Is It Better to Live Under White Supremacy Than Not?

If you are happy and prospering in destination cities, by all means, stay. But if that is not your lived experience, there is another option that is not only violable, but desirable. As frederick douglas once wrote, escaping slavery, i prayed for twenty years, but received no answer until i prayed with my legs. Black people must pray with their legs. We need pace to reverse the absorption of white anxiety into our flesh,. Their fear of us, contempt of us, disdain for us. The black story must be much more than slavery, oppression and poverty. It must be so much bigger than the part of our literature white america chooses to reward stories wrapped around...