Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges.

We Have Inherited A Fear Of Memories Of Slavery. It Is As If To Remember And Acknowledge Slavery Would Amount To Our Being Consumed By It. As A Matter Of Fact, In The Popular Black Imagination, It Is Easier For Us To Construct Ourselves As Children Of Africa, As The Sons And Daughters Of Kings And Queens, And Thereby Ignore The Middle Passage And Centuries Of Enforced Servitude In The Americas. Although Some Of Us Might Indeed Be The Descendants Of African Royalty, Most Of Us Are Probably Descendants Of Their Subjects, The Daughters And Sons Of African Peasants Or Workers.

Had It Not Been For Slavery, The Death Penalty Would Have Likely Been Abolished In America. Slavery Became A Haven For The Death Penalty.

I Do Think It's Extremely Important To Acknowledge The Gains That Were Made By The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Power Movement.institutional Transformations Happened Directly As A Result Of The Movements That People, Unnamed People, Organized And Gave Their Lives To.

We Can't Talk About The Black Community. It's No Longer A Homogeneous Community; It Was Never A Homogeneous Community.

We Have To Talk About Liberating Minds As Well As Liberating Society.