Powerful words you have here. I will be using this words forever. Thank you

It’s time for us to stop singing along — to Formation, to Kendrick Lamar’s Alright, to any song that has the N-word or celebrates blackness in a way we will never understand. Our ancestors signed away that right when they signed their names to contracts that said they owned human beings, or signed tabs in restaurants that didn’t allow “colored people.” If your ancestors were abolitionists or civil rights protestors you knew these things a long time ago, but for the rest of us, our people were either active racists or passive enablers, a pitiful legacy if ever there was one.

Formation Doesn’t Include Me — And That’s Just Fine

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Kate Forristall

Bisi Alimi

1 min readFeb 8, 2016

Powerful words you have here. I will be using this words forever. Thank you

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