{"id":103262,"date":"2020-08-28T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/?p=103262"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:32:19","slug":"passing-the-crown-series-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/en\/passing-the-crown-series-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the crown series &#8211; PART 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AN INTRODUCTION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2014 the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) launched the #SayHerName campaign to amplify and politicize the names and stories of Black women, girls, and femmes lost to state violence. The campaign continues to be an essential part of a new global movement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was introduced to #sayhername campaign by Kimberly Crenshaw podcast Intersectionality Matters- Under the Blacklight: Telling Stories of State Violence &amp; Public Silence in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For some reason, it took the horrific and brutal murder of George Floyd for people around the world to wake up. For me to wake up. But why now and why this man?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why am I unwilling to stand for the BLACK women who died. We must be equally outraged when state violence. Since the beginning of our time on North America \/ Turtle island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let&#8217;s not forget that Black women are just as likely to be die.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This text is titled <em>Passing the crown because<\/em> I want to use my platform to uplift t<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">he voices that have been crushed under the weight of oppression and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104793 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mains tenant une affiche Say their names dans une manifestation\" width=\"770\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1-200x160.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1-400x320.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-Wg3whp6W_nw-unsplash-770x616-1.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A POEM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Who was the first one to say<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I can&#8217;t breathe?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Does it matter?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Yes.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>When a black woman is killed<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The world is silent<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>If we start talking about Black Women<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The world will be turned upside down<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Why are we not talking about<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>India Kager, killed by Virginia Beach police in 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What about Sandra Bland, killed in custody in Waller County TX in 2015<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>There is even a 2018 HBO documentary about her life<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The 4th of the pack<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The family of note-takers is still fighting for<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What about Korryn Gaines, killed by Baltimore Police in 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What about Michelle Cusseaux, killed by Phoenix Police in 2014<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What about Kayla Moore, killed by Berkeley Police in 2013<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What about Shelly Frey, killed by Houston police in 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Or Marie-Joseph Angelique<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>An enslaved woman in Montreal<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>On June 21 1734 was on set on fire THEN hanged THEN paraded in the streets by the city of Montreal<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>One woman burnt down old Montreal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>This is not an exercise in victimization.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>This is an exercise in resistance.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>We must burn down the system<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I need to harness my voice<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>My energy<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Towards<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Black women who have been forgotten<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>We are up against the world<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Who else will say her name if not us?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What can I contribute to the cause<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What do I want to fight for?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I want to uplift<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The BLACK women who<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Have fallen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I do not want to victimize<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>My sisters<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BLACK women like Claudette Colvin<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The real rosa parks<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The dark-skinned<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Teenage mother<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Who had the guts to stand up to injustices<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BLACK women who<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Carry the past with them<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The rage<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Against the system of reality<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>That sets in motion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BLACK women like Kimberly Crenshaw<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Who lights the way<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>For intersections of women<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>To walk the pah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I see you walking<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Energy positively radiant<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mesmerizing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>We are up against the world<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Who else will say her name if not us?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I want you to ask yourself<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>how are you going to say her name?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">END OF PART 1 &#8211; SOME THOUGHTS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I want to bring attention to Korryn Gaines Poem The Vampire Theory. First highlighted by The story of Say Her Name, this is a play written by Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, G\u2019Ra Asim, and Julia Sharpe-Levine in 2019 and it is based on five years of interviews with this group of women, now called the #SayHerName Mothers Network. The plot entangles the stories of six women victims of police violence and their mothers to weave a tapestry of intergenerational loss, grief, resistance, and rebirth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These mothers gave us permission to uplift their daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104795 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-zIHsQqJ71IE-unsplash-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Femme tenant une affiche Color is not a crime dans une manifestation\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-zIHsQqJ71IE-unsplash-683x1024-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-zIHsQqJ71IE-unsplash-683x1024-1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-zIHsQqJ71IE-unsplash-683x1024-1-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/clay-banks-zIHsQqJ71IE-unsplash-683x1024-1.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Vampire Theory <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>by Korryn Gaines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>our blood reeks of<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>the loyalty they can smell it in the air<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>we&#8217;re so used to our own scent we cannot<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>fathom what we bear they know of our<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>greatness I&#8217;m just trying to taste it<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>while others are trying to waste it and<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>the white man is trying to trace it but<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>even in trying to find what is truly<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>beyond divine, they could never go back<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>far enough we&#8217;re way beyond that time<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>therefore in the meantime, they cut the<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>queens and kings with crime used to hang<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>this up with strings to trees and other<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>things now they took guns with beings<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>and wrist rings same old ankle chains<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>still beating less the same ain&#8217;t<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>nothing changed except now they&#8217;re<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>trying to survive can&#8217;t find any use for<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>us alive not knowing we can&#8217;t die so<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>while they&#8217;re chasing blood snatching<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>bodies eating babies and raping our <\/strong><strong>minds go ahead and sex with all kind<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>they can only become us with there be<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>thrust as for us they only raised our<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>army and I trust that we are righteous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN INTRODUCTION In 2014 the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[261],"couleur":[],"etiquette-darchives":[],"type-de-ressource":[],"class_list":["post-103262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-en","tag-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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