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WHY DOES THIS QUOTE FROM MY BOOK ROUSE SUCH NEGATIVE REACTION?

The Negro left the plantation penniless, he had no land, no seeds, no livestock—and nowhere to go. Most slaves left the plantation with nothing but the raggedy clothes they were wearing… But by mere will, and strength, of the human excellence that G’d created in their humanity, even after being bred with inhumanity, the Negro forged ahead. As an outcast, the Negro managed to survive with all odds against him. He trusted G’d and managed to work, even past the crimes of sharecropping horrors, to acquire patches of land, grow crops to feed himself and his family—and to sale. Despite the hatred of cultural racism against him, The Negro established thriving business and prosperous communities like Rosewood in Florida and Black Wall Street in Oklahoma, in the midst of a land run by illegal immigrants who even burned these thriving and prosperous Black Communities down... excerpt from Thawed Writings of Amin Falaq: THE SURVIVAL OF THE U.S NEGRO http://www.amazon.com/THAWED-WRITNGS-AMIN-FALAQ-Falaq-ebook/dp/B00AALSJ20/ref=la_B00A7904IW_1_5?

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