Recipe for Liberation

1. Oppression
2. Knowledge
3. Resilience
4. Compassionate Action
5. Justice

Be born 

Black and whole

see that you were never meant

to be a citizen*

Know that you are human

And whole and holy

Like every bright and shining thing on this planet

Living and inanimate

From this place of knowing

From this place of loving

Move

 

*see Dred Scott case – According to the US Constitution under citizen provisions, citizenship does not apply to freed slaves