Alex Neason

So I was listening to all this stuff Sammy was telling me.

Do they have nine lives?

It was almost like I could feel the roach begin to transform into something more than just a pest.

So they've sort of evolved to protect themselves in this way from us, the predator, and like other predators, I guess.

But then he told me that as much as I didn't want cockroaches around.

They didn't want to be around either.

Huh.

Is a misnomer.

So they got here on slave ships.

He tells me this in this conversation, and it just felt like, damn.

OK, why like why would you let's start this whole conversation over and just like, can we just not?

It was just sort of like, like, I can't even just hate a bug without the shadow of slavery.

Like, I just wanted to hate this bug and see if I could not hate it.

And then it's like now this.

Well, I talked to a bunch of people about this.

Nope, absolutely not.

And one of them was author and my friend, Angela Flournoy.

Obviously, the metaphor is abound.

Because there's like this thing that I think everyone's going to do, which is be like, oh, great, shared history.

You guys survived something together.