Being/Becoming

Abstract: Ontology analyzes what can be said to exist given what satisfies the framework employed. Metaphysics covers that much and what can be said about the relationship between these different frames. Therein lies a gap that inspires much controversy. Denise Ferreira da Silva has shown us how taking what is known to be the case as all that can actually be the case runs amok, especially with regard to analyses of race and racialization. This essay offers a treatment of this gap by taking up Sonia Sanchez's protocol from a program developed within the Black Arts Movement wherein what can be said to be can also be said to be significant given the framework employed.