Member-only story

The Liberian 🇱🇷 Apologue.

Henry Johnson LR
2 min readJul 16, 2019

Liberians, you were born, where you were and suffered the future that you allowed because you “accepted.” The ends of your drive were, thus, demanded to be set perpetually. You were born into a culture which spelled out with coarse precision, and in as many ways as viable, that you were an object and ineffectual individual.

Title: (Vai) Vey princess, mamma Vey prince, Sabro.
Created / Published: 1895.

Your struggles come to be seen as not pertaining to a tribe or a personal Congaus Versus Natives’ reality; it is a social construct. You were not supposed to want, the life that one’s desires for one’s countrymen, perhaps, one’s country: you were surmised to union with mediocrity.

Emmett J. Scott, Negro member of Liberian Commission, at the boat dock, New York.

Wherever you have turned, you have been told that the system creators were to patch the system somehow and make it perfect for “ALL.” I know that some of your countrymen would not agree with me about this, and I may hear them saying “You overreached. This assertion does not apply to all of the realities.”

They do not know West Point, but many do. Take nobody’s word for anything, including mine- but trust your own realities that created an awaken precision. With your life experiences comes hope and destiny awaits you. It Knows whence you came.

Buy the book here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/henry-johnson-jr/the-unexamined-life/paperback/product-23812482.html?ppn=1

--

--

Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.

No responses yet