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Still Black (Part 2)

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What Am I suppose to think?

 

I see your tanning I am already

a burnt umber brown you’re getting

collagen treatments for fuller lips

mine are full and luscious by genes

 

I see you braiding your long silky hair

“now my nappy hair” been braided

since birth

 

What am I suppose to think?

 

You say you don’t want to look like me

act like me or talk my talk

Now all I see is baggy pants, rapping my rap

and walking my walk

 

See I can easily fit in your world

“Hell I graduated from school”

been taught to follow rules it’s been

instilled in me since my ancestors

slavery years

 

It’s your fears that I detect that got you

trying to get with the program like they

say if you can’t beat’em join them

 

All that you go through and no matter

what look you turn out you will

never know what it is like to be

black like me!

 

So don’t get too excited you will

never have the sanctified shout of

blackness deep dirty dark black

like me

 

What am I suppose to think?

by Yvonne Coleman-Burney /Aqueenpassing

 

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