"So even though I'm writing about me - Ashley - who experienced something in 2020 or 2021, I am also bringing along with me those four little girls, or Sandra Bland, or whatever has happened that speaks to my identity." Jones explores this personal angle on reparations in her new book by dissecting discrimination she's faced in her own life against examples of historic violence against Black people. "Not only our country, which needs to repair from all of the horrors that it has been through and that it has caused - specifically for my people, for Black people - but also repair on a personal level." "This book is full of poems that are about the need for repair," the poet says. Reparations Now! is the title of Jones' latest book of poems, out Sept. "And I think if we transition to a mindset of self-love on the state level, the city level, and even our personal selves, we'll get a lot closer to the liberation that we all actually need." "A part of that mindset of self-hatred, I think, might be something that a lot of Southerners or maybe Americans in general have," she says of the racist history in the region.
She moved to Miami for grad school, but has been back in Birmingham since 2015. Years ago, Jones felt she had to leave Birmingham to make something of herself, to become a writer - and to escape the city's past.
We hold these truths like dark snuff in our jaw,īlack oppression's not happenstance it's law. The truth of founding fathers' sacred oath: Here's an excerpt from her poem "All Y'all Really From Alabama":įrom death.
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