Immortality Dominicca Washington
“I arrived on the day that Fred Hampton died / Real niggas just multiply / They said by 21 I was supposed to die / So I’m out here celebrating my post demise” — Jay-Z Evil doesn’t sleep. The God that they claim to serve tells us in his bible that people lie in their beds plotting evil. Old people and rockstars say that there is no rest for the wicked which rings true if at all times the wicked are plotting the demise of the righteous… of the ordained. African Americans have died for the sins of this country many times at the will of wicked men and resurrected much to their dismay. One of my favorite rappers employed the essence of this immortality by saying “I’ll kill you commit suicide and kill you again.” When I look at this audacity to defy death it immediately takes me to the frustration of white supremacists with the African American. What they didn’t realize early on was that by robbing the African Americans of their identity early on they triggered a god-like transcendence of black identity, it doesn’t live in the body, it lives in the soul giving them the advantage of immortality.
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