RESILIENCE

RESILIENCE BY YUSUF CHASA

Kidnapped...Chained and arranged tightly together beneath the deck of ship sailing across the Atlantic.

Rain and cold take turn entertaining your bones.

Conditions were inhumane, barbaric but you were not important enough to be considered human.

Your skin was as dark as the rich and fertile soil of you continent, Africa.

Pride and honor drove many of you to suicide, choosing death rather than living in captivity.

The strongest of you were beaten repeatedly and starved until broken.

Reprogrammed you to forsake your kind and worship them.

Kept you divided and rewarded you for obedience and cooperation whenever you turned or speak against your own.

Ripped you of independence and dignity, leaving your desolate and totally dependent.

Took away your ability to think by educating you just enough...

Taught you their way of life because it is civil and the custom and culture of your fatherland were condemned because it was considered barbaric and primitive.

They implemented the Black Code and Jim Crow but hundreds of years through, you persisted, thrived and fought relentlessly.

When they realized that you were too strong and will someday prevail, they went back to the table to plan and improvised a new way to keep you enslaved...

They offer you an illusion of your desire and taught you how to say “I AM FREE”, like giving a caged dog a bone. The bone keeps him busy and he forget he’s still caged.

You fought their wars thinking they might consider you equal or maybe even extend some dignity. Your fathers, brothers and sons died thinking they have won freedom for you.

21st Century came and with technology and information upgrade, They improvised and designed a Police State with laws against only your kind. Now killing you is legal, this is your future.....