It’s Time To End Centuries Of Injustice
By Rev. Torli H. Krua-TEL-+1857-249-9983
Founder, Universal Human Rights International & Free Liberia Movement
As America commemorates 250 years since the first shots of the Revolution were fired in Lexington and Concord, descendants of American slaves and free Black citizens who fought for freedom and later experienced ethnic cleansing-forcibly exiled to Liberia are still denied their rightful place in the country they helped build.
Liberia was created in 1821 by slave masters, led by President James Monroe, under a racist U.S. policy and military authority — funded by taxes from Americans, including Blacks. It was not an accident. It was part of a plan to expel free Black American citizens from the U.S.,in order to make room for European Immigrants, and perpetuate slavery. This first global Apartheid movement began with the unmitigated, and unconstitutional racist Naturalization Act of 1790 that restricted U.S. citizenship only to “white persons.” The descendants of U.S. citizens forced into exile are still paying the price today while America welcomes citizens from countries worldwide.
For 235 years this racially divisive seed by white American slave masters germinated and became global inspiration for Nazi Germany which killed its own citizens through racial cruelty and Apartheid South Africa. With Germans and South Africans united, America faces an existential risk of a catastrophic collapse from the fruits of a seed planted 235 years ago: Alas, “United we stand. Divided we fall.” Uniting this deeply divided “United” States begins not in Gaza or Ukraine but at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and West Point, Monrovia, Liberia!
In 2025, Liberians applying for U.S. visas are rejected at rates higher than Iranians and Afghans. Dual U.S.-Liberian citizens dominate Liberia’s government while poor Liberians — the ones actually living there — are shut out by prohibitively expensive electoral fees: $2,500 to run for President, $100,000 insurance bonds, and minimum bank balances of $10,000. All this in a country funded by American taxpayers.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., Liberians have been excluded from immigration reprieves extended to other Liberians; The Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act. Chinese students, Central Americans, and Cubans were granted green cards just for being on U.S. soil when laws passed. Liberians, even those here for decades, were excluded unless they met narrow, arbitrary deadlines.
Our lawsuit — Krua et al. v. Mayorkas et al. — aims to expose and end this injustice. We argue that Liberians are not foreigners. We are Americans — stripped of citizenship, exiled, and colonized.
This isn’t just a legal fight. It’s a moral and historical reckoning.
We’re calling on President Trump to take bold action:
- End U.S. colonization of Liberians.
- Ban dual U.S. citizens from monopolizing Liberia’s elections.
- Visit West Point, Monrovia, and Pine Ridge, South Dakota to apologize for the unfinished business of American colonization.
Liberians deserve more than apologies. We demand justice, citizenship, and full inclusion in the country we never truly left.