Personal Narrative: Land Of Freedom

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Imagine living in a world where you are seen as trash or are disparaged against, your people are being tormented not because of a crime or a horrific action taken by ancestry but because of a physical attribute. This is what the African Americans went through for almost 250 years therefore we are supposed to just accept what the so called land of freedom made of our ancestors, and bask in the glory of America on its day of independence. I find this difficult, for if not the actions taken by the African Americans, and pro freedom whites, we would still be in slavery to this day. In all of the Americas history a mass outbreak of slavery has happened twice and each time the vaccine took years to bring any sign of change. First it was

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