Jada Ferguson
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George Junius Stinney Jr.
George Junius Stinney Jr. is the youngest person in United States history to be executed, at the age of 14. I cannot remember what I was reading when I saw his picture for the first time. I know that the fact that the state of South Carolina electrocuted a 14-year-old child made the food I had eaten try to leave my body. There are certain certainties life drills into your mindset and America’s “justice system” (like many other fixtures in America) not classifying Black Americans as qualifiers for fair treatment is one of them. This was perhaps more blatant in 1944 but do not be brainwashed into believing that we have overturned that system. A system set in steel, encased in metal, grander than the Great Wall of China, and sturdier than the wall that tumbled in Berlin.
By Jada Ferguson5 years ago in Criminal
The Gem-In-I
I LOVE MY BIRTHDAY. There is no plainer way to say it. The numbers flow beautifully when you say them. Admittedly I love my birthday in a child-like way. I have no shame in that fact. I have indoctrinated myself to hold dear anything synonymous with 5/25.
By Jada Ferguson5 years ago in Futurism
Too Much Greatness to Name but here are some ...
Sade. Billie Holiday. Solange. Mahalia Jackson. Mariah Carey. Rihanna. Missy Elliot. Marian Anderson. Beyonce. Eartha Kitt. Lauryn Hill. Josephine Baker. Nina Simone. Mary J. Blige. Diana Ross. Queen Latifah. Whitney Houston.
By Jada Ferguson5 years ago in Beat
The Mixtape for the Masochist who Loves Love and is Trying to Love on Themselves More
I took that picture a couple months into quarantine walking home from work when I was holding onto a not-so-thought-out goal of finding love in a pandemic. (To be completely honest, I took the photo in September but the explanation of my sentiment early on in quarantine life is accurate.) I even went as far to make the claim that February 14, 2021 would be my first year having a Valentine. Grandiose dramatic proclamations that I have pledged to stop making. I am sitting here on the aforementioned world-renowned date typing this so your educational guess about my relationship status is accurate. Also the subtitle is exposing my reality in plain sight.
By Jada Ferguson5 years ago in Beat
"It"
“It” gathered around my flesh as if I submerged myself in the pool that awaits the powerful fall of the water. The “it” we spend our conscious and sub conscious mind trying to acquire. “It” is a multitude of simplicities we weave into an overwhelming tarp of complexities that constrict us.
By Jada Ferguson5 years ago in Psyche
