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Nigger Profanization Characterized.

Look close.  Theme: Reproduction on this 'Earth'.  Seen?  Nigger Profanziation (the era of time in which we currently li.fe) as the descendant of Nigger Colonization/Profanization, as the grand descendant of Nigger Slavery (comprising the Epoch of "Ma'afa"), as the great great descendant of a deeper, older idea:

(Wikipedia:) Margaret Garner (called Peggy) was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious – or celebrated – for killing her own daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery. She and her family had escaped in January 1856 across the frozen Ohio River to Cincinnati, but they were apprehended by U. S. Marshals acting under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Margaret Garner's defense attorney moved to have her tried for murder in Ohio, to be able to get a trial in a free stateand to challenge the Fugitive Slave Law as well.  Her story was the inspiration for the novel Beloved (1987) by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey, as well as for her libretto for the early 21st century opera Margaret Garner (2005), composed by Richard Danielpour.

  

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Remembrance has not escaped us. Trapped now in our smallest self, we, repositories of the remembrance of the way violated…that is our vocation to find…our healing self, we the black people…The remembrance is of a harsh time, horrid, filled with pains…It was left to the women to begin the work of the healing…”
—Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons

Ships Cut Off on the African Coast

p. 136, If We Must Die, by Eric Robert Taylor

How much went unwritten?  How much resistance at the point of contact?  Before the kings and queens of Europe's ships left Africa, how many of us returned traumatic violence with superior wits, courage & physical power?  And how many of those successfully returned home?  They say we had few successful slave revolts (Ayti* and Palmares and other cuba/jamaica Maroons among the top).  But it is these revolts, they are the top (in effectiveness).  These Africans decided (one way or another) to forgo the passage into the Ma'afa altogether.  Trace the genealogy from there of black resistance.  It's modifications into:the pen of Prince Hall and the brothers in newly independent Massachusetts (stolenwealth of) through the speeches of Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey through to the ministry of Martin Luther King Jr.

*idren love ayti, kouzen mwen.  their opening the door & STOP of openpresision actually for a time reversed the poles on the earth at that time.  but they should have built ships and sailed to france and thrashed yt supremacy there at it's root, then on to england and so like...

America Passage

Middle Passage

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history

The dark ships move, the dark ships move,

Their bright ironical names

Like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth . . . 

Weave toward New World littorals that are m

Mirage and myth and actual shore.

Voyage through death, 

Voyage whose chartings are unlove.

A charnel stench, effluvium of living death

Spreads outward from the hold,

Where the living and the dead, the horribly dying,

Lie interlocked, lie foul with blood and excrement...

But, oh, the living look at you

With human eyes whose suffering accuses you,

Whose hatred reaches through the swill of dark

To strike you like a leper's claw.

You cannot stare that hatred down

Or chain the fear that stalks the watches

And breathes on you its fetid scorching breath;

Cannot kill the deep immortal human wish,

The timeless will.

~Robert Hayden

Skin Bleach - Old Form of Impossibility

"It is the myth of scientific objectivity that allows Europeans to speak for all of us."
~Marimba Ani, Yurugu

Nah, You Can Keep It.

Nah, You Can Keep It.
You can only say "I'm sorry" so many times before it loses any meaning.

Y'all know the United States Senate has decided to "apologize" for what happened during slavery. I guess I should say "Thank you."

Nah, screw it.

What do I care about an apology? Black folks have been getting these apologies for years now, and it doesn't seem to do much good. The legacy of slavery can't be wiped away by an "I'm sorry." It's going to take a lot more than mere words.

And that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

Hell, even the apology was poorly done. The way it's worded it doesn't actually blame anybody for effing up. It just says "Oh, we're sorry about what happened to you people, tough luck." Then it makes sure to say that the apology in no way endorses the idea of reparations. It's like they tried to figure the easiest way to get credit for an apology without having to actually admit to anything. Lovely.

This apology became yet another reason for the Chicken Little white folks to complain about how everybody is always bowing down to black folks. It didn't matter that the apology provided no benefits to black folks and only acknowledged what we already knew. Nope, apparently anything that says that slavery was wrong is dangerous because all it will do is encourage the Negroes to complain some more.

It never stops.

I'd rather not have an apology. I'd rather folks just go about their business than make a half-hearted attempt to appease me. It just makes my job harder when I'm trying to expose the realities of life to people in the future.

I was always taught that repentance must be melded with a change in behavior for it to be valid. It doesn't matter how many times folks "apologize" for what was done to black folks, it only matter when people get committed to rectifying the problems created by slavery. Until then, I'm cool on hearing "I'm sorry."

They can keep it.

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For Ryan Moats in that Moment

President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (with Robinson) after the U.S. gov't kidnapped him & took him to Antigua and then CAR.

"I tried to love America, its places, its well-ordered marrow, its surplus appurtenance. But I could not love a place. I could not love things. No one in good health can. Imagine a world of material wealth devoid of people. What's to love? Nothing.

I tried to love America but America would not love the ancient, full African whole of me. Thus I could not love America. I had come to know too much of her work. ...Then I stopped trying to love America. I have not despaired the moment."

~Randall Robinson, Quitting America, 2004

"For the Negro, pure and simple, there is no country but Africa, and in America his deeper instincts tell him so. He will never be understood, nor will he ever understand his European guide and teacher, as long as he remains in the countries of his exile. He is often misled by the overflowing and ceaseless generosity of white men* into a belief that his benefactors are getting nearer to the idea of practical oneness and brotherhood with him. But among the phenomena in the relations of the white man to the Negro in the house of bondage none has been more curious than this: that the white man, under a keen sense of the wrongs done to the Negro, will work for him, will suffer for him, will fight for him, will even die for him, but he cannot get rid of a secret contempt for him."

~Edward Wilmot Blyden, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race 1887

*["hey, obama ... is."]

Ve mphi ven ze ve ghah! ( the dead are speaking).

John newton credited with the 'write' of 'Amazing Grace' but song, is 'unknown'. Little did he know that the now dead were just using him to tell about thier ordeal in the slave ships. Listen (if you listen quietly).

Matongteh bro. Tifah, matongteh.