A Call For Restoration Of American Citizenship To All Liberians
PHOTO: The deed Signed by US Navy Captain Robert Stockton (Left) and Ten African Americans Born Free But Sought Asylum in Liberia (Right), research from US says
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA-As two centuries of American Colonization expires at midnight on December 31, 2022, a retired Massachusetts lawmaker has reportedly endorsed a petition from citizens of Liberia addressed to the United States Congress and the Biden Administration calling for mitigation of American Colonization, restoration of American citizenship to all Liberians.
Liberians and Americans need to live together without discrimination
According to Universal Human Rights International (UHRI) headed by prominent rights activists based in the USA, Rev. Torli Krua, this include descendants of enslaved and free Blacks banished from the United States to Liberia from 1822 until 1965 because of the color of their skin.
Honorable Ben Swan of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA has called for a congressional inquiry into 200 years of ongoing harm of officially sanctioned racism in Liberia by American Colonization executed under the Flag of the United, using the brute force of the US Military and funded by American taxes.
Liberation Of Liberian Refugees In Death Traps Of American Winter storms
Meanwhile, as deadly winter storms sweep across America, Hon. Swan is calling on President Biden to immediately issue a humanitarian Executive Order granting work permits to all Liberians in the United States and for Congress to immediately institute a humane amendment to the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act and include all Liberian refugees excluded from the “Fairness Act” who are languishing across America without work permits since the Obama Administration.
“It’s unconscionable to treat human beings the way the United States treats Liberians in Africa and right here in the United States”. Honorable Swan Said.
The American Declaration of Independence was signed between July 4, and 1776-August 2, 1776, ( “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal...”) But on March 26, 1790, the US Congress, dominated by slaveholders and white supremacists passed the first Nationality Law excluding people of color from US citizenship: “only white persons…” European immigrants were allowed to be US citizens. And on March 3, 1819, the US Congress passed a law that made it easy to deport Americans, and, thus effectively creating the colony of Liberia, under the American Flag, with the force of the US Navy and funded by appropriations of $100,000.00. The Opinion of the US Attorney General Hon. William Wirt, the money could not be used to buy land for a settlement of Americans, transportation of free Blacks from the USA to Africa, and for paying for construction and tools, etc didn’t matter to the slaveholders heading the three branches of the US Government.
“Stockton put a pistol to the head of the King and forced him to sell the land to the Americans” (Akingbade 1976, 19; Kieh 1992, 26; Beyan 1991, 66; Boone 1970, 17; Harris 1985, 14; Van Sickle 2011, 110).
“Stockton put a pistol to the head of the King and forced him to sell the land to the Americans” (Akingbade 1976, 19; Kieh 1992, 26; Beyan 1991, 66; Boone 1970, 17; Harris 1985, 14; Van Sickle 2011, 110).
The deed Signed by US Navy Captain Robert Stockton
“The formal possession of Cape Mesurado took place on 25 April 1822, when Ayres, a white American hoisted the American flag in the presence of the local kings and the indigenous people. Then, Ayres was appointed as the first US Government agent on 12 May 1822. He employed the black settlers as laborers and began constructing the infrastructure of the American colony “(Huberich 1947, 213)
In a related development, a Representative from the Tappita District Development Association (TADDA), Tappita, Nimba County, Liberia, where Hon. Swan is an Honorary Paramount Chief, Mr. Gerald Koinyeneh Jr. arrived from Liberia to witness the endorsement of the Petition in Springfield, Massachusetts.
“The formal possession of Cape Mesurado took place on 25 April 1822, when Ayres, a white American hoisted the American flag in the presence of the local kings and the indigenous people. Then, Ayres was appointed as the first US Government agent on 12 May 1822. He employed the black settlers as laborers and began constructing the infrastructure of the American colony “(Huberich 1947, 213)
In a related development, a Representative from the Tappita District Development Association (TADDA), Tappita, Nimba County, Liberia, where Hon. Swan is an Honorary Paramount Chief, Mr. Gerald Koinyeneh Jr. arrived from Liberia to witness the endorsement of the Petition in Springfield, Massachusetts.