In 1763 and through the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the Seven Years war between England and France ended. This war is also called the French-Indian war which is very misleading. The latter title would give the impression that the French people were fighting the Native American people but in fact they were allies against the English.

So in 1763 France gives up the fight for the Native American lands WITH the Native American, and cedes Canada to England, which is strange in that the French were obviously NOT Native American so obviously were NOT really in the position to give away any of the lands.

But what follows is a series of acts which are designed with the original plan in mind. First the Proclamation of 1763 by the King of England forbids white settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1764 comes the sugar act and the Currency act which prevents the colonies from the issuance of its own money. Then in ’65 the King follows with the stamp act and the Quartering act which required colonies to furnish British troops with housing and certain provisions.

You see, the shit had hit the fan. The natives were getting restless and I don’t mean the indigenous people of the continent. The colonists who were of a grouping from society of the hardest, most desperate, renegades from the lowest rung of English life had made a deal but had welched and now it was pay back time. The King began to make it so hard on the settlers to get back what he had invested that in 1776, the declaration of independence was ratified by the thirteen original colonies.

What do you think America will do if the people of Iraq don’t abide by American will and give up the gas? Why they would simply come King George revisited.

The reason that I am writing this, however is to speak to the truth about what is supposed to be today’s celebrating and why I AM NOT, repeat NOT CELEBRATING. You see the so-called Americans were not independent on July 4,1776, this was just the date that they declared their independence from England through the mutual agreement of the leadership of the thirteen original colonies. There was a whole lot of war and fighting and killing which ensued because of this and it was all of the killing and nastiness that goes along with war that culminated in September of 1763.

So today, July 4, 1776 is not the day of independence from England for the colonialists. That is a lie. But that is not the reason that I AM NOT, repeat NOT CELEBRATING independence day today. Not just because of the damned lie that the declaration of independence became valid on July 4, 1776. The reason is that the declaration itself is a damned lie, another treaty by a group of well known thugs and renegades who never KEPT a treaty since the inception of their existence and who had the nerve to say the following:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This they said and signed when virtually every single one of the signers OWNED SLAVES! In fact slavery the Emancipation Proclamation was no issued until 1863, one hundred years AFTER the Seven Years war on which the United States of America was started. This proclamation came only after the devastation of yet another war, the American Civil War. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom. The so-called Emancipation Proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Despite its expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Furthermore, according to documents obtainable from the National Archives & Records Administration, “the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave”.

To the contrary, the vestiges of slavery became refined as the “Jim Crow” laws. The Jim Crow Laws “were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965. They mandated "separate but equal” status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white Americans. Although it was legally required that the facilities provided should be equal, they were not. The Jim Crow period or the Jim Crow era refers to the time during which this practice occurred. The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for whites and blacks. These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800-66 Black Codes, which had restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans”.

Now, although I have not cited any references for what I’ve just mentioned about Jim Crow, one thing that is a matter of public record is EVERY TREATY THAT THIS GOVERNMENT HAS MADE AND THEY HAVE BROKEN EVERYONE OF THEM. Furthermore, it is a matter of public record that State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, I was born in 1955. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights. Yet I saw and exper-ienced with MY OWN EYES, white only – black only bathrooms at the OUACHITA PARISH, LOUISIANA COURTHOUSE in 1967.

Not to mention the fact that the Civil and Voting Rights Act just came up for ratification AGAIN this year. That’s right 2007. These “rights” were not given permanently and with the record that these people have in regard to their treaties makes it more than a foregone conclusion that, if it fits their interests, nigguhs will be illegal again. So I am NOT repeat NOT CELEBRATING today. In fact, to the contrary, if you hear any loud popping coming from the vicinity of my dwelling, you can best believe that what we are doing is practicing for the days to come.

Written Craig 17X Erving (Zahieb Mwongozi). Featured on myspace.com/thewonkanese all day is E Pluribus Unum as recorded and performed by me and written by “The Last Poets”. Check it out.