change.org/STOP-Wrongful-NAACP-Suspensions
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