The Return Passage
This letter discuss and explains our obligation and responsibility to our Ancestors by returning them to the land from which they came.
The Return Passage Rite is a gesture that will be used to symbolically represent the returning of our People back to their homeland of Africa.
Today we can only come to a reasonable and rational conclusion that our ancestors where taken by force from the land in which they lived for the sole purpose of forced servitude and destruction.
There is a shared responsibility for this human suffering with malicious intentions, but who shares the responsibility? This gesture will also be used to address that question and also hold these individuals accountable for they’re immoral actions.
We can assume the reason why this tragedy occurred was for wealth and necessity which ultimately ended in the death and destruction of a people, this is beyond justification or comprehension in either case.
Taking anyone against there will given freely(being mislead to gain consent), by force or thru manipulation is wrong, both morally and ethically. Both men and women boys and girls where transported on ships of horror, chained together, naked, urinating and defecating on each other. Young girls being raped by ship crewmen, these voyage could take as much as three months. Many Mother`s were forced to make a horrendous decision, throw there children from the ships because they did not want them to be subjected to the carnage.
What did they do to receive this brutal treatment? nothing. A crime was committed, the guilty must be penalized and the victim must be set free. The American Plantations soil which represents the body, spirit and soul of our ancestors are soaked with they’re Blood and Tears, must be returned back to Africa.
This must be done in a Humane, Dignified and Respectful manner which is the least that can be done to honor and pay tribute to them. Even today, the residual effects of this barbaric and evil deed of slavery plagues the growth of the descendants of these people.
In 1918 Mary Turner was lynched for protesting her husbands lynching, she was eight months pregnant and her baby was cut from her stomach and killed by stomping. This occurred 53 years after the abolishment of slavery.
From 1619 until 1865 our ancestor served thru the worst humanly possible conditions, worked till no end, humiliated and dehumanized. Wives raped basically as a public viewing, children used as food for alligators, men, women and children where hung by the neck as crowds cheered and revered the initiator, because they had removed these animals from our system. A system of liberty and justice for all, A system where we can practice freedom of Religion. A system that endows us by the creator with enaliable rights to life liberty an the pursuit of happiness, and that all men are created equally. In the end our Ancestor where tied and whipped for being disrespectful or disobedient because they heard of those rights and asked if they where also entitled?
They just wanted to go home, our Ancestors where good, honorable people. I often ask myself, if my Great, Great, Great Grand parents would be proud of me? They suffered for my existence, but not by choice because they didn't have one.
They perservered because they had a belief and value system based on a faith and principle, that provided them understanding during adversity. As the master was hanging his people he, prayed not only for the victim but the victimizer as well.
Like Joesph, the son of Jacob son of Rachel was given to Egypt for reasons of servitude, his relationship with God was not to be compromised regardless of the situation. Our Ancestors did the same and for that we honor them.
They commited themselves to what they believed and would not let the wickedness of their oppressors deter them. In faith they prayed, that one day they would be free. It is time to free them.
We ask that the Soil to be transported to the embarkation point by the same means as our ancestors were transported to the plantations.