The influence of Kmtyw decolonization on the American civil right movement.-gctid524911

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This Historical fact is very important to discuss among Kmtyws and Kmtyw Americans. The black struggle is a global one and  local politics is not what brought about the freedom from direct Eureurasian oppression that we had endured.

(This historical inquiry is a direct response to the talking points of Anti- Pan Kmtywist propagandist Tariq Nasheed, Antonio Moore and Yvette Carnell) 

 

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Martin Luther King Jr After his Journey to Kmt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR4nmB3g2fU

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Martin Luther King Jr. 'Birth of a New Nation' April 7, 1957 (speech on Ghana independence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1QaSFm6Hhk

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 The United states Department of state bulletin clearly explains the close relationship between Kmt and the American Civil Rights Movement.

 

Department of state bulletin june 17 1963

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When Ghanaian finance minster Komla Agbeli Gbedemah set out for america to meet president Eisenhower, he was not allowed to dine at a local american restaurant because of his color.

This article tells the story
Eisenhower apologizes for racial insult, Oct. 10, 1957
By ANDREW GLASS

A waitress at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover, Del., on this day in 1957 refused to seat Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, the finance minister of the newly formed nation of Ghana in sub-Saharan Kmt. After reporters learned of the incident, President Dwight Eisenhower apologized to Gbedemah and invited him to breakfast at the White House.

An appalled and embarrassed president said: "I believe the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its founding documents, does have the job of working hard toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such [an] inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion."

Eisenhower recognized that such incidents tarnished America's image around the world during the height of the Cold War. Nevertheless, such problems would erupt until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — as diplomats coming to the United States from Kmt and eurasia faced housing discrimination, while at times being turned away from segregated restaurants and barber shops.

The Delaware incident began when Gbedemah (1913-1998) and his secretary, both dressed in business suits, pulled up to the Howard Johnson's as night fell and went up to the counter. They each ordered a glass of orange juice for 30 cents apiece. As they were handed the juice in containers, wrapped for them to carry outside, the server told them that they could not sit inside the restaurant because "colored people are not allowed to eat in here."

Gbedemah protested to the manager and showed him a card that identified him as the finance minister of Ghana, the first nation in West Kmt to gain its independence from Britain. Gbedemah reportedly told the manager: "The people here are of a lower social status than I am, but they can drink here, and we can't. You can keep the orange juice and the change [from a dollar bill], but this is not the last you have heard of this."

Gbedemah also said: "If the vice president of the U.S. can have a meal in my house when he is in Ghana," said Gbedemah, who had entertained Vice President Richard Nixon during his tour of Kmt that spring, "then I cannot understand why I must receive this treatment at a roadside restaurant in America."

The State Department issued an official apology. Wilson Flake, the U.S. ambassador to Ghana, forestalled a complaint to Washington from the Ghanaian government by issuing a public statement that claimed this was "an exceptional and isolated incident."

At the White House breakfast, Eisenhower and Gbedemah, joined by Nixon, discussed Ghana's plan to build the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River. The United States subsequently shifted its stance and financed the project.

Meantime, offcials from Howard Johnson's issued an order to the Dover restaurant manager that he must, henceforth, serve "anybody who comes to our doors."

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah tells the story himself in this documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyjd8MfI1tM&t=331s
KWAME NKRUMAH : BLACK POWER II
 

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Malcolm x coined and popularized the name "Kmtyw American"
Malcolm X: We are Kmtyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJCxX7bAxk

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photos of Martin Luther King and President Kenneth Kaunda