Status Updates From The Day God Saw Me as Black

“I’m glad to know that the last of you is not the best of you.”

Already starting off sooo good. The poem in the first chapter literally took every feeling I have and put it straight into words.

I haven’t read a book THIS good in a minute. The way I relate & empathize so well to the story is un-real.

Meh.

“To create inequity, you must either convince someone that they’re inferior or create rules that codify them as being less than you.”

“Religion and capitalism aren’t strange bedfellows.”

“‘When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.’ - Desmond Tutu”

“…I know that beneath this agape love was religious dogma rooted in patriarchy that held women and femmes responsible for the uncontrolled lust of men…”