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Stolen Legacy of Leidesdorff Ranch ~ California Black History
California Black History Month 2008
The stolen legacy of Leidesdorff Ranch places squarely on the world stage the ongoing racial hatred on display by the Sacramento County, in the State of California. The amazing accomplishments of an African Jewish 'Founding Father of Califorina' is too much for a generation of public policy leaders trained and living in a world of systemic institutional racism. We need to turn the page on that demonic history of service. Together, we can identify a new democratic majority that will embrace the notion of "we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal," inclusive of the entire human family.
The stolen legacy of Leidesdorff Ranch places squarely on the world stage the ongoing racial hatred on display by the Sacramento County, in the State of California. The amazing accomplishments of an African Jewish 'Founding Father of Califorina' is too much for a generation of public policy leaders trained and living in a world of systemic institutional racism. We need to turn the page on that demonic history of service. Together, we can identify a new democratic majority that will embrace the notion of "we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal," inclusive of the entire human family.
Washington D.C. ~ One of the saddest aspects of the enslavement of human beings in the State of California was the fact that many of the African Mexicans who led the long fight to end Spanish rule and slavery in Mexico in 1821, lost their freedom while helping to establish U.S. rule in 1846 and California statehood.
The first U.S. diplomat, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. died in 1848 under very mysterious circumstances and his extended family could not retain the vast wealth of his estate because of ‘legal’ systemic institutional racism in the early development of State of California. Today, we have an new day of possibilities.
Breckenridge Democratic rule supported and expanded slavery into the Golden State and would not allow a Black woman to own the largest and wealthiest estate in the State of California employing Mexican, Indian, Hawaiian, Russian, German, French and African American workers throughout Northern California. Many governmental officials became very wealthy by sharing the spoils from the ongoing Stolen Legacy: Black Land Loss in the State of California, today we can do better.
Just two years after the death of Leidesdorff, the first California Governor proposed to export every person of African ancestry out of the State in his inaugural address. Governor Peter Burnett barely lost that vote, however later as California Supreme Court Justice he helped enact laws that completely disenfranchised ‘colored’ residents based upon race, ethnicity and religion, many whom were no longer able to vote, testify in court, homestead land or send their children to school.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Taney, in 1857, the infamous Dred Scott decision, effectively made chattel slavery the nationwide law of the land, “where the black man, slave or free had no rights that the white man is bound to respect” leading our nation rapidly toward a bloody Civil War. Subsequent changes to our U.S. Constitution now embrace a path ‘toward a more perfect union’ inclusive of all contributions by citizens of our great nation.
Today, most U.S. citizens remain unaware of the “Golden Legacy of William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.” and his significant contributions throughout the United States of America. Our National Bicentennial Commission, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr., will be introduced during Black History Month 2008 in our U.S. Congress.
Our once leading public education system was first established by the guidance of Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.; he served as President of the first public school board that opened the first public school in California. Yet today, several leading public officials use the excuse of an inability to pronounce his Danish Jewish surname to continue exclusion of his unique African American contributions to humanity.
Many Black landowners were good stewards of over one million square miles of land in Alta California territory, the Louisiana territory, and Florida territory. In these areas of the modern United States of America, there were many Black nations that lived in for centuries in harmony and often together with Indian Country.
In the rotunda of the California State Capitol, Christopher Columbus is on bended knee handing the world to Queen Isabella of Spain. Beginning in the 16th century legal enslavement of Africans and destruction of aboriginal populations through a Papal Edict gave the Christian nations of Europe the go-ahead to make slaves of all “non-Europeans” in a newly partitioned western hemisphere of exploration.
Salient facts will not be denied by honest people, however truth and justice is an ongoing battle, yes we can.
In the 1990’s, the U.S. returned about 68,000 square acres of land to the Washitaw Nation of Louisiana, one of the prehistoric Black nations prior to U.S. acquisition. This historic Black nation state is evidence of historic land stewardships of high culture Black civilization before English, Danish, Dutch, Spanish and French colonization of North America.
Many Blacks living today are descended from the pre-Columbian Black nations. Now is the time for this issue to be included during our 10th National Black Land Loss Summit.
The taking of Black owned land throughout North America was part of the ‘manifest destiny’ of U.S. President Polk, a North Carolina slave owners. He and Thomas Larkin, a resident of Wilmington, North Carolina prior to arriving as U.S. Consul, Mexican California completing his assignment with the ratification of the Peace Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the text of the California Constitution.
The French, Russian, Danish, English and Spanish retain primary source documentation of early contact with descendants of pre-Columbus African sea farers who settled in the western hemisphere thousands of years Before Christ. They were boat builders, builders of earthen pyramid mounds, seafarers and practiced traditional agriculture.
Along the American River Parkway in Sacramento County, hundreds of earthen pyramid mounds were ‘discovered’ along the southern and northern banks of the American River documenting early contact during the Age of Sail and hunting of otter, beaver and seals in the pristine waters from the mountains of El Dorado.
In 1844, the Mexican land grant of Rancho Rio De Los Americanos specifically spoke of not disturbing the remaining aboriginal settlements up stream from the Leidesdorff Adobe Ranch Complex. His established cattle, wheat and agribusiness operation was a central catalyst to help stabilize the Sacramento Valley, feeding, clothing and housing many regional California pioneers of all ethnicities.
Sacramento County has recined resolution to allow the demonic racial character of C.M. Goethe to remain on the Regional Park; our proposal would change the tone of the discussion from how much assessment or additional taxes current residents along the American River Parkway should pay for decades, toward a conversation of how to replicate economic stability at historic Leidesdorff Ranch and showcase the ongoing contributions of a African-Cuban, Danish Jewish family legacy of excellence.
Yes we can.
Together, we can restore an authentic regional asset to economic stability and help forever preserve our regional “crown jewel, the American River Parkway” for future generations. We can become inclusive of authentic historical preservation and modern environmental stewardship while developing a world class cultural tourist destination, Leidesdorff Ranch Regional Park.
We Need You and Your Support
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association
Leidesdorff Ranch Project
P.O. Box 5071
Sacramento, CA 95817
Blackagriculture [at] yahoo.com ~ (916) 220-5320
The first U.S. diplomat, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. died in 1848 under very mysterious circumstances and his extended family could not retain the vast wealth of his estate because of ‘legal’ systemic institutional racism in the early development of State of California. Today, we have an new day of possibilities.
Breckenridge Democratic rule supported and expanded slavery into the Golden State and would not allow a Black woman to own the largest and wealthiest estate in the State of California employing Mexican, Indian, Hawaiian, Russian, German, French and African American workers throughout Northern California. Many governmental officials became very wealthy by sharing the spoils from the ongoing Stolen Legacy: Black Land Loss in the State of California, today we can do better.
Just two years after the death of Leidesdorff, the first California Governor proposed to export every person of African ancestry out of the State in his inaugural address. Governor Peter Burnett barely lost that vote, however later as California Supreme Court Justice he helped enact laws that completely disenfranchised ‘colored’ residents based upon race, ethnicity and religion, many whom were no longer able to vote, testify in court, homestead land or send their children to school.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Taney, in 1857, the infamous Dred Scott decision, effectively made chattel slavery the nationwide law of the land, “where the black man, slave or free had no rights that the white man is bound to respect” leading our nation rapidly toward a bloody Civil War. Subsequent changes to our U.S. Constitution now embrace a path ‘toward a more perfect union’ inclusive of all contributions by citizens of our great nation.
Today, most U.S. citizens remain unaware of the “Golden Legacy of William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.” and his significant contributions throughout the United States of America. Our National Bicentennial Commission, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr., will be introduced during Black History Month 2008 in our U.S. Congress.
Our once leading public education system was first established by the guidance of Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.; he served as President of the first public school board that opened the first public school in California. Yet today, several leading public officials use the excuse of an inability to pronounce his Danish Jewish surname to continue exclusion of his unique African American contributions to humanity.
Many Black landowners were good stewards of over one million square miles of land in Alta California territory, the Louisiana territory, and Florida territory. In these areas of the modern United States of America, there were many Black nations that lived in for centuries in harmony and often together with Indian Country.
In the rotunda of the California State Capitol, Christopher Columbus is on bended knee handing the world to Queen Isabella of Spain. Beginning in the 16th century legal enslavement of Africans and destruction of aboriginal populations through a Papal Edict gave the Christian nations of Europe the go-ahead to make slaves of all “non-Europeans” in a newly partitioned western hemisphere of exploration.
Salient facts will not be denied by honest people, however truth and justice is an ongoing battle, yes we can.
In the 1990’s, the U.S. returned about 68,000 square acres of land to the Washitaw Nation of Louisiana, one of the prehistoric Black nations prior to U.S. acquisition. This historic Black nation state is evidence of historic land stewardships of high culture Black civilization before English, Danish, Dutch, Spanish and French colonization of North America.
Many Blacks living today are descended from the pre-Columbian Black nations. Now is the time for this issue to be included during our 10th National Black Land Loss Summit.
The taking of Black owned land throughout North America was part of the ‘manifest destiny’ of U.S. President Polk, a North Carolina slave owners. He and Thomas Larkin, a resident of Wilmington, North Carolina prior to arriving as U.S. Consul, Mexican California completing his assignment with the ratification of the Peace Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the text of the California Constitution.
The French, Russian, Danish, English and Spanish retain primary source documentation of early contact with descendants of pre-Columbus African sea farers who settled in the western hemisphere thousands of years Before Christ. They were boat builders, builders of earthen pyramid mounds, seafarers and practiced traditional agriculture.
Along the American River Parkway in Sacramento County, hundreds of earthen pyramid mounds were ‘discovered’ along the southern and northern banks of the American River documenting early contact during the Age of Sail and hunting of otter, beaver and seals in the pristine waters from the mountains of El Dorado.
In 1844, the Mexican land grant of Rancho Rio De Los Americanos specifically spoke of not disturbing the remaining aboriginal settlements up stream from the Leidesdorff Adobe Ranch Complex. His established cattle, wheat and agribusiness operation was a central catalyst to help stabilize the Sacramento Valley, feeding, clothing and housing many regional California pioneers of all ethnicities.
Sacramento County has recined resolution to allow the demonic racial character of C.M. Goethe to remain on the Regional Park; our proposal would change the tone of the discussion from how much assessment or additional taxes current residents along the American River Parkway should pay for decades, toward a conversation of how to replicate economic stability at historic Leidesdorff Ranch and showcase the ongoing contributions of a African-Cuban, Danish Jewish family legacy of excellence.
Yes we can.
Together, we can restore an authentic regional asset to economic stability and help forever preserve our regional “crown jewel, the American River Parkway” for future generations. We can become inclusive of authentic historical preservation and modern environmental stewardship while developing a world class cultural tourist destination, Leidesdorff Ranch Regional Park.
We Need You and Your Support
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association
Leidesdorff Ranch Project
P.O. Box 5071
Sacramento, CA 95817
Blackagriculture [at] yahoo.com ~ (916) 220-5320
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