time travel

Watching “Lovecraft Country” as a resident alien

As someone who grew up in an independent, black majority country with black and brown prime ministers and even a black female prime minister, who’s never had to live from birth with the knowledge that my skin marks me as other, a threat, or grants those in power license to kill me for just existing while black, I’ve had to learn through mediatized images of black death the everpresent horror my black brothers and sisters in this country I now live know intimately.

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