Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapped in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman –
But who is that on the other side of you?
(T S Eliot ‘The Waste Land’)
The ‘third’ who has overtly traversed the ‘black’ and ‘white’ race-based landscape of British culture with me since 1990, when the black-white duality revealed itself as a social construct and as such shattered, is the descendant of enslaved African (DoEA) waiting to be acknowledged and so redeemed.
Redemption comes as I awaken to my core identity as the ‘Self’ or ‘God’ incarnated in the life experience of descendants of enslaved Africans (DoEAs) ready and waiting to transform me into the Ascendant of enslaved Africans (AoEA)…