right here, right now.

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Black people have been knowing this, especially Black women, so the ideas in "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" (and perhaps more in 'Parable of the Trickster" had she lived with better health in order to write the third book) are not new to us. The irony is, non-Black people are heeding the warnings now that shit affects them, too. The legacy of Black American history was already a dystopian, SF/horror nightmare for centuries. Octavia wasn't a Nostradamus, because white terrorist history is cyclical. All she had to do was look outside her window in Altadena, CA and write what she saw. But that's science fiction to non-Black people. Everyday life for us.

Thank God she did give us glimmers of hope in her work because that's how Black people always got over. Non-Black people never listen to us anyway, so good luck to them for the next 4 years. My people always stay ready for the fuckery. We expect it.