Stephen Satterfield Instagram – Once I linked my liberation to self-reliance
I knew I was moving in the spirit of my forebears
Carry the torch to light the way
Or hurl that thang.
Barriers to emancipation are immense
Every century we mobilize for freedom
And each of the days in between them.
For me, @whetstonemagazine has always been
salvation byway of self-identification:
raconteur, bricoleur, entrepreneur.
Look at me speaking French like a Black Haitian
With the same pigmentation
Purpose fervor
Find a way or make one
Clark Atlanta is my mama’s alma mater
Now I’m in a proud tradition of Black publishers
In the spirit of Walker’s Appeal,
For real.
Regarding the ultra-depleted
seat at the table fable
Baldwin asked rhetorically, “Do I want to be integrated into a burning house?”
When David Walker said,
I cannot remain where I must hear slaves’ chains,
When Haki Madhubuti said
There ain’t no poems to stop a .38
no stanzas can protect me from a nightstick.
Or when Nikki Giovanni said,
i wanted to write a poem that rhymes
but revolution doesn’t lend itself to be-bopping
maybe i shouldn’t write at all but clean my gun.
These have always been the stakes
in the United States
And its origins as a Slave colony.
Do not rely on me for your stories
deriding the white fantasy of Black inferiority.
I’m not the one who needs convincing nor am I
moved to disprove notions of white supremacy
When the fallacy is obliterated with every breath I take.
Whatever yall call the cutting edge of culture,
in vernacular, fashion, music or hoopin
has been Black.
Now you can tell your friends it’s true
in food publishing too!
I owe a great deal to @alexbowman for the stunning cover design, and @laylaschlack, “If you know, you know.” So many holding us down behind the scenes. Thank you. Especially to the contributors of Whetstone Volume 6. It is because of your talent that I stand in my conviction about the specialness of what we’re making, and what we made.
Thank you for the radical act of supporting independent media.
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