You Can’t Outdo Black People
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Hey y’all
It’s February and here in the States it’s officially Black History Month. Or African-American history month if you prefer. Either way, we’re rooting for everybody Black this month. Well, every month really, but we’re going extra hard for the next 28 days.
When I sit and reflect on my life as a Black woman in America, and as a Black woman of the Caribbean diaspora, I am awed, inspired and feel truly blessed. As a people, we have survived all manner of indecencies and atrocities. For hundreds of years, we have been the target of global power systems, expressly designed to grind us into the dust.
Slavery, Colonization, Jim Crow, Segregation, Apartheid, Colorism, Gentrification and on. Yet still, we rise.
It is this unbreakable spirit, this innate ability to turn our pain into triumph that I salute and celebrate this month. Our feature articles, A Word on Wakanda and What’s in a (Black Twitter) Name? explore the creativity with which we have transformed the mundane into the amazing and turned our erasure into a global phenomena unable to be ignored. I encourage each of you, my friendly neighborhood hyphens reflect on our history, revel in the strides we are presently making, and celebrate our people’s creativity, ingenuity and incredibly bright future.
When you miss me, I gone!
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