PAD Challenge Day 8: The b&w Paranoia Activity
PAD Challenge Day 8: Write a paranoid poem.
The b&w Paranoia Activity
there are always thoughts about
how blacks physically fit
into phenotypical spaces
according to our genotypes...
but one's color
like size does not fit all
even dark meat has been
picked apart from the white
balanced and weighted
differently down to whether
red or yellow bones are better
and
if those blacker
than a berry
has sweeter juice
all along acting
as if being black
wasn't good enough for b&w
when really the color of black culture
diligently dressed us unanimously
in different seats at the table
where the history of our bloodline conjoined us
and
we became music
in rhythm with
our Black American blues
a black chorus
singing the sweetest amazing grace
one band under one sound
and
soul food kept us coming back
for seconds or more of
unconditional African diaspora loving
because we knew
the dream of freedom
was scarce for us
until we discovered
that nubian braids
traced us to freedom trails
liberating us to afros like microphones
where black souls screamed
how black, beautiful, and proud
we should be in a world
where we are constantly
under the surveillance
of the Blue and green eyes of envy
and
some where between
reconstructing this error
an era of shade
has been thrown
on the backs of
some blacks
while others seem lost
and
those found
marching out of fear
and the boxes of doubt
about being black enough
are sometimes-at-times
id'd as not being
hood, ghetto or ratchet
enough too
and
God forbid
if the proper English
is not yet broken
do we even sound black enough?
and
if too woke
should we possibly fall asleep
for ignorance to jaywalk
our high intelligence quotient
and
if too conscious
does it makes more sense
to dumb down the common sense
or
shall we fear
having our black card revoked
because we chose
to change
the negative narratives
into positive ones...
💜D'ElegantOne
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