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Must be nice to be able to take it off at night
Rub melanin that is washable off that skin
Hiding behind the ignorance of “I meant no harm’’
“But black girls wear straight weaves with blonde hair & they bleach their skin.”
Why can the offense just be what it is….
Offensive?
How much longer do you want to wear my bones?
You want my skin so badly?
Can you handle the oppression that comes with it?
The self-care that brown women need?
We are born fighters
Eliminating the negative
Challenging and uplifting our broken men up right,
From a people who hate us so badly
But want to look like us?
What’s so wrong with being white?
Paint on black face with big lip injections and fake “birthing hips”
All while calling my dark skin “ugly”
Steal our language & our culture from off our tongues
Shadow every movement that we make
Wear us like clothes
Discard us
But don’t remember whose back it was that you climbed on
My curves are questioned
My features are questioned
I’m a mo****f****n warrior
Held hostage in a land that belongs to me
You want that too?
The burden of what it means to be so called “black”
I keep my head high because my ancestors told me to
I keep my feet forward and march left because I was chosen to
You
Can’t
Have
That
TOO
Keep the a** injections
And the collagen fillers
Perm your hair and make it curly
Manipulate it to make it kinky like mine
As a matter of fact
Keep the wigs too
Wear us like a trend
Demonize our “ghetto” upbringing all while mimicking it at the same damn time
Queens have no competition
But know that you can’t walk in my shoes
And that your privilege knows no bounds
And that you’ll assume the identity of a dead woman just so that we can see that “you were here first”
Go ahead mistress
Whose children that my ancestors breastfed
Whose homes that they cleaned
Whom you tortured because your men desired them
Whose meals permeated your foyer with the scent of the heavens
We have not forgotten
You give us no respect
Acknowledge nothing
Deny anything
Play the victim throughout history
Wear my face like a costume
This skin doesn’t belong to you
You didn’t earn the features
I’m not a t-shirt
I’m not a pair of mf boots
I’m not a pair of jeans
I’m not your accessory
No,
It’s not just makeup
It’s mo****f****n offensive!
