The Sacredness of Black Lives: A Reaction to Harmonia Rosales’ "Master Narrative"
Originally published in Cuentos Journal of the AfroLatine Theology Project
Harmonia Rosales is asking us to change the master narratives we hold within and that we tell ourselves, even as Black people. She is asking us to look at the divinity of Black Lives, not only in Black depictions of deities, but in depictions of quotidian Black people. She is communicating to all visitors that Blackness is divine, and that Blackness is sacred. This aspect, the sacredness of Blackness, is not usually mentioned by any of the narratives we traditionally hold.
