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Monday, June 22, 2009

Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Beautiful Eyes - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Beautiful Eyes - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Atlantic 17 Jun 2009 10:20 am
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Of the many reckonings that black people of honest political consciousness must endure, the appointment with black slavery is the most agonizing. I don't mean the appointment with the notion of white people as the enslavers of our ancestors, but the appointment with our African ancestors as brokers.

I think, when you're in your intellectual infancy, myth keeps your sane. When I was young I believed, like a lot of us at that time, that my people had been kidnapped out of Africa by malicious racist whites. Said whites then turned and subjugated and colonized the cradle of all men. It was a comforting thought which placed me and mine at the center of a grand heroic odyssey. We were deposed kings and queens robbed of our rightful throne by acquisitive merchants of human flesh. By that measures we were not victims, but deposed nobles--in fact and in spirit.

Read her entire essay here: Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Beautiful Eyes - Ta-Nehisi Coates