I had to relinquish myself retroactively as a sacrifice to hi tech intelligentsia meeting with old style literary woes under the auspices of the Harvard Advocate, the undergraduate literary magazine at Harvard.
what I have had a hard time doing us similarly relinquishing my son as a sacrifice to black/white world issues as the one-eyed black cat as I have rendered here in a recent post. Because this is not in me and is out of my hands. It is on him to see it and know it and choose whether to own it.
I wrote a short paper when I got out of a Charter hospital in Maryland under the brunt of the Hopkins lawsuit when they refused to receive me back. It was titled “Black People Should Be Treated Like Royalty.” At that time I had sufficient chutzpah to think such a thing. I sent it to my old roommate at Harvard who was a professor of African American studies and married to an icon of Black American intellectual matters, a professor of such at Harvard. She mentioned it when we next talked but didn’t say what she did with it. I always wondered.
regardless, my son grew uo under the onus of an obligation to Black world as a black man from Nigeria with a Disney black cat name pertained to help me at the Charter hospital when I was all but dead there and slated for the state hospital.
hence the myth of the one eyed black cat in black/white issues in America today.
it took becoming fodder for aliens for me to reach self-acceptance in the wake of the Hopkins malpractice. What will it take for Ian?



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