I Am Not A Slave - Tapa blanda

In our forever changing world, it is very important to be groundedand secured in the decisions we make today to ensure a happy,healthy and fruitful tomorrow. When the process of how onemakes decisions is controlled and manipulated, the decisionsthat the person makes is also controlled and manipulated; thisis what defines a slave. This book will give you a closer thanever look into some of the most self-destructive behaviors facedby many blacks throughout the world today because of injusticesof the past. It reveals why this adopted destructive culture hasbecome the norm within both the black and white communitiesalike. The facts inside will shed some light on the affects ofthe assimilation of blacks into the "white culture" after slaveryto the present. The statements, comments, and facts sharedhere are not meant to insight anger, hate, fear or violence. Itsintent is to enlighten, uplift, and help those who struggle andsuffer everyday, knowingly and unknowingly, to find purposeand meaning in a life that was, and is made harder for them. Ihope you enjoy the reading and may you find strength and hopein it.GOD BLESS!

I was born on the island of St.Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. I spent most of my childhood there with my mother, three sisters and step father. At the tender age of sixteen I left the island to live with my biological dad in Florida. I attended high school, and there is where I faced racism for the very first time. I witnessed black and white students calling each other racial names and fighting for seemingly nothing at all. It was the first time I realized that things weren't what they seemed to be on t.v portraying the free America I came to. Upon graduating from high school, I joined the U.S. Navy and was victim to racial name calling, innuendoes, profiling, stereotyping, career tampering and much, much more. What was most surprising was not the fact that I faced it from whites, but from blacks who felt that their place in life was the place the system gave them, which was almost always nothing and nowhere. After my military experience and travels I decided to attend college and obtain a degree in education. I decided on Florida A&M University in Tallahassee Florida because of its rich African American heritage and close location to the islands. In Tallahassee Florida I continued to face racism at extreme levels by not just the individual white community, but by law enforcement and the judicial system. Unfair punishments where constantly handed down to black students to hinder their opportunities of success in the future even with a degree. These continuing racially charged experiences led me to many realizations about our current civilization. I've written this book in hopes of somehow revealing truth. I truly hope this book enlightens and enhance life for those who are struggling to make sense of it. GOD BLESS.