My view is that we should stop writing back and start writing forward. Writing back was a form of resistance. Writing forward must become reconstruction.
My friend Naumi Chela, a radical feminist, together with many others of her persuasion, was agitated by my reaction to a widely circulated video of a woman angrily ranting about French atrocities against African countries at the dawn of independence.
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