Dear Ms. Lunelle,
As you are aware, I have been working very hard in preparation for my next Open Letter and Open Report. However, on Sunday afternoon, January 5, 2025, my babies would come to my door and after prayer I knew that something had disturbed them as deeply as anything I had ever been privy to before.
Mr. HK, Malik would begin: "You stood right here yesterday and told us that President Jimmy Carter, in lieu of some his proclaimed failings as President of the United States, was one of the ‘greatest and bravest White men to ever live of man and to occupy the White House’.
You said that Black folks are proclaimed to be like crabs in a bucket: ‘When one starts to climb out, two others will pull him back in’. However, President Jimmy Carter built steps in that bucket and put ladders in it, grabbed one of the two men that you considered your Black heroes and real Civil Rights Leaders, Dr. Andrew Young(and not to forget, and while he might never have met President Carter, the Honorable Virgil Smith, Former Editor and CEO of the Asheville Citizen Times Newspaper) to lead the Southern Black folk on a righteous path of social vertical mobility like the one that Honorable Rev. R. L. Dabney of Prince Edward County, Virginia pleaded in a letter to General Howard, the Head of the Freedman’s Bureau on June 12, 1865 to do.
Mr. HK, President Carter led the way and signed the Order to return the American Citizenship to the Honorable President Jefferson Davis, another Southern White man who with his family at Davis Bend Plantations proved their love for the African people. And not to forget Jim Limber, his adopted slave son.
Yet here is President Carter's son, Skip, who is said to have been in charge of the burial agenda for his father would follow a path of the highest disrespect:
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