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Websterville, California 90265

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

الإخوان المسلمين السلام عليكم

AS-SALAAMU ‘ALAIKUM, BELOVED SISTERS & BROTHERS!

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As you may or may not know, I have taken up residence in Malibu, California.
I love it. There is definitely no place on earth or in the heavens above the earth that I would rather live.

However, sometimes, it can be a little detached…

Every year the fifth graders at Webster Elementary (which is directly affiliated with some church, but low key) constructs a fictional antebellum city – “Websterville, USA” – as part of an immersive and interactive history lesson.

I didn’t attend (…still fighting “suburbitis”) but I read about it in the paper.
I had one problem with the production as illustrated in the letter to the editor below. I am publishing it here, since it was noticeably absent from the next week’s edition of the paper and the edition after that and the edition after that… :/
However, I had an EXCELLENT teacher, Our Beloved Messenger, The Honourable Elijah Muhammad (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah Forever Be Upon Him) who taught me to do for self, so that I would not have to rely on my enemy… Hence, MY own publication… Happy Reading!

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum (Peace Be Upon You!)

I pray Allah, this letter reaches you in the Best of Health and Happiness. I am happy to write that I am the same. I thank Allah!

Perhaps this letter should be directed to the administrators at Webster Elementary, but since I read it in your paper, I am directing this missive to you.

I read the article with some apprehension, my gut warning me something was going to be wrong, since I read the teaser in last week’s paper.

Sure enough, I couldn’t help but wonder, after reading the little tobacco farmer’s statement concerning his whopping profit, who picked all that tobacco???

 

This, after I noticed there did not appear to be any tobacco pickers in “Websterville.”

If my knowledge of American History is correct, and I know that it is, there was an abundance of “tobacco pickers” in Websterville, USA 1776. Why were they noticeably absent from the fifth graders???

I didn’t see any in the pictures. 

Maybe the photographer missed them, because they were definitely there. I mean somebody had to plow, plant, and pick all those hogshead barrells full of tobacco, right? 

Right…

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

السلام عليكم

❤WADOODAH❤
29160 Heathercliff Road
Malibu, CA 90265-4046
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(A parent with one of the teachers :/ )
The above photos of the participants must be why there were no tobacco pickers… :/
However, the whiteman has never had a problem “blackening up”
for his productions before…
Here is one of Santa Monica’s most famous residents-
Shirley Temple-Black.
(You can click on the picture if you want to read the article they published. :/ )
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LAST TIME THAT I CHECC’D,
TOBACCO PICKERS LOOK MORE LIKE THIS…
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OR EVEN THIS!!!
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AS-SALAAMU ‘ALAIKUM, BLACK PEOPLE

What do you think?