the worst

thing that ever happened

to

the world

was

the white man coming across gun powder.

—the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy

—Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

‘Friday’, the brown-skinned young man who Robinson Crusoe rescued from slaughter—the famous Robinson Crusoe in Daniel Defoe’s novel, that is—the white man stranded on an island near Trinidad for 28 years