Written by Laura Hackshaw
Edited by Veronica Vivi
Illustrated by Daley North
This is a show tune
But the show hasn’t been written for it, yet
Hound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day’s gonna be my last
Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don’t belong here
I don’t belong there
I’ve even stopped believing in prayer
– Mississippi Goddamn by Nina Simone
‘‘Afro-Surrealism is drifting into contemporary culture on a rowboat with no oars…to hunt down clues for the cure.’’
– D. Scot Miller – Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black is the New Black a 21st Century Manifesto (2009)
*This essay contains spoiler alerts for several TV shows and films
