PAD Challenge Day 10: The Black Woman Who Is Often Called Out of Her Name

PAD Challenged Day 10: Write a “The (blank) who (blank) poem.

The Black Woman Who Is Often Called Out of Her Name

This is not a theory.

A scientific method is not needed.

This is truth. These are facts.

A black woman is the

most disrespected

woman on earth.

She has been stripped from Negus

and called Nigger after wanting

the freedom of her crown again.

She is called Monkey and Ape

as if their genes were

developed in her DNA.

She has been Mammy to white children

that she fed her breastmilk to when her

own Black Diamonds and Pearls,

whom you may call Pickaninny,

needed her calcium and iron to

develop, function mentally,

and grow strong too.

She has been Color Gal to

some white men who slapped her down,

forced her limbs still to steal her innocence

behind the shack house on the planation,

as if she deserved it and

it was a penalty waiting for her.

Now, her baby is Mulatto,

born out of her father’s jungle fever.

Some call her Light Bright.

Her two older sisters are called

Tar Baby and Midnight.

Their aunts are Jezebels

because they favor Sarah Baartman.

For the love of their tight coils

and being black, her friends

are known as Nappy Heads.

After you destroyed their

Free Breakfast for Children Program,

you executed their Kings

or did you put a body under their names

when they were never at the scene;

or maybe you planted coke and maryjane on ‘em,

then denied her college and job application

over and over again, cheated her out of a raise

and a few dollars on her last paycheck

just so that you can call her a Welfare Queen.

But she refused to stay there

or be pushed there.

So, she gained controlled of her

heritage and black image.

She fought against uncivilized

behavior and rights, fractured liberties

and fake justice for all;

demanded respect,

equity and equal opportunities

in education and employment,

for herself and her people.

After appearing out of control

for defending herself,

supporting her own opinions,

she is still called an angry black woman

or an angry black bitch

when she is just simply a

STRONG BLACK WOMAN.

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