Rebuilding Black America: Class-action lawsuit against the United States government

5 Jan, 2024

Rebuilding Black America: Class-action lawsuit against the United States government

Isaac and Rosa, enslaved children from New Orleans
Isaac and Rosa, enslaved children from New Orleans

 

Happy New Year American Freedmen, 

Grassroots advocates are currently are preparing a larger movement to file a 2024 class-action lawsuit on behalf of the ethnic group generally known as Black/African American Freedmen, the descendant class of the U.S emancipation, of U.S chattel slavery and we are going to need all hands on deck for support. 
 
At this time, grassroots advocates at the Freedmen’s Bureau are working to set up a collective trust account to legally withhold taxes into a trust in order to pay out a UBI to our people that are owed a debt that has not been paid and the withhold will continue until a full restorative justice package from the government that works for us, is paid to the American Freedmen descendant class and the package must include cash, land, and other assets that are owed. We have sent a letter of intent to the IRS already to notify them of intent to include agencies such as the IRS in the suit after they intentionally targeted Black Americans who have been historically denied equitable use of the dollar. We believe that we have a case of extortion and entrapment against the agency.
 
At this time, we do not have an attorney on the case, but we believe that we have enough grassroots advocates to take this case to request a resolution before the courts. The goal is to have the case filed by the Summer of 2024. As we work to file the case and through the process of the case itself, we will be holding virtual/in-person meetings with the community that wishes to stay up to date with everything that is happening on our end regarding the grassroots effort via the Freedmen’s Bureau. We will also hold an initial meeting to discuss specific resolutions that the collective American Freedmen require. This meeting will be early in 2024. 
 
During the varying local and state reparations meetings, plenty of evidence was found in the favor of American Freedmen that did show and prove that the United States, state and local governments have engaged in crimes of: genocide, human trafficking, enslavement, property theft, treason, entrapment, and more against Black American Freedmen. For many cases as well we will be able to prove that the United States government paid former slave owners for “property loss” when slavery ended, this was after said slave owners bred their mulatto children into slavery. The same government that paid white slave owners for property loss also brought forth a constitutional amendment that prohibited Black American Freedmen from voting while allowing their White colonial ancestors that bred children into slavery a vote. 
That amendment was invalid for the simple fact that Black Americans, a large majority of us did in fact have White European American ancestors that had voted in prior elections aka we had a governance that intentionally tried to distort facts of our lineage in order to prevent us from participating in a system that our ancestors (freed and enslaved) helped to build and this was happening based on the created concepts of race.

We have more information coming within the next few months and this letter is a notice to American Freedmen as to what our intent is from the progressive socialist grassroots space. To be clear again we are planning to;

  1. Secure an American Freedmen trust account in order to legally withhold taxes in order to pay a debt that is owned yet being denied to the American Freedmen descendant class. We plan to have this trust open early in 2024 and the withholding of taxes into the trust will be voluntarily. When the trust reaches a certain threshold for taxes and/or any possible donations it will be used to 1.) pay out a general UBI of at least $500 a month starting with confirmed descendants who contributed to said trust account. A small amount of $50 from each UBI payment may be withheld for future direct descendants of said persons that is paid out (HOH) 2.) A confirmed total or ongoing amount will be confirmed 3.) a portion of the money will be used to to rebuild, invest and establish new American Freedmen towns and to protect them from all forms of structural and/or other violence. TBD based on community meeting. 
  2. File a class action lawsuit by the summer of 2024 on behalf of Black/African American Freedmen, descendants of the U.S emancipation who identify today as Black or African American Freedmen and have been as early as their earliest census record. The reparations package must include: Direct cash payments to descendants, we will be requesting $20 million per descendant. It must also include land and housing back, and specific constitutional policy changes to prevent the government from interfering with the well-being of citizens.  We will be discussing in more detail at our meetings about what a full restorative package should look like. 
  3. We are going to hold  meetings to discuss with the community and to gather more evidence for the case. The case is being made against: 1.) The United States, State, and Local governments 2.) The IRS 3.) Banks and/or other major sectors that participated in chattel slavery, human trafficking, etc. 4.) The resolution will request that the annual federal spending that is given to “holocaust remembrance” funding be rationed equitably with a portion of the funding going directly to the American Freedmen’s Historical records archives and educational systems as Black Americans are survivors of the American holocaust that inspired Hitler and the Germans. 5.) We will be requesting specific available public land sites for a land and housing back project. Some examples include sites like the “Santa Monica Airport” in Los Angeles county, CA that is slated to close. Santa Monica is a city that has specifically displaced Black Americans. Other sites TBD.
  4. Continue community meetings to begin the process of rebuilding Black America with those that are interested in that process while continuing to have an open mind. 
We know what we are proposing is big from a grassroots perspective but we have been going in cycles of intentionally created chaos at the hands of a rogue governance that is being accused of serious crimes. Under our constitutional rights, we do have the right to call for redress of the government and if we are continually denied equitable use of the common means of exchange we will have to create our own local exchange systems to use within our own towns and states. The primary complaint on this case will be led with specific family records of American Freedmen to show how the U.S government aided their white slave owning family members that were trafficking their mulatto children into slavery.
 
 
I’ll end the post with this, many Black Americans are leaving the United States for other countries. The exodus movement is very real and I’m wondering about all the work that our ancestors put in but I understand that many of us are tired and I’ll simply say that I don’t think that we can run from this issue and I believe that it is our best interest to address this head on to prevent it from happening again. Even as many of our people are leaving the states, I have proposed to them about using our collective European and/or African ancestry to make a land back request in some of those places that were directly involved in the systematic violence of human trafficking but I do think our primary claim is against the U.S as our lineage existed in the Americas even before the country was founded and I do believe that we collectively share a larger portion of Indigenous ancestry that is not correctly being accounted for as we are an amalgamation of Indigenous American, European, and African ancestry. That amalgamation created the identify that we are today. My point is that we need to take up and hold space no matter where we are on this Earth. We are being displaced over and over again through generations.
 
Refusing to hold the U.S governance that was founded through violent colonial systems, refusing to hold the U.S accountable for the American holocaust that inspired Hitler and that our ancestors survived has allowed the government to continue on across the globe with crimes against humanity and I’m against that. I’m pro-life for all living beings that come into incarnation. 
 
I recently saw the discussion from a well known Black American actor that mentioned how they weren’t being paid fair and all I will say is this, we will never ever get true equity for our collective people as long as we continue to try to shrink ourselves down to fit within a system that is designed to work against us and to only benefit a small minority. There are almost 50 million American Freedmen descendants and though it’s not likely that all of us will want to work together, many of us will and we have done this in the past before we were disrupted by drugs, guns, and pollutants that were planted in our neighborhood. In the words of our late ancestor Prince, “Imagine what we would all be like in our own GAME”. 
 

 

 
 
Best, 
America Freedmen 

 

 

Genealogy notes: 
“Noticed you updated your tree with the information I shared with you. I think you will see connects to your family but it’s just as important to add the White children of Elijah and build out the descendants of William Swain. I think you will start to find DNA matches in your thruline. Tracing your ancestry through Lee who is the son of Henry Griffin Swayne connects your lineage to Elijah Swain (White) a slaveowner who generationally owned Caroline Swain the mother of Henry G, her mother is Fannie Swain and Elijah Swain is the biological father of Henry G. Swain. Caroline and Fannie are named in the Will of Elijah and so is Willis Swain whose mother is also Fannie. She was living with him in the 1870 census. No evidence yet who Willis and Caroline’s father is. Willis identified Fannie as Mulatto, so it seems that miscegenation was also generational.
Caroline took the name Swain after the civil war. In slavery she was just Caroline. Caroline is mulatto because she is also of mixed race or presents as such. We know that mixed race people were not considered White for racial reasons. Her children look like her because they carry the same phenotype through her genes. Just like light skin Blacks who haven’t mixed for generations still present as White. I have many relatives that have black parents and grandparents who look white.
Elijah was not married to Caroline, she was his slave whom he impregnated. there was no love, just rape of a woman without a choice. He was married but neither of his wives had children. Just the woman he had extra-marital affairs with. And why do you think you are related to Capt John Smith?” -D. Mc
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“Greetings to you ———

The Tann Family has many branches on our family tree. The Tann family origins are indigenous to Virginia. The Kikotan Nation lived in the area prior to the settlement of Jamestown. Our earliest ancestor is Opechanough who was captured by the English and shot and killed during the 1600s. He was 100 years old at the time. 
Robert Sweat is the first English connection with the Tann family. He was born in English and had children with Margaret Cornish. Margaret Cornish settled in Virginia in 1625. And there are many questions about her. Margaret had children with Robert Sweat.  Robert Sweat was an indentured servant in the British Colony of Virginia. When Robert Sweat died, Margaret had children with John Kicotan. 
The early ancestors married English women and migrated to other areas in the United States. (North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi). Native Americans were considered Black, Negro, etc. The word “Mulatto” was originally described as a “Native American and European mixture”. So on the census and other documents, you will discover “B” or “M” for the Tann family.  And they were identified as “Black” and their partners were black.  Also, the “one drop rule” originally was “if you had one drop of European you were “white”. This rule changed during the civil war because there was a  need to increase the number of people of color. Also when a person considered themselves native american they were told they were ‘Black”. This is why others are searching for African roots and can’t find them because they are Native American at least for some parts of their family tree. 
The Tann family was able to migrate all across the U.S. with very few restrictions. This is an event in the places their descendants lived. Anthony Tann migrated from Virginia, and his descendants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Anthony Tann and his brother lived in South Carolina, where they purchased land. Anthony migrated to Illinois and became  “Shaker”. And his descendants migrated to other states. 
I discovered that the Tann family in South Carolina were “white” and they were excluded from Paul Heinegg’s research even though they are still descendants of the Tann family.  Several years ago, I contacted him to ask why did he exclude this branch of the family tree and he did not respond to my letter. 
I have the Native names of our earlier indigenous Tann family and I have not published it yet. I hope this information will help you with your research.” -Guadalupe V.R.
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“Hello, nice to meet you cousin! I hope you’re doing well. Henry G. (Griffin) Swayne married to Ida Swayne was a tall man. The other Henry Swain was my gr-grandfather on my grandmas side. He was shorter and the one that helped tell the story of Booker T. Washington’s birthplace.”
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“Hello,

Goldie Williamson was the birth daughter of Hester Johns and Ellsworth Bethel. Hester was the daughter of Ellen Greenaway, who was the elder sister of Minnie Tann. After Hester’s death, Goldie was given to Minnie and Cordy Tann and adopted by them. She would still be related to Minnie, as that was her biological great-niece. Too, Cordy and Minnie had an elder daughter, also named Goldie, who married Frank (I believe was his first name) Chapman; she died in 1900, before your great-great-grandmother, Goldie, was born.“

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” I found out about John Edgar Myles being the father of Lucy Ann Martin though DNA matches. He’s my 4th great grandfather and I have 4th cousins who are African American, so I decided to investigate it. I also went through documentation of him being the informant on a death certificate of one of Ellen Johnson’s other children. I can only say for certain that he fathered Lucy Ann Martin. However, I wonder if they had more children together. I’ve worked on other AA family trees, where they’ve gone from mulattos to white to black. Its such an imperfect science. I often think its based on the census takers opinion.”
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“John Meador Holland Sr (the dad) has a will attached to his page in my tree. It does list the names of some enslaved people that were willed to his children. John Meador Holland Jr is probably the John M Holland listed in 1850 and 1860 (after his father died) in the slave schedules in the county. Those are the facts. I have also always been told that not only did slaves build John Meador Holland Sr’s house, they were also the hand-made brick makers and builders of Bethel Baptist Church in 1824 very near the home (church still stands). So there is no question that John Meador Holland and his children were slave owners. Thus, I am not at all surprised that DNA tests may be connected back to him from folks that might be descended from his enslaved people.

For just a couple of my relatives, I have records of who their slave families involved and some of the descendants still in the area, but that’s not true for John Meador Holland. I’m directly descended from him (both on my mom and dad’s sides) as well as his brother Peter Diggins Holland. My 3rd and 4th great grandfathers on my Perdue side were both sued in court, records available, by their wives for support because the males were so involved with their slave families. My 3rd great is buried with his slave family that were freed just before he died just after the end of the Civil War. So I think families with slaves were probably common back in that sad time. I want to point out here that in the later 1700s, the Hollands, Smiths, Dillons, Perdues, and several other families moved to Franklin County as the first non-Indians and had BIG chunks of land. I’m descended from all the Hollands, 3 Smith siblings, 3 Dillon siblings, etc, and all of these families lived in a wedge of Franklin County between Glade Hill and Burnt Chimney if you look on a map. For the next 200 years, they married each other. No one moved into Franklin County and jumped into the family trees. Cousins married cousins married cousins. They didn’t wander off into the other parts of Franklin County for spouses much either.”

(the historical information is being provided in honest and good faith. Should any amendments be made, an update and statement of correction will be made)