Monday, July 6, 2015

Not Black enough

Does the way I speak
Really matter to you
If I choose not to always speak ebonics
make me less than a slave than you
You not black enough
so I have been told
because I choose classical and opera
instead of hiphop and rap.
You sold out
because you like white people
so I hear many times
You acting white
people have told me many times
What the hell is acting white?
what is black enough
I am not black enough
I keep hearing every week
because I speak 3 languages
and I can read 3 more a bit
Black people don't know another languages
so I have been told
Black people don't have time to learn languages
while the surviving racism, police brutality
I am not black enough
because they say i never experience the black life
or any hard times.
so they say
so they believe
so they assume
I am not black enough
because I talk white
I write white
I act white
I am into "white people things"
they say
they assume
they believe
I am not black enough
because I am not radical or militant enough
they say
I end looking at the sky
thinking as the birds soar
looking at the sun
and then looking at my skin
and thinking I am darker than you
What is not black enough
but I guess asking what is not black enough
proves to them that I am really not black enough

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