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February 19, 2018February 1, 2019Atieno Otieno

To My Afrikan-in-America Comrade

There are power in words You are not a descendant of slaves You do not ascend from slavery You are a descendant of free people who were enslaved To stop your lineage at the point of disruption is to ignore the continuity of life that persisted through trauma and social death

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It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

-Steve Biko

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