From Cover To Cover

From being forced to cross the Atlantic Ocean under the cover of stars to volunteering for a mission above every ocean to the stars. From being stared at on an auction block and having the family sold and separated to ten years running, in the most watched block, as a priceless model of the family unit. From working for peanuts and fertilizing somebody's land with the blood that runs off of the back to owning the land, working the peanut, and transfusing the blood back. From being robbed of a spoken language, losing a religion, a culture, a god to influencing: the language spoken in cultures, songs in religion, and the pathway to God. From losing a hand and a foot or a leg for not being fast enough to get far enough away from “the man” to using the hands, legs and the feet in running farther and faster than the average man. From the king, of a nation, beaten into a personal slave and called names like coon, spook, and “Boy” to a boy named King who would grow up to “win over” a nation for the equal freedoms of every person. From generations that had to take the last names of past presidents to being the name that can give a future generation its first president.