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The Art of Making Yourself Invisible Paragraphs 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

I read in an article in USA Today that there is a theory that people originated in Africa. The article said that black people’s noses are short because there is warm, moist air in Africa and the air doesn’t need to be warmed much before it reaches the lungs. White people’s noses are long and thin because there is cool, dry air in Europe and the nose has to warm the air before it reaches the lungs. The air has to be warm before it reaches the lungs. It said the distance to the Sun at the equator is closer to the Sun than the distance to the Sun at the poles. That is why black people have black skin and white people have white skin. The people at the equator get more sun than the people close to the poles. This makes their skin darker. The people close to the poles get less sun and that is why they are white. The article said you get vitamin D from the Sun. People in Africa get lots of vitamin D and their skin turns black from the vitamin D, this also cut down on the amount of vitamin D they get. People in Europe don’t get a lot of sun and their skin is white and they can absorb a lot of vitamin D.


It is not a black race or a white race. We are the human race.


My Grandpa had a farm. He sold the farm and bought a house. He had enough money to send me to college. African-American children didn’t get that. They didn’t get help with their education. Lots of black people don’t have anything handed down to them from inheritance since the times of slavery. They don’t have inheritance handed down through the family. They don’t have inheritance for money for college. Teach the children the history of slavery so that it doesn’t happen again. The children will make friends. Affirmative action should be put back on the books. It has been taken off the books in some states. Black people do not have the jobs to pay the money to send their children to a good college. White people have the jobs to pay the money to send their children to a good college and their children get good jobs. Black people should be able to get the good jobs so that they can have the money to send their children to a good college to get good jobs.


There is an argument about the politically correct term African-American and black, and which one should be used. African-American is the correct term to use just like European-American is the correct term to use. You can also use black because African-American takes so long to say. It is friendly just like white is friendly. The African-American nation is bringing a strong wisdom to the rest of the world. They are teaching the rest of the world not to abuse. They were abused as slaves. They have suffered a lot of abuse. And people who were abused don’t want to abuse anyone else. We teach the children the history of the abuse of slavery and they learn not to have racism or prejudice. The African-American nation was abused and they are teaching the rest of the world not to abuse. I watched a PBS series, Africans in America, and it had Thomas Jefferson in it. Thomas Jefferson was the President of the United States of America. It had some of his writings. Thomas Jefferson picked money over love, love for people, when he could have shown love and he could have let the slaves go. Thomas Jefferson wasn’t freeing them from slavery as President, but he could have freed them from his farm. He picked to keep the slaves and make money. He could have shown love to the slaves and freed them. Some white women were nice during the times of slavery.


An African Poem

The rape of Africa

The abusive childhood of slavery

The difficult teenagerhood of the civil rights era

And hoping for a happy young adulthood


I watched a PBS special about Dorrinda on T. V. Dorrinda said, “Black people helped build America. Dorrinda talked about all the things black people did to help build America. I read something in the newspaper about how white people have two cars in their driveway and black people only have one car. Some black people don’t even have a car. Gregory Hines said on the T. V. that most black people in high school fill in the blank with “I am black” not “I am an ice skater.” That really gives you a feeling of black people’s sense of identity. When I was in high school the big problems were someone said, “Yeah, he’s black but he’s cool” and someone said, “You may say your my friend, but that doesn’t mean you are not prejudice.” Someone doesn’t like black people but he likes one black guy. Someone has one white friend but he thinks his white friend is prejudice. Black and white people are trying to make friends. The white guy is making friends with black people but he doesn’t know that many black people. The black guy has a white friend, but his white doesn’t have any other black friends, and he thinks he is prejudice against him. After you get to know people you can make friends. It just takes time to make friends.


Oprah Winfrey said on the T. V., “Black people are 13% of the American population.” Some white people were brought over to America as indentured servants. They had to work for no money and were let go with a little bit of money like slaves. This is like slavery. Some slaves were given a little bit of money or a piece of land when they were let go. Europe dumped their jails into America. Europe also ran the slave trade. My family may have been brought over as indentured servants. I was reading a book in the basement. We are related to the Wades and the book said that Wada was changed to Wade in America and that some Wada’s were brought over as indentured servants. If you didn’t have enough money to travel to America, you could come over as an indentured servant. Someone had wrote down next to the slaves name in the slave book Niger. And the slave was from Niger. Someone read it and pronounced it wrong. Someone spelled the pronunciation and spelled it nigger. That is where nigger came from. Nigger is used to insult black people in America. Negro is the Spanish word for black.




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