Friday, May 9 at 7 pm Lucy Parsons Books 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston

Ron Peden of Cambridge will sign copies of his new book, NOTES ON THE STATE OF AMERICA: Black to the future, or White from the past?  is available on Amazon.com,  select book stores and from the publisher at www.orgamu.com, for the cover price of $18.   Is A Partition Of America The Real Solution To The Country’s Persistent Racial Inequality?   Will Obama’s promise of “Unity” and “Hope” truly end our cultural divide?

The author of a new book marking the bicentennial end to American participation in the African slave trade, NOTES ON THE STATE OF AMERICA, promotes political and economic independence for Black America through slavery Reparations, potentially encompassing even a geographical partition, as the solution to American social inequality. Self-determination, writes author Ron Peden of Cambridge, represents the ultimate freedom from the hegemony of White supremacy perpetually marginalizing America’s African slave descendants. Barack Obama can no more end America’s racial strife than any White person in America can. That is because inequality is deeply ingrained into the American tradition and, almost effortlessly, plays itself out in the everyday exchange that routinely results in White over Black. Moreover, the “audacity” to send billions of dollars every year to Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, Colombia and Afghanistan, among others, both friend and foe — not to mention Iraq — while millions more goes south of the border through employment reserved for foreign labor, will not change, and is wholly unacceptable while Black youth, told ‘No help wanted!’ are being killed, jailed and buying out of the system in alarming numbers. The patience of Black America is no longer a virtue. It is critical for Blacks to more urgently demand justice and dignity for the billions endowed to America from the nation’s two-plus centuries of Black slavery, lest the effect on White America of a Black President becomes an unintended tightening of the noose, as often happens, history shows, upon regime change.   NOTES ON THE STATE OF AMERICA: Black to the future, or White from the past?  is available on Amazon.com,  select book stores and from the publisher at www.orgamu.com, for the cover price of $18.