    You have to choose, you canât have both. This one or that one, that or the other, think about it and then pick a side. Or maybe you donât even have to think about it. Maybe, as in the new novel âLaws of Annihilationâ by Eriq La Salle, the decision was made decades ago.
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    Youâre sorry, deeply sorry, sincere in your apology, and it wonât happen again. You had a chance to think about your transgressions and you were wrong. What can you do or say to make things better? How can you properly make amends? As in the new book âThe Reformatoryâ by Tananarive Due, how long should you pay for something you didnât do?
It doesnât even look right. Itâs a mess, which isnât how you expected it to be. No, you shouldâve turned around the minute you saw it, walked out the door, and denied all responsibility but now youâre involved. And in the new memoir âI Wasnât Supposed to Be Hereâ by Jonathan Conyers, making things good is going to take some work.
     Seen in isolation, recent problems at HBCUs, Medgar Evers College in New York City and Barber-Scotia College in North Carolina can be easily viewed within the context of the problems all higher education students are having with see-sawing enrollment and continuing pandemic problems. And if you wanted to add the conflict that Nikole Hannah-Jones had with the Board of Trustees at the predominately white University of North Carolina, that could be just seen as a rogue board controlled by political conservatives. So, it can be easy to write race out of this dialogue, or at least downplay it.
What is immediately essential for me about Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coatesâ lengthy epistle to his son is that âpast is prologue.â
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009