Comments - Ashley M. Jones, Alabama State's First Black Poet Laureate read her poem 'Manifest Destiny' - Oppressed Peoples Online Word...The Voice Of The Voiceless2024-03-29T02:16:35Zhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6273430%3ABlogPost%3A194602&xn_auth=notag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2021-10-28:6273430:Comment:1946062021-10-28T15:20:58.295ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
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The poet Ashle…tag:oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com,2021-10-28:6273430:Comment:1946042021-10-28T15:19:54.656ZBilal Mahmud المكافح المخلصhttps://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profile/2frvdhko3jtbx
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<p>Ashley Jones</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">The poet Ashley M. Jones wants far more than financial reparations to compensate for centuries of slavery and its legacies — though she would take a check. To her, true reparations require an enormous cultural evolution.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">“You think<span> </span><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">money</em><span> </span>can ever repay what you stole?” she asks in her third poetry collection, “Reparations…</p>
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<p>Ashley Jones</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">The poet Ashley M. Jones wants far more than financial reparations to compensate for centuries of slavery and its legacies — though she would take a check. To her, true reparations require an enormous cultural evolution.</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">“You think<span> </span><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">money</em><span> </span>can ever repay what you stole?” she asks in her third poetry collection, “Reparations Now!,” which was published in September. “Give me land, give me all the blood you ripped out of our backs, our veins.”</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">“Give me the songs you said were yours but you know came out of our lips first,” she writes shortly after. “Give me back Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Give me back the beauty of my hair. The swell of my hips. The big of my lips. Give me back the whole Atlantic Ocean. Give me a never-ending blue. And a mule.”</p>
<p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0">Full article: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/ashley-jones-poet-laureate-alabama.html?fbclid=IwAR32O5kw0sI0URwwBD70qI38tMWZ9AfUoL_wMa0obb6yaGqtnBF_MWCVffg">Ashley M. Jones Is Named Poet Laureate in Alabama - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a></p>