did this, will spread abroad the fame of your royal nobility. The same punishment is due to him who robbed me of the pearls, and to him who infringed my rights as admiral. Very great will be your merit, fame without parallel will be yours, if you do this, and there will remain in Spain a glorious memory of Your Highnesses, as grateful and just princes. The pure devotion which I have ever borne to the service of Your Highnesses, and the unmerited wrong that I have suffered, will not permit me to remain silent, although I would fain do so; I pray Your highnesses to pardon me. I am so ruined as I have said; hitherto I have wept for others; now, Heaven have mercy upon me, and may the earth weep for me. Of worldly goods, I have not even a blanca for an offering in spiritual things. Here in the Indies I have become careless of the prescribed forms of religion. Alone in my trouble, sick. in daily expectation of death. and encompassed
is my people who have allowed these buccaneers to come into Africa and given them whatever they want; I accuse my African-American brothers and sisters of marginalizing me, when in fact I have not reached out to them and sometimes have exhibited a rather superiority attitude towards them; and many a time, I have successively accused my own people of pulling me down, when all I am trying to do is to get more recognition, merited or unmerited. As I said earlier, I make no apologies to anyone. The only way the African race can regain their economic power is through recognizing the crimes they have committed against the race and accept the pain and punishment necessary to teach us a lesson that the time has come to stop our stupid indulgence. Today, the New York Taxi business is totally in the hands of Indians and their brothers from Pakistanis.
annaabi.ee 
