This image is of Peggy (R), then a 19 year-old SNCC member, next to future civil rights icon, Dr. Dorothy Cotton (L), after a 1962 church burning in Georgia—the state that Peggy's great-great grandparents, William & Ellen Craft, famously escaped from slavery nearly 115 years earlier...
MY
WEEKLY
WORD
10.3.20
Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Dr. Dorothy Cotton
Yet another unprecedented week...
THE CARNIVAL OF STEALTH
by Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
When an enemy is stealth
it creeps
does not pounce
until it is
time—
its own
time—
to reveal itself.
Surprisingly often late
Surprisingly right on time.
​
WE
THE
PEOPLE
cannot remain aloof or unencumbered
at this carnival of stealth
as
we
too
are part of the show.
​
Tell me—
if you can—
how we can
possibly endure anymore!
in our living rooms or in our kitchens,
in our high rises or
under bridges
in the subways
or in the mountains
living moment by moment
waiting for yet the next disclosure
to rock
our senses,
senselessly.
​
Somewhere between the rain and the rainbow
we hover as a nation.....
waiting for such a different son.
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