America represents an idea of hope and ambition as an ambassador to humanity. However, America is not perfect and must continually challenge its ideology to live up to its ideals of equality. While progress has been made since the Emancipation Proclamation, such as the celebration of Juneteenth, more must be done to ensure equal economic and social opportunities for all inhabitants of America to avoid creating divisions. True equality lies in evaluating people based on needs rather than superficial attributes like skin color.

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PROJECT: ONE TEAM AMERICA
America – The United State of America, is not just an aggregation of states and union territories.
America is a concept. America is hope. America is an ambassador to the human race. It is a
place, an idea, and a representation of the true world domicile by the human race.
All these together give America the highest responsibilities and duties. At the same time,
America is under the most powerful microscope in the world – this microscope is made out of 6
billion pairs of optical lenses for human eyes and ears. It wouldn’t be wise to think, that
something foolish and biased will be unnoticed or slip by.
America – is one of the best nations so far, however not the absolute best. Being best among the
worst is no good. To bring out the best of America – the ideology- has to be challenged over and
over again – by all the people of the world. Time has arrived as it did 150 years ago – when
President Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Emancipation. However, the country took 100 years
or two generations to realize President Lincoln’s vision and several great leaders such as Vernon
Jordan, Malcolm X, Brown, Kennedy, King, and Carter. While the world took a little longer the
world took longer to understand the vision of President Lincoln – for example, It took South
Africa about 133 years and some parts of the world still “did Not get It”.
Juneteenth is a celebration of high pigmentation-America’s embracement of the Concept of
America. It is the representation of America the Ambassador. It is the state of Advancement in
America. Economically and socially it is
disadvantageous to leave or push one or more of the
inhabitants of the country behind. It is equally
disadvantageous to push or leave behind one or more of
the earth’s inhabitants. Like the “Crab syndrome”
meaning those who we leave behind will pull us down,
and pull us down hard, with more force and numbers.
President Lincoln signed a piece of paper 150 years ago
and the great great grandchildren of the people of his
generation are enjoying the benefit of it. What are we
doing today, to make our grandchildren and great-
grandchildren celebrate 150 years from now? Are we
too self-centered or selfish?
Concept America- is a representation of the human
habitat of mother earth. America has variable pigmentations, vocabulary, and foods. And,
underneath all pigmentation lies the color red – the color of the stripes on the spangle Banner.
There is 0.0001% or less variability in the genetic level of all this pigmentation.
Yet, every time, we apply for voter registration, employment, grants, loan, housing, counseling,
and education we are asked to and often compelled to differentiate the fine-tuning of the
pigmentation – the Black, the Brown, and the White. Yellow is replaced by a different word and
so are the other shades of brown. Do we need these pigmentation categories or do we need – the

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“need-based” categories - to make sure that no one is pushed or left behind so we can avoid the
creation of the “Crab Syndrome”
A pictorial representation of “Concept
America” is –Project America – the “One Team
America”. We are one. Depigmentation is
merely a part of slow and reversible photo-
physiological processes. It does not have any
economic or intellectual basis. The use of
hyphenated American is meaningful or not is a
subject of intellectual debate and solution of a
wisdom America.
Let's visualize the economic impact of
Juneteenth – simply in billions of dollars of
revenues and taxes born out of Inventions,
Discoveries, and Corporate and Political
leadership of the highest pigmentation. However, the
largest portion is also left behind in the high-wall
cages - the correction Facilities- of “Concept
America”. Something is WRONG with this picture.
Let's look for the root cause, as remote as that might
be. We must not stop at the surface of the problem. If
we do, we will just transfer our problems to our
unborn grandchildren – it will simply be a felony that
no jury disagrees with.
Hope America: A critical mass of America with
variable pigmentations seems to be moving the
“concept of America” forward. From time to time
when this invisible critical mass takes hold, even for a
fraction of a second, the “Crab Syndrome” rises and
puts the whole country on a retrograde. It is now more
than ever we need an Abraham Lincoln of Global magnitude. We need that Critical mass to take
the driver’s seat in moving all the “Hope”, the “Concept” and the “Ambassador” America.
Ryan Baidya, Ph.D., MBA
Pigmentation: Variable (high in summer and low in winter)
Genetic makeup: 0.0001% differential
Vocabulary: English and others
Need-based Grade: Medium (B-)