Status Updates From The Panther and the Lash

So funny to read “The Backlash Blues” because I’m just hearing in my head a specific live performance of Nina Simone singing it

Justice

That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.

… finding parallels with my other current read Invisible Man

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i have had this book for over a year i think and i just picked it back up. i read from page 12-30 today. heavy stuff but so fitting for articles ive read today and mlk day and the world this moment