Fermat is for world freedom what the Green Book was for African Americans
The blockchain revolution, heralded by its most well known contribution Bitcoin, means a lot of things to a lot of people. For many it is an investment vehicle. For others it is an anarchist ultimate dream for subversion. Some just want to communicate securely while others want to trade without boundaries. These are the blockchain dreams of most who live in relatively free and democratic places. But what about those who live in places where freedom of expression, freedom of commerce, freedom to communicate and freedom to congregate are limited to non existent? This is the state of much of the world’s population today. And no one understands their plight more than African Americans. We who have spent most of our years living in a land that espouses freedom, watching others be free, yet seeing it denied to us time and again. We have had to create crutches — customs, traditions and cultural ways designed to lighten the chains of oppression put upon our ankles by the powers that be.
One of those crutches was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, published by Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966. This was a yearly publication that compiled safe places for African American travelers to stop and eat, get lodging, gas and even safe access to a toilet. This was the era of “sun down towns” where a black person could be beat and murdered for being caught in a place after sundown. The Green Book is just one example of many things that we had to do in order to survive and tear down the walls that eventually led to the election of President Barack Obama. But even after the election of a black president, the rise of President Trump proves we still have a long way to go.
So African Americans understand through experience the plight of a woman in Afghanistan who can’t open a bank account or own a business in her own name. We understand the writer under an unjust and cruel regime who is risking his life to express himself somewhere in Asia. We understand groups of Middle eastern people who simply want to communicate on social media being blacked out, then black listed by evil governments. And we understand about someone in Cyprus having wealth confiscated from their back account like a Mafia style “vig” because so much black wealth was stolen from us in America.
Victor Hugo Green published the Green Book and saved many. Now
Luis Fernando Molina is introducing the world to what some call the next innovation in the blockchain space, Fermat: the Internet of People. Enabling person to person communication, commerce and freedom of expression that removes middle men, who so often have been arms of oppression, is priceless beyond words. I am inspired, and as leader of the New York chapter of Fermat my special mandate is to reach out to all, but especially my community, and assist in these endeavors in any way I can. I became involved because as an African American I perceive Fermat for what it truly means for the entire world. Thank you Victor Hugo Green for making America safer for my people. And thank you Luis Fernando Molina for Fermat and the Internet of People, a vehicle for safety and freedom for everyone.
