WILFUL AND WICKED ACTS
Wilfully, you forcibly kidnapped Blacks and brought Blacks to your shores.
Forcibly, you enslaved Blacks and forced Blacks to perform unpaid labor.
Wilfully, you hung Black resistors on trees and incinerated their remains.
Forcibly you raped Blacks to increase the number of enslaved Blacks.
Wilfully, you used Black bodies for unethical medical experiments.
Forcibly you ejected Blacks from their property to build roads.
Wilfully, you imposed harsh and inhuman conditions on Blacks.
Forcibly, you disenfranchised Blacks and segregated Blacks in slums by redlining.
Wilfully, you are withdrawing their hard-earned Black civil rights and freedoms by wilful incarceration.
Are these wicked and wilful acts by humans on humans or wicked and wilful acts by animals on humans?
Ama Ndlovu explores the connections of culture, ecology, and imagination.
Her work combines ancestral knowledge with visions of the planetary future, examining how Black perspectives can transform how we see our world and what lies ahead.
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