There is precedent for employing an ethos of contentment as a framework for liberation. Evoking the characteristics of Sankofa, members of the African diaspora would engage this information as protected data that shapes liberated, contented Black futures. Instead, these past accounts would persist as contributions to a data stream that honors the holistic, traumatic experiences of ancestors’ experiences and retain these historical narratives as fluid and intentionally instructional information. In this model, historical narratives about genocidal pasts would not transmit the emotional trauma of these stories to future generations. In the tradition of speculative fiction, this essay asks, “what if?”: What if we reconstructed the path to Black liberation using a new framework for remembering? Instead of navigating rememory of the cultural and historical traumas of chattel slavery and colonization, we would prioritize remembering these important histories as collections of cautionary tales to be honored, retold, and reinformed.
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