Flagged - Words in Exile: Entry 1
👍🏻. I’ll say it with you, BLACK.
Four of my grandchildren are mixed race.
The white world sees them as BLACK.
They may ban the word, but they still use it to ban the child.
Yes. They ban the word, but never their own violence. What they name or erase changes nothing of what they keep alive- what they pass down, teaching their blood to see through the same vile lens.
I know. I know.
Black as night
Right-left feathers flee
The wind paints
Letters on walls
Brush birds
strokes song freedom
Sings.
👍🏻. I’ll say it with you, BLACK.
Four of my grandchildren are mixed race.
The white world sees them as BLACK.
They may ban the word, but they still use it to ban the child.
Yes. They ban the word, but never their own violence. What they name or erase changes nothing of what they keep alive- what they pass down, teaching their blood to see through the same vile lens.
I know. I know.
Black as night
Right-left feathers flee
The wind paints
Letters on walls
Brush birds
strokes song freedom
Sings.