Liberian

What makes one #Liberian? Do you lose your Liberian card if you didn't live through the 15 year civil war?#RIP🙏🏾

Or perhaps it's your ability to swallow & not chew dumboy that we shall inspect.

Do you bucket flush? Bucket bath?

Do you know how to see in the darkness?

Or is there a formula that deducts points for # of years spent outside of the country?

Minus 5000 for each ancestor that was not born here on this Pepper Coast

Minus 10 for each syllable uttered in American seres they will say!

Plus 5000 for each drop of unadulterated melanin!

Plus 5000 if you've got property, we all know you ain't shit if you don't got it

Plus 10000 if it's property that became yours after you made the rules for how property could be owned & by whom.

#absenteelandlords

Is it your ability or inability to speak dialects native to this land?

Do you even have a tribe they will say?

Do you even really know where you come from?

See the mad rush of people signing up to be "country" (when convenient of course)

"23 & me, please choose something 'Liberian'!"

Perhaps it's how well versed you are in American antebellum mores?

Is it then how well you were able to subjugate those who looked just like you?

Or how well you were able to bring order, religion & civilization to your dark brethren?

Protected borders, hidden mind prisons

How well we've aced the test of illusive superiority & willful ignorance. Bravo!

#sinkingsand

What of our Caribbean brothers & sisters desiring to come "home", they na reach?

The others we break bread with, rebuild w/, & patronize

Are they less Liberian than the Vai man with Liberia amnesia in Kentucky?

Is being born on Liberian soil the metric?

Constitutional sticky points that leave many w/o Negro descent straight outta luck...

How then shall we measure your patriotism?

No, for sure mehn, we shall measure it by your affinity for money business

How much do you love💲?

How inclined are you to steal small thing & pay Paul?

How inclined are you to help "the country"?

Have you finished paying your black tax yet?

How quickly would you run to 🇺🇲 & never look back?

#Liberia

#ProudlyLiberian

#Unlocked

#Consciencism

#OpentheNationalDialogue

#TheLoveofLibertyUnitesUsHere

#SouLiberty