The Culmination of an Education

Over the next few days I will be working on a story which I will submit as a final project for my college capstone English class. The parts that I am willing and wanting to share will be in the next few posts, so sit back and enjoy.

Into the Pale
Christina Richards

“What If I told you about Ana Flynn? They would kill me for telling you, and they would torture you for knowing. She was the only thing they were afraid of, and she’s gone now. And that is why, no matter the consequences, I must tell you about Ana.

“Ana was the only daughter of Getty Mwakadi, general of Zimbabwean martial forces. Many believed that her mother’s marriage to foreign politico, Marshal Flynn, was crucial to her role as general. Through her African-American husband, Getty Mwakadi had sway within the U.S. military forces. With such visibility, such power, and such an important marriage to hold together, it would be suicide for a daughter of Africa to sleep with a white man. However, Ana had “dark hazel eyes,” they said, not “African black,” and her hair was less unruly than either her father’s or her mother’s.

“The propaganda started half a century before you were born. Could you even imagine a time before broadcasts and advertisements were branding hate slogans against the Pales into our subconscious? The world was more balanced then. There was hatred, but tolerance and love to overcome it. Today, there is no love that hate does not snuff out. You may not believe me, but, despite the broadcasted lies, the Pales are the same as you and me. Ana was the last proof of that. She looked like us, but she was also a Pale.”