From "An Open Letter to a Writer"
July 5, 2015
Since we talked back in May, our world has made good
progress in collapsing. When I was much
younger, my spirit would have trembled.
Now it laughs, because one can laugh freely if one is Roman Catholic and
not Christian, if one is faithful trickster.
Thus, I smirk when African-descended people "forgive" a
Satanic thug in Charleston for murdering their relatives and friends in
church --- a church associated with Denmark Vesey. We deserve nothing better than to celebrate
July 16, 1822 in 2015 by recalling that Christian black folk are insanely
good. They trash the sacrificial
intentions of black revolutionaries and walk into the genocide of
salvation. We no longer laugh to keep
from crying. We laugh to keep from
killing.
I remember the moral disengagement hatred demands and
maintain some distance from it. As I
mentioned to one of our fellow-writers, I write to prevent my becoming a serial
killer. Killing people rarely resolves
the systemic problems which encage us. I
write to assassinate time.
.......
Stay well and stay strong in this eternal battle we have
to fight.
Peace,
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
