Never not left unwritten
by Onyeka C. Arah
Sometimes late, but always a letter
Better to write than be left unremembered
Never no words in press or prose
They lumped themselves together when they first got here.
We didn’t do anything.
They banded together as a superior group as compared to the Native Americans that they encountered upon arrival as well as the Africans that they shipped to North America, in order to justify the obvious contradictions…
I completely understand what you are saying here, as I have a ten-year-old brother who almost always has his shirt tucked in and wears a belt, thanks to my mother’s careful guidance. However, I just wanted to evoke a token we have hopefully gleaned by now. That is to say, no matter how respectable, a black body seems to be little more than that in…