She is a strong beautiful black woman brought over to the white mans world of slavery.
She has a vision of freedom, this is why her eyes are closed to the world around her.
Behind her eyelids she sees nothing but free land of sand, animals roaming free, water from a mighty ocean where food is obtained by the mighty providers the Mandingo males, and the freedom to be taken by choice intimately by a man the Mandigo man and not raped repeatedly by her Master.
She has a vision of freedom that she will no longer have to work from sun up until sun down in cotton fields.
She has a vision of freedom, that she will no longer have to pick cotton until her hands and feet bleed uncontrollably.
Behind her eyelids, she has a vision that her babies would be with her until she chose to release them into the world and not placed out into the world by no choice of her own into slavery away from all they know family.
She has a vision of freedom, is this how the white man intended to break our line of African ancestry. By breaking up and attempting to breakdown the pride and bond of the black family.
The Master is even Cruel enough to give away the black with blue eyes child in which he helped conceive, into slavery.
She has a vision of freedom that one day her children will be free to be what they are meant to be. A Mandingo warrior strong and free or a Mandingo queen beautiful and free blessed to one day be able to entwine and conceive a mighty black family.
Oh to be FREE to be FREE is the vision she sees behind those closed eyelids. FREEDOM, what vision behind closed eyes could be sweeter.
Freedom's song is what the slaves song about and invisioned for their children. Keep on sistah with your pen because many people are still hurting for what took place long ago. Toni people are still enslaved in some places in the world. Have you heard of s*x slaves (women and children being forced to sell themselves for s*x) and child slaves (mining for diamonds for which the movie Blood Diamonds was bases)?
Yes I have heard and seen a movie about this...we have to stay in prayer. We just don't know how blessed we are!
Wednesday, September 17th 2008 at 4:23PM
Toni Stanford
