Life Starts in the Seed

Life Starts in the Seed

I spent some time contemplating how life begins in the seed, and the seed is within the feminine and has been within the feminine since the beginning of inception.  Every female is born with all of the eggs that she will ever have within her, and it has been that way since the beginning of time in much the same way that apple cider vinegar, bread yeast, kombucha, and HELA cells from Henrietta Lack continue eternally from an original source.  Thus, every woman was inside of her mother while her mother was within her grandmother, and on and on in perpetuity.  That means that the cell that sparked life was carried forth from times long past, and was impacted by experiences long ago, thus we are not only figuratively but literally impacted and nurtured by our ancestors and the things that they experienced.  The impact of this revelation is tremendous.  As a black woman, I dwelled within my ancestors when they were free and beautiful in Africa; I was with them when they were kidnapped, tortured, broken, and terrorized; I was with them when they were “freed” and fought to define that freedom, and I am here now-the most recent incarnation of the spirit of my ancestors.  Likewise, some of the Americans that we see today were there within their ancestors when they were preyed upon by a selfish aristocracy; they were there when their ancestors controlled and were controlled through ignorance, poverty, lack of information, and general lack; they were within their ancestors during the middle ages and periods of famine and lack; they were with their ancestors when they invaded foreign land to acquire resource; they were within their ancestors when they were driven from their lands through persecution; they were with their ancestors when they arrived in the “New Land”; they were on the slave ships when their ancestors purchased and kidnapped human beings for their foul intentions and they were with their ancestors when they prevented the intended slave from taking their own life, as they needed the slave to bear the unbearable to offset their own ineptitude;  they were there when their ancestors lied and reneged on many deals that they made if not with their own kind then definitely with a person of color; they were there when blacks were punished for learning to read, and pushed towards a Christian God that shifted responsibility for enslavement from the enslaver and back onto the slave, and when native children were taken for reeducation with a promise that they would be assimilated into society only to learn that was a lie; they were with their ancestors when they engaged in cognitive dissonance and defined themselves as men and thus worthy of freedom while owning human beings that they renamed as not such; they were there when their ancestors decided that, unlike Europeans, blacks could be enslaved for life with little capacity for recourse; they were with their ancestors when they beat, humiliated, micromanaged as overseer, terrorized, and raped slaves, then blamed the slave and sold the exploited slave and the offspring lest they face the evidence of their dastardly acts on a regular basis; they were there when their ancestors stole land, labor, and knowledge from black and brown peoples whom had the knowledge to cultivate the resources and crops that fueled wealth for them and the country through terror, they were there when their ancestors made the three fifths compromise, one drop rule, black codes, Jim Crow, truancy, and when black women were “de-feminized” by a colonial society that said that a 16 year old black girl was equal with a man which justified taxing women as men and excluding black women from all of the rights that femininity typically commanded;  they were their when their ancestors experimented on black men and women, deciding that blacks should bear the trauma of the advancement of their medical knowledge; they were with their ancestors when they fought against the uprising of black people seeking equality; they were there when their ancestors established concentration and internment camps  for American Asians out of fear during their war with Japan; they were there when their ancestors created poll taxes and literacy tests that they themselves could not pass as justification for barring blacks from voting; they were with their ancestors when they sprayed freedom fighters with hoses, denied seats at lunch counters, established unequal schools and water fountains, and burned Tulsa and Rosewood; they were there when their ancestors voted against black gun ownership or any methods of protecting themselves from or response to white terror; they were with their ancestors when intermixing was not allowed, with the militia, clan meetings, and lynching picnics; they were there every time their ancestors enacted whiteness to lower a person of color that they saw advancing or when they were unable to bear their own inability to prosper so they lashed out at the perceived acceptable target; and now they are here, and despite the fact that many may claim ignorance of the full extent of their ancestors actions the fact will remain that they were there and they are now here.