Tetrogrammaton.

Tetracketka.

There's never been a time that I didn't understand the importance of a man and masculinity to my direct household and my greater family.

I tell people all the time that I hear stories of when the world was totally patriarchal and ran by men and women were oppressed.

Within my family structure, though, that has moreover not been the case.

The deed from the 1940s of my great-grandparents, when they bought land that we still

in the Tuskegee, Alabama has my great-grandfather's name and my great-grandmother's name.

I knew both of them, lived in the time they lived,

sit down to the farm, kicked it, have fun, you know, learn some hard lessons, you know what I mean?

But yeah, there were- Tell me about their farm. It was more than 30 acres.

Wow. And then Eminent Domain took some of it because of a highway. It's in Tuskegee, Alabama. Did they have Adam? Yeah, yeah, you had mules, had chickens,

had cows, had a pond that was stocked with fish. Everything you needed to live was there. And when we

first started going down there, it was an outhouse and later it got plumbing. Yeah. A farm is essentially a

functioning free state because you don't need government. You don't need to depend on people. You know what I mean? So we, yeah, my family's

from Tuskegee, Alabama. My great-grandparents were sharecroppers. They saved enough money to buy their own land.

Their kids and them worked at land. My grandparents, my grandmother was educated with her eight brothers and

sisters. So nine kids were raised on their farm. That's how I know eggs aren't white, they're brown. When they

come out of the chicken, you know, that's why I was a sickly or what they call carrie child. I had

asked me. And we were down there. All the kids that got dropped off to the farm, so I'm just down there.

My big mama, all the other kids are off at the pond, like around and I'm on the porch with her and a dog I saw a dog

cut across the yard and get other chicken I want to tell my big one was a dog with that the chicken

she came outside it was like muppet babies I could remember the the hem of her garment the apron

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