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When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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Is the Black Man Cursed?

LZ Granderson: What stirred in space-time or squirmed in gut microbial courtrooms when a Starbucks employee called the police on two black men who had committed no crime except to delay their orders? Do we chalk it up to hate, ignorance, wickedness as some religious folk back home might call it? Or some attitudinal issue, this sticky and bewildering refusal to grant other than white bodies their humanity? What about my melanin-rich body? Make some folks pucker up or wilt away in stereotypic fright? Who will love my children? Who willLove my stories?

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