When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Politics of Racism
In one of the New World colonies, Africans were deemed more civilized than the Irish. The politics of racial segregation harks back to these twilight moments. But still I wonder, why does racism exist? Why were black bodies in West Africa sold to seafaring traders from America? Did a whip-bearer not see the humanity in the eyes of those whose back seat embroidered with scars and death? did their stories not bleed out to query his fury?
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