Publisher's Synopsis
"Secrets lose their power once they are exposed!" That is what Dr. Angeline Dean firmly believes. Akkkademia tried to stop her from telling
her story, but she prevailed, and this is part one of her story. "We have been keeping everything
in the house and in our housed bodies for far too long and it is killing us, literally. It is
past time to pull the band-aid off and get healed. In fact, let's not only talk about it but also
dissect it" she asserts. The "it" she is referring to is white-injected oppression- a term coined
by Baba Wekesa Madzimoyo as his work seeks to heal African Americans of enslavement's
psychosis. Most know this term as internalized racism, yet when using the term internalized
racism, she learned that we are re-victimizing the victim.
This book served as Dr. Dean's autoethnographic account (like that of a biography) of what
she experienced by those who profess(ed) to be such access, success, inclusion, justice, progress,
and power -to -the people focused...Yet served as straight-up plantation overseers
and accomplices. In it, she shares how she is "tired of discussing and hearing about direct
encounters from 'whiteness, ' 'white delusional supremacy, ' whiteness as property, ' alongside
other pro-Black and critical theories while remaining silent, repressed actually, when
discussing the social reproduction of whiteness's sickness and infection upon African American,
Black, and Brown people wholistically. "If a white snake bites me, it's okay for me to
expose that, but if a Black, Brown, Bi-racial, or International Black snake bites me, then I
am supposed to remain silent while feasting on the poison? No Ma'am! No Sir! In fact- like
my uncle used to say, "Ah Hell to the Nawh! I've witnessed the afterlife of enslavements
abuse toward too many melanated students, African American students in particular. Melanated
to be exact-NOT colored in my opinion, because I do not subscribe to BIPOC."
"I will NOT remain silent and play a game that relegates me to game-prey...I AM NOT
your animal! I AM a Human who is proud to be HUEman and a human BEing. I will not
only be free, but I seek to be whole. AND, I will not JUST be free but I. Will. BE. Free
inDeed!" This is Dr. Dean' daily declaration!
In this book, you will read the intersections and interconnections of her theories, flow with
her poetic methods, and witness her 'I was Never down with OPP model (Oppression Plantation
Paradigm). Hear what she not only endured but also how she had to fight back using
some of the Master's tools and proud hood strategies...#Reparations
