The Revolutionary Act of Black Love

By Alexis Taylor Word In Black

“My eye soon caught her precious face, but, gracious heavens! at glance of agony may God spare me from ever again enduring! My wife, under the in uence of her feelings, jumped aside; I seized hold of her hand while my mind felt unutterable things, and my tongue was only able to say, we shall meet in heaven!” e good news is that we overcame past e orts at segregation and Jim Crow laws. With the knowledge, education and skills we now have at our disposal, we, the Black People of this country, born with rights of equality guaranteed under the Constitution, will neither abandon those rights nor have them taken from us. If we look at Black History everyday, we will recognize the revised e orts to suppress or eliminate us and we will prevail.

While we celebrate Black History month, and hopefully the resurgence of a study and appreciation for Black History, it’s important that we use our knowledge of past e orts to suppress or erase us to fuel our present desire to do more and go further, collectively, than those who came before us. Whatever title the racist put on “Voter Suppression”, and the battle against “Critical Race eory” - which most can’t spell or de ne - we must recognize all e orts to curtail our freedom or to create a new legal “White Zone”, as the Mississippi legislature is attempting to do, all amount to “Jim Crow” e orts under new names and titles.