SLAVES FOR SALE

African people did not come to this land seeking opportunity. They did not pack their belongings, say goodbye to their families, and step onto ships with dreams of a new beginning. They were stolen/kidnapped. Ripped from their homes, shackled in iron chains, and crammed into the bowels of slave ships where death was a mercy. They were dragged onto foreign soil, not as immigrants, but as captives, commodities, bodies to be broken, only to be owned for profit of white hands.

The legacy of that forced importation is not some distant past-it is a daily, living reminder of the brutality inflicted upon us. From the auction blocks to the cotton fields, from the Jim Crow laws to the prison system, the chains have only changed form. The suffering, the dehumanization, the attempts to erase our history, but our presence remain. Many white people want us out of sight and out of mind, buried beneath their guilt, ignored in their textbooks, erased from their narratives of "progress." They say, forget the past, but they never stop benefiting from it.

We refuse to disappear. We refuse to be silent. The blood of our ancestors cries out from the soil, demanding truth, demanding accountability. Our existence in this country is not a choice- it was a crime committed against us. And we will not let the world forget.