Surrogates vs. Slaves Whose Kids Were Sold

Beloved poster, starring Kimberly Elise, Oprah and Thandi Newton. 

Critical race theory books are in the noose in southern states, of the country called the United States of America.

I don’t know much about the theory because I’m lazy. No time to read, busy doing things that don’t tax my brain, such as pressing LIKE and RETWEET. What I know though is that old books I’ve read and some films talk about the ‘race.’

There are ‘race films’ and it was an honour to be called a race man or woman back in the day. It was not only about being born black, but recognizing that slavery and post-slavery was an attempt to eliminate the race, that was brought in shackles from Africa.

We cannot talk about attempts to exterminate the race, without talking about black women. White masters raped slaves, and sold children as soon as women pushed them into the world. Slaves who were lucky enough to fall in love, watched in horror as massa sold the infants.

We don’t know this history, because we don’t want to know. Oprah Winfrey does. That is why she turned Beloved, Toni Morrison’s book into a film, starring herself, Kimberly Elise, Thandi Newton and Danny Glover.

It’s a disturbing film, because a woman killed her daughter rather than have her sold to slavery. What kind of a mother is that? You ask yourself.

It’s a mother that doesn’t want history to repeat itself, slave women giving birth to kids wrenched from birth while they are still bleeding from after-birth.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.