Give niggaz dual citizenship ---
Byker
citizenship can be revoked while they're abroad and they won't EVER be able
to come back...
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Africans mull citizenship for slave kin
By DULUE MBACHU
Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 20, 6:20 PM ET
ABUJA, Nigeria - African and black American leaders meeting this week
debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the
continent - securing African citizenship for American descendants of
Africans taken away as slaves.
The idea came out of a summit bringing African governments and the U.S.
private sector together in search of partnerships to end Africa's poverty.
Presidents from 12 African countries attended the four-day conference, along
with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and World Bank President Paul
Wolfowitz.
"Just as the people of different races in America have a place they call
home, I believe we should have a place we call our ancestral home," said
Hope Masters, daughter of the U.S. civil rights campaigner for whom the Leon
Sullivan Summit is named.
Anthony Archer, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based lawyer, is heading a committee
to consider how citizenship could be awarded.
"Dual citizenship will start the process of mutual and spiritual
reconciliation of differences between the two continents that came as a
result of slavery," he said. "If we can feel like we really belong, we'll
feel more joyful about participating."
Key challenges include determining the ancestral homelands of black
Americans, Masters said. The upheaval of the slave trade left many without
knowledge of their place of origin.
One possibility is granting continent-wide citizenship to slave descendants
through the African Union, Archer said. Another is to work for citizenship
of blocs of countries through regional organizations. It was unclear what
rights would be granted under those scenarios.
A third proposal would have countries grant citizenship independently to
those who seek it.
Masters said the proposal will be further developed before the next summit
in 2008. She said African leaders support the concept, noting that Nigerian
President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged black Americans "to see Africa as your
home."
Among the Americans attending the Sullivan meeting in Abuja were executives
from companies including Chevron Corp., Coca-Cola Co., General Motors Corp.,
and DaimlerChrysler AG.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_re_af/africa_citizenship_for_slavery
Panzerfaust
>--- so when they decide to pay a visit to Africoonia, their American
>citizenship can be revoked while they're abroad and they won't EVER be able
>to come back...
I would gladly pay triple taxes for the next ten years if all of them
would just go the fuck back. Reparations and an airline ticket would
be a small price to pay.
--
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf
and dumb. Seeing visions over yonder of the war I know
must come. In the corner-not a vision-but a sign of
coming days, stands a box of ammunition, and a rifle
in green baize. And in this, the living present, let
the word go through the land. Every tradesman, clerk
and peasant, should have these two things at hand. No,
no ranting song is needed, and no meeting, flag or
fuss-In the future, still unheeded, shall the Spirit
come to us. Without feathers, drum or riot, on the
day that is to be. We shall march down very quiet,
to our stations by the sea. While the bitter parties
stifle every voice that warns of war. Every man should
have a rifle. And cartridges in store. (Henry Lawson)
Head Bustin' Hank
Byker wrote:
> --- so when they decide to pay a visit to Africoonia, their American
> citizenship can be revoked while they're abroad and they won't EVER be able
> to come back...
While it was once possible to revoke a person's citizenship because of
remaining in a foreign country for an extended period, that's no longer
possible. Citizenship can be revoked for crimes such as treason and
advocating the overthrow of the US government, but not for merely
living abroad.
> ABUJA, Nigeria - African and black American leaders meeting this week
> debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the
> continent - securing African citizenship for American descendants of
> Africans taken away as slaves.
This idea might attract entrepreneurial types who would succeed
anywhere, but
people who have been on welfare for generations would be worse off in
Africa than they are in the projects.
African countries who want investment capital wouldn't want African
Americans with no money.
> Key challenges include determining the ancestral homelands of black
> Americans, Masters said. The upheaval of the slave trade left many without
> knowledge of their place of origin.
People's original ancestral homelands could be determined by DNA
testing, but it really wouldn't matter where an African American
entrepreneur wanted to live, money is welcome anywhere.
Byker
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> Byker wrote:
>> --- so when they decide to pay a visit to Africoonia, their American
>> citizenship can be revoked while they're abroad and they won't EVER be
>> able
>> to come back...
>
> While it was once possible to revoke a person's citizenship because of
> remaining in a foreign country for an extended period, that's no longer
> possible. Citizenship can be revoked for crimes such as treason
The definition of which is wide open to interpretation.
> and advocating the overthrow of the US government
Which is essentially what the so-called "black leadership" wants...