Commentary

The writing on the wall does echo down the hall

To whom it may concern,

Communication. Break Down. Frustration. Tell me if you know this scene Oberlin brother/sister. The day is good, sun shines on you alone.

But before the day is done there is a shift. Everywhere you look is white. Every student every professor every aesthetic.You might as well not look at the world because you know what's coming. And you go check your email, tune out the people around you. My little brother wrote me. He's doing well, needs help on his science project when I get home for break. My mom and aunt say hello and write back because they want to hear the machine say, "You've got messages." Christmas presents, what you gonna bring us? And you feel better after that, knowing a world exists that is all your own. But if it happened once it will happen again. Not the fault of you or of your white friend. But don't keep it in sister/brother-man. Dialogue when you hurt, when you wonder. There are many ways to pose a question.

Ass-u-me the pain that you have caused a-level, your name here, is lashes across the back and twelve steps lost in a journey for us all.

-Prentiss Slaughter (College Junior)

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