Kelsey Ogbewe
Sep 26, 2021

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Stephen, your arguments lack even a basic understanding of how systems of policing operate in America. You seem obtuse in your views of the Black American plight. I suggest reading the works of and listening to speeches from Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, WEB DuBois, Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and more for context. Then maybe move on to the works of Tommy J. Curry, Derrick Bell, Frank B. Wilderson III, and Ta Nehisi Coates. Shoot, listen to some Tupac, Brand Nubian, Wu-Tang, NWA...maybe interview Black Americans whose families have been here for generations. As a fellow Nigerian, I implore you to do your homework on the people, practices, and plights you choose to vilify. I try to give your work a gracious read when it pops up on my feed. I commend you for your free-spirited writing style. But it's time to study to show yourself approved.

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Kelsey Ogbewe

Poet | Essayist | Artist “You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself, that values itself, that understands itself…” — Wangari Maathai #WEOC