Mnca.

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Slave gravesite in New York City

“SOMETHING YOUR TOUR GUIDE MIGHT NOT TELL YOU:
The heart of NYC’s Financial District is built on a huge 18th century African Burial Ground. Some 419 Africans were discovered in 1991, a large portion women and children.
The burial ground extends from Broadway Southward under City Hall, and almost to the site of the former World Trade Center. It is believed that there are as many as 20,000 slavery-era Africans in graves under the buildings in Lower Manhattan.
Abolish historical amnesia and ponder for a moment the fact that this financial epicenter of the world is built on slavery, oppression, and death.”
Literally, and daily.

yo. that last sentence hits you in the face like a brick.

I’m waiting for all of that ancestral rage to manifest now. I have to go down and pour libations or something because now I can’t see this and just breeze through NYC.
Sigh.

Not an old photo, but definitely relevant.

I know that without you
is something that I could never do -Saosin,Seven Years (via mindsetfrancaise)

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