A Coded Language
Arts & Culture | the cookout | Nieema Williams I love the way black people communicate with each other. I love the way Black people do our ‘ thang.’ We have a private language, cultivated despite hundreds of years of culture cleansing, and forced assimilation whose mission was to strip away our native tongues. Having to meet and speak with life-threatening secrecy, our ancestors created this morse code within us. This is one code that we do not have to worry about being hacked because even...
