part i
In
the light of this summer (the massacre of nine black people in a church in
Charleston, the burning of more black churches, Sandra Bland now wrongly arrested
and found hanged in her cell, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book), and at my father’s
urging, I want to reflect on my months of respite from American race politics: I
came to this place to recover myself.
black folk
always be leavin the segregated states of amerikkka – to free themselves, find
themselves.
