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Book Review: Negroes With Guns

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I have I learn something from reading these books, I think I gain some things from the which is knowledge knowing what’s righteous and wrong as human being in this world, we all human being going to through all of different in life and how can I use this in my aspect of life ideas. Like for example how in the book Negroes with Guns, I think it was would definitionately be hard for myself to put my foot in their shoes and I don’t have think it was not be cool to keep you’re cool inside since you’re joining to be solider and they don’t have all of the supplies for the soldier’s to wear it’s in the middle raining season but I would not appreciate what they’re doing is very wrong of them. I don’t remember but I think one of the solider had got

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