Blog #8

Here is another poem that I made and performed at my high school read aloud. I hope you enjoy.

                                                          I’m black

I’m black, never knew there was so much hate, the word niqqa is a word that most people shouldn’t say, when a black person uses it that’s how we greet each other, they used it to keep us under, so now when they say it there’s a double meaning under, I’m black, it feels like blacks are used as target practice, for these white cops they don’t deserve their badges, killing our black men and women for no reason, bloodshed and killing is a year round season, I’m black, getting pulled over by a cop, not knowing if I’m about to die or not, trying to reach for my driver’s license and registration, cops draws his gun but there is no hesitation, white privileged  cop plus a gun equals someone’s dead black son, I’m black, black queens portrayed as ghetto or ratchet black whores, black kings portrayed as rapists or gang bangers, so who was Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Ray Charles, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Booker T Washington, Langston Hughes, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, who were they, that was rhetorical but there’s a message I’m trying to convey, I’m black, never want to give a black person credit where it is due, want to erase us from the textbooks and everything we do, wipe out history too, this nations seems to be nothing more than a systematic racist taboo, I’m black, some people so quick to act black but when it’s time to be black they don’t want to be black because it seems like being black while have your life ended just like that, I’m black, I’m a threat to these people, I’m 6'0" and I’m brown skin I call that beautiful skin outstanding pigmentation, they don’t want me to get through, I must really get to you, my African American culture is too much for you to handle, I’m black, and I’m proud, old negro spirituals were an amazing sound, to make it through their heads were never down, I’m black, with what my ancestors went through, all I can be grateful, now it’s time for us young people to stand up and make a breakthrough, I’m black and I’m proud, you should be too.