I had wanted to write something about fairies. Uhm until I hit search for fairy pictures and saw all of them are white. Black people where are our magical and beautiful mystical creatures? Not the scary crap we grew up with, mainly tokoloshe and Pinky Pinky? That tormented the nights and dreams of many of our children.
Where are our mystical creatures that stand for our good an our protection. The ones that lay awake at night to watch us sleep. Do we not have a sweet and beautiful colorful imaginations? We do cause I do and I am pretty sure there are others like me out there.
Stories of Pirates, white people have a way of making thieves like Pirates sound so amazing. Their tales and their travels so fascinating. We have seas at our steps as well. African people, where are our pirates who conquered the seas? Where are the illustrations of what we hope they were or know they were?
In essence the real question we have arrived to is, where is our imagination as a people?
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