Read With Me - The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
Sometimes, moments happen that the ordinary must be shifted for the extraordinary. I am just beginning my reading and prospective review of The Wake of the Wind and decided that I needed to share this important excerpt and challenge you to buy, borrow, or ebook this challenging story. It is speaking to us in the times we are in. Listen, learn, and live, my people. "I am Africa. I am a place. I am a state of mind. Hundred of years ago my children lived free. We had our skirmishes, within my shores; even small wars that did not disturb my great and sprawling land. We were not perfect. But...we never left our shores to seek to destroy and rob any other culture or people; to steal the fruit of their land or minds and leave the land and people ravaged. Nor did we seek to steal any people's love of themselves. Nor tell other peoples they were ignorant savages and inferior while we were superior, as the whitish ones said to us. They lied so much and long they began to bel