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Azealia Banks Releases Preview of Her Slavery Fable

Posted on December 21st, 2014
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Lately, Azealia Banks has been at the forefront of race relations. She’s gotten into it with Iggy Azalea over her role in hip-hop and gotten into a twitter war with Action Bronson that brought on responses from Solange Knowles and Q-Tip.

Showing that she has more to offer than tweets, Banks has revealed that she’s writing a slavery-focuses short story, entitled “Idle Delilah,” which shares a name with a song off of her latest album, Broke with Expensive Taste.  The story tells the story of a young woman named Delilah Maisley who’s stepfather is a cruel slave owner named Luther Luciferian Lynch. Banks released a snippet of the short story via her tumblr yesterday and you can read an excerpt of it below:

Delilah’s mother, Lilith; was a compassionate but suspicious woman. Her family was one of the most affluent southern families of the time. They were descendants of the royal crown and since their arrival in the Americas, built a fortune trading cotton, tobacco, and slaves for a living. While most madams of similar stature, were full of pride, basking in the glory of their good fortune and prosperity, Lilith remained uneasy and lived with a gnawing fear. Instead of hosting lavish tea and dinner parties to posture for other wealthy families, she kept watch over Delilah; making sure she never wandered off the porch into the fields with their Negro slaves. 

Lilith knew that people despised her husband just as much as they admired him.

She knew the stories of her family’s wealth, and the torture many slaves endured at the hands of her husband, “Luther Luciferian Lynch,” traveled far and wide across the south… patronizing the fears of slaves, while antagonizing the wealth and egos of other plantation owners, who’s fortunes paled in comparison to the Lynch family’s riches. 

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