The Cost of the Feast: Why Comfortable Chains Are Still Chains
The Cost of the Feast: Why Comfortable Chains Are Still Chains Let’s stop lying to ourselves about modern success. We love to boast about the corner office, the direct deposits, and the luxury perks, but behind closed doors, our spirits are suffocating. We have traded our sovereign genius for corporate scraps, smiling through microaggressions just to secure a seat at a table that was built to exploit us. The ancestors from Malawi cut straight through that compromise: "It is better to eat mushrooms in freedom than to eat meat in slavery." August 21st holds heavy ancestral receipts. On this exact night in 1791, Dutty Boukman and Cécile Fatiman gathered our people in the dark woods of Bois Caïman. They looked at the plantation tables heaped with meat bought with their own degradation and chose the wild mushrooms of war, sparking the Haitian Revolution. Forty years later, on August 21, 1831, Nat Turner rose in Virginia because he refused to let his soul be bought off with crumbs....
Wonderful! Loved the history! Share this with your children! My son fell in love with Capoeria after watching the movie "Only the Strong." It became one of his favorites...thank you for sharing this so that we could revisit it. Would love to have such a group here in Columbus!
ReplyDeletehey there is a group here, actually more than one, but capoeria is alive and well in columbus. I have several capoerista waiting to get me in 'the roda' so they can try to put a hurting on me. anyone that want some info about classes hit me up and i will send you info.
ReplyDeleteAxe' Nuff said
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