Equity – Adewale Sobowale
Every life does matter;
When we assume only black lives matter,
aren’t we burying ourselves in an abyss of no return?
Aren’t we sinking to the low of the colonizers?
Who were inhuman to our forbears in exporting them,
unwillingly like chattels to their plantations?
I can feel our pains
I can feel our trauma
arising from over four centuries of slavery
when over fifteen million men,
women and children
were savagely kidnapped
and taken across the Atlantic
Many died on the way
Many were raped
So many were maimed
Those who got to the West
were sold like commodities of little value
The suffering continued
They were made to work wagelessly
In summer, spring, fall and especially winter!
Have you ever wondered
how unwell they were dressed in winter?
That’s if they were dressed at all!
It was total inhumanity of man to his fellow man
If we should think of the bite of a tsetse fly
Our bodies we’ll scratch to bare bones
Let’s ask for reparations
And equity
Everyone should be treated like humans
We should be colour blind
Since:
All MEN are equal!
