Since then, they have dedicated themselves to pursuing a research / pedagogical mission that is threefold: 1) to put a match to the plantation penitentiary structures in the English language that repress the growth of free black thought 2) to
establish a cross generational dialogue extending from the present moment to the
Middle passage, and 3) quoting Dan Freeman, the protagonist of Sam Greenlee's novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, to «mess wit» whitey».