On December 15, 2021, our loving bell hooks transitioned and with her parting soul she left us a lot behind. We just did not know it, until the Summer of 2023. I for sure did not know that she had plans for me. I remember the day of her passing. I had organized a good bye celebration for my kids who had stuck with me for over ten months to learn robotics. We enjoyed our day sharing food and our plans to use our robots for your communities. I learned so much from them and because of them I began writing everything I they taught me. Little did I know, their teachings would keep me afloat two days after bell hooks' passing, when the Executive Director of the non-profit I was working for coldly and unlawfully fired me. The ED had been passively threatening me in order to stop organizing my fellow teachers to demand for better pay and more financial transparency months prior. I just did not how dangerous I was to the hierarchy of my workplace.
“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
— bell hooks