Monday, March 27, 2023

Indelible Black Stain

 


 

They were once valuable commodities

known also for their potential for those

who judged age, temperament, sturdy

construction as workplace essentials

capable of enriching the buyer. But

they were also quite expendable since

there were plentiful others where they

came from to be rounded up, herded

transported and displayed with pride

as new acquisitions capable as breeding

stock, as physical specimens of hard

labour ably withstanding harsh treatment

inclement weather and insubstantial 

investments in housing, integuments and 

food, an irresistible draw for they could 

also withstand inhumane types of extreme 

punishment. In the final analysis their 

presence represented the armature of a 

nation's economy. A nation which now 

finds itself without answer to the charges 

levelled against it as slavers and human 

rights slackers wealthy, influential but 

torn asunder, eternally damned.

 

 

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