Wk. 25, Book 25: the Post-Massacre Black Blues Book

this series has been interrupted by an unnatural act of inhuman nature. that massacre last week in South Carolina is taking me places i don't want to go, but must visit if i am to be of service to humanity at this time and to stand as cause for the restoration of peace and SANITY on Earth.

i can't stop crying 'cause i got dem ol' black blues.

i didn't feel like writing about the book i made earlier last week to post for Week 25. instead, today i made a new book, a simple 4-page accordion fold with identical black leather covers trimmed in black and white paper.

the text on this page states: We came, though not freely; we suffered; we slaved; we endured; we sacrificed, that is, made sacred our bodies; we repeat history. Mr. Obama, please end white terrorism in the U.S. against Black people once and for all, if you will, if you can.

i can forgive the murderer as i can forgive any sick being; forgiving the cause for the murders--racism--is another thing. i'm just not there yet any more than i can wrap my mind around massacres that occur in places of worship. and what does that mean, for real? 

my dear friend and fellow peace walker Audri Scott Williams says: "We as a nation must address the deep systemic presence of racism alive and well in our society. This deep rooted racism has the potential to destroy America at its very core. We must rise to meet this paradigm shifting moment with deliberate truth and extraordinary, COURAGEOUS leadership."

  RIP (from top left) Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Depayne Middletown Doctor, Ethel Lance,  Tywanza Sanders, Susie Jackson, Myra Thompson & Rev. Dr. Daniel Simmons, Sr.