28 days-Pulling Out the Black Face
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When will there be more?Aren't you ready for growth? A change?
PULLING SCABS, SEEING BLACKFACE, MOVING AWAY FROM 28 DAYS. My feelings of Black History Month is to compare it to a scab over a deep wound. #beyondblackhistorymonth
The wound sits, healing and scabbing over for ten months, then comes January and Martin Luther King celebrations, the scab is picked at until its sore and parts of the wound is exposed. In February the scab is completely pulled off and the wound is open, and vulnerable for all to see and attack. Fiddled with, poked at until it is raw and bleeding. Everyone sees it, everyone feels the pain and yet no one can do anything to heal the wound or extinguish the burn from the tears and neglect. The reopening hurts more than the first cut because now more people are involved in the poking, pulling and exposing. The tiny cut has become a crater. At the end of February, it is left alone. The ohhs and ahhs are over and the wound is left to either fester and infect the souls of some or crust over and try to heal itself...until the next year. (READ WHAT'S BEING SAID ON THE BLOG Very interesting.
Purchase Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History.
