My eyes blurred with the pain of betrayal of an African Man.
400 years and the Middle Passage couldn’t change his nature.
The nature that caused him to sell my ancestors into slavery
The nature that causes him to objectify women in his own land
The nature that caused him to brutalize his own people for European goods.
The nature that causes him to use and marry already aching black American women only to dispose of them later
That is why I wish I was the noose…..
the noose that Okonkwo hung himself with
the noose that choked the air out of this proud African Man
the noose that ended the life of this abuser of women
the noose that crushed the existence of Ikemefuna’s killer