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This article is dedicated to my youngest daughter, Keeter Harper. Keeter struggled to make ends meet with her six children and husband. She did what I and a lot of black families don’t do, she stuck with her husband. She didn’t use any mind-changing chemicals or drink. Keeter passed on to the next life on Jan. 18, 2013. Now she’s with her Lord.

President Obama, where’s our 40 acres and mule? While you and your so-called lawmakers are so busy murdering people in other countries around the world, there are people right here in your own backyard slowly being starved. Your CIA and people of high influence pump drugs and guns into our hoods and daily drain us of life, dignity and self-respect. But we have a God that tells us the same thing He told us when Cain killed Abel: Leave them to me and hold on.

If we only had what your racist, corrupt government owed us, we wouldn’t need you. How can I call myself an African-American when I don‘t know about any ancestor or village I can claim  my heritage with. I can claim my heritage right here, born in slavery on some plantation, suffering crimes against humanity.

When will the United States be tried for her crimes against humanity as she brings everybody else to justice? One day your own daughters will rise up and understand what their father had a chance to do but didn’t. Our problem is so easy to solve. Why is America so afraid of its black citizens? Thank you.

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