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4c NY 205-8999 "Since we poor ‘oursed' Slaves weren't to Set anything on earth while we were alivc, we soon learned to expect it only after death, ‘up in the aky.' Therefore, this earth and ail its vast riches, which we ourselves originally owned, was left to the deceitful maneuverings of the white Christians, for them to buiid a heaven for THEMSELVES on earth while they yet live, "Such religious teachings were designed to make us feel Inferior to the white Christian Slave- master, and soon he was successful in making us fear him, obey him, and worship him, instead of the True Supreme Being, the God of our own foreparenta, Almignht ALLAH, "MESSENGER MUHAMMAD has taught us how we so-called Negroes eventuagly became like the beggar, lazarus, of the bible (Iruke 16:26): our condition became sickenang (very sore), We sat here amid the rubbish of the Western World, at the feet {or gates) ef the rich white Christians, begsing for something (civil rights} to fall from their table . . but from th.s sama Slavenaster whom our foreparents had made rich (by giving him freely of their slave labor for nearly 400 years .. . Gen 15:13), we received only the hardest and dirtest jobs at the lowest wages, the poorest houses in the slum areas at the highest rent, the poorest food and clothing at the highest prices, Our schodis were Ifke shacks, and were etaffed by teachers who knew . and could teach enly what tne Slavemaster dictated to them, * July 2b, 1907 “MESSENGER MUHAMMAD has taught us how we &o~called Negroes were KIDNAPPED from the East by the white Ch istiar. Slavemaster, brought to America in chains and robbed of our own religion, robbed o1 car own language, cokbed of our own eviture, robbed of our own God, robbed of our own flag, robbed of our own % \ . were . Som :. ee ete eet et eee ae eS St np Base eat SLRS nae Be a 1 ao Tal