7,867 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Badges: Abibitumi Mbôngi

Rank: Onímẹ́rindínlógún

A Different Image
by Dudley Randall

The age
requires this task:
create
a different image;
re-animate
the mask.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrel’s burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.

From The Black Poets

Interpretation: Reinvent ourstory with a new image, not the ones that focus on slavery, Jim Crow, etc, but ourstory before the maafa as inventors, artists, royalty, scholars, everyday family people, etc.