By J.D. Koikoibo
DRAPETOMANIA* We have no desire to stay in this your plantation of modified minds; our desire is to cause disorder in the order of your faux Deity the cornrow of our hearts will lead us home and the seeds planted before you shipped us across several seas will sprout and feed the unborn seedlings Fingers, unlocked from those of Fear Mental chains, succumb to the pull of umbilical cord and placenta planted in the holy place Call us madmen as we walk home with the Great Spirit We have no desire to return to the slavery of your Deity; we are home with our people making threads of our hearts to sew the loose fabric of Love. *In 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized that Drapetomania was a (falsely) supposed mental illness as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. Cartwright said the Deity's will was to make the negro "the submissive knee-bender" to white slave masters.
Dieworimene Koikoibo writes by the riverside.
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