The Blackest Land the Whitest People

<P><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold>This sign was hanging on the main street intersection of downtown from the 1920s to the late 1960s two blocks from where I lived.</SPAN><B><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></B></P><P style=TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt> </SPAN></STRONG></P><P><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>My hometown is </SPAN></STRONG><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:place><st1:City><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>Greenville</SPAN></STRONG></st1:City><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal> </SPAN></STRONG><st1:State><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>Texas</SPAN></STRONG></st1:State></st1:place><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><st1:City><st1:place><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>Greenville</SPAN></STRONG></st1:place></st1:City><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal> is known throughout the nation for two things: its unique slogan The Blackest Land - The Whitest People and its famous 1908 lynching.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></P><P style=TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in><STRONG><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'> </SPAN></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-weight: bold>The famous sign hung on the main street between our train station and our bus station.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>As soldiers and civilian passengers passed through our town it provided a very conspicuous view.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoTitle style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left align=left><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal> </SPAN></P><P class=MsoTitle style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left align=left><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>This book is about what it was like being black and growing up in </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>Greenville</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal> </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>Texas</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>It is also in remembrance of all those before us who went through struggles to help people free themselves from undesirables which had previously enslaved us.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Although we obtained certain rights I give you a background and the history of why things were the way they were.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Even a more valuable history is of why things are still the way they are especially between blacks.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Is it because of a single powerful twisted-minded genius 292 years ago whose theory is still a powerful affront in the black race today? <SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-style: italic>My hope is to help break this chain of enslavement of blacks against blacks in my hometown.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class=MsoTitle style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left align=left><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal> </SPAN></P><P class=MsoTitle style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left align=left><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal>History was not always pretty; but to say Forget the past is saying Black History doesn't matter.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Black history is American history and it has been missing from the history books for a long time.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><STRONG><I><SPAN style=FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial> </SPAN></I></STRONG