Poetry: Heir Share
- Alexis Cuffee
- May 7, 2019
- 1 min read
Lillian Milton's property, which was valued at $46,700 by the Georgetown county assessor, was sold at a delinquent tax sale to a real estate developer for $1,236, according to documents seen by the Georgetown Times. -BBC News
What gives them the right to take my land
from right up under me? how the HELL
did Uncle Tom take my livelihood?
a northern cousin, who has never
stepped foot on this Carolina soil?
what gives them the right to do this?
don’t they know how our people worked for
this? did no one tell them the stories
of how our ancestors BROKE THE CHAINS
of their slave narrative, and built their
OWN FREEDOM.
they built a place for us to be safe.
a place where our own culture could grow
y’all have no claim here! Y’all have no rights!
my momma sat me down on these very
steps as child every Sunday
she would braid my hair, as her mother
did for her, as I did for my own.
as my daughter will do for her girls
This is our birthright, we own this land
How dare you call yourself MY FAMILY
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