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A food desert is any area where it’s impossible to buy fresh fruits or vegetables within a one-mile radius.
Among other things, during the ten years following the march on Selma, the number of black elected politicians in the South rose from 72 to 2,586.
The unpolished rawness and uncompromising energy of hip-hop have their roots in slavery. Just like some of the sweetest forms of expression the human race has ever invented, like jazz and blues. They were born out of misery but were so infectiously captivating and full of such bold emotions that they permeated everything else -- contemporary music, fashion, art, the way people talk, the way people walk, the way people are.
I have to find this last bit of mortar to secure the mosaic of my identity.
The yoke of history can never be cast off if you don’t first recognize that history for what it was.
I want to scream that all of South Carolina is still built on blood. Blood from black bodies that turns to gold in white pockets.
Selv om vi mennesker har fullt av planer, program, ideer og ønsker, så kan døden bare stige inn og sette et definitivt punktum for alt. Midt i setningen.
Jeg har til og med vært med på å plage Stefan fordi han var først ute med kjønnshår, Emma fordi hun kler seg annerledes og Ingrid fordi hun begynner å grine lett. Hvert minste avvik undertrykkes, og jeg er like hensynsløs mot dem som mobberne mine er mot meg. Alt for å ikke synes. Alt for å slippe unna mobbernes søkelys.
Det er en duo i friminuttene mine som kaller meg "niggerdritt" så ofte i friminuttene at jeg ikke har annet forsvar enn nevene mine. Men jeg får ikke ordene til å forsvinne ved å slå.
Akkurat i dag kommer jeg kanskje til å finne et fnugg av inspirasjon. Jeg slår tanken fra meg like kjapt som den dukker opp; inspirasjonen åpenbarer seg aldri når jeg leter etter den. Å lete er snarere en øvelse i å ikke søke.
Jeg vet ikke hvorfor, men vakre hender har alltid virket tiltrekkende på meg. Mamma smiler drømmende. Jeg vet hun har hatt tre kjærligheter i hele sitt liv, tre par hender som hun har valgt å legge hjertet sitt i.
Trots att vi människor har en massa planer, scheman, idéer och viljor kan döden bara kliva in och sätta definitiv punkt för allt, mitt i meningen.
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About Jason Timbuktu Diakité
About the book
World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history—from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds—part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors’ origins as
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- 2016
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- Jason Timbuktu Diakité
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