PAD Challenge Day 14: Minority Report: The State of a Black Woman in America

PAD Challenge Day 14: Write a report poem.

Minority Report: The State of a Black Woman in America

We are now live in 2018.

Still a danger to society

Tightly coiled or sometime

loose like the roots of our hair

Never or almost are we straight

Because we are still the most

degraded, underrated, and

underpaid women of color

Sometimes unsure of which women

hates us the most, the one with

thin lips or full ones like ours

But we are not discouraged

or afraid of side eyes or petty, jealous ways.

Because we are aware of how far we’ve come.

Far from the soil that queened us

to injustice lands that only want to

see us on display like Sarah Baartman.

Just so they can grab us by the pussy

or mistake us for being a pussy

But we are not.

We are still wearing our crowns

through all women's suffrage

That we collected at birth,

generating black lives

matter movements,

Collecting bachelors, master’s,

PhDs, M.D.'s and J.D.'S

Owning our powerful legacy

while trying to disown the bags

of sorrow offered by America.

1,532,494 of us own our own businesses 

We are heading households by 30%.

We are breadwinners that introduce our

tables to full course meals and then some

We are homeowners.

We are lenders.

We are humanitarians.

We are philanthropists.

We are educators,

teaching others

how blacks should really be seen.

64% of us are white collars

28% of us have a FICO score

of 720 and higher

We carry keys to cites

Hold offices

Wear medals of honors

We are nominees or winners of

Nobel Prizes, Emmys, Grammys,

Oscars, Billboards,

National Book Awards and more.

Side by side,

Face to face

Skin to skin,

Known and unknown,

We still queening

And it's so amazing to be one more

Black queen contributing

black excellence for another black sister

to be inspired by this black girl magic.

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