Black girl - a slam poem

If it is not enough that I am judged by the colour of my skin

by being Black, I am judged by my gender by being a girl as well.

The first thing people think about me is BLACK

and I always get the stares like I was some kind of a freak show

to entertain the white girls seing me as another victim to bully.

Just because I am black I was taught not to ever call myself beautiful

because that is not what beauty means, but you surely wouldn´t call a white

girl white if you first looked at her.

No, you would call hee pretty or cute and that is something I never be, right?

Tell me why are people calling me BLACK and not calling them WHITE?

Oh, I´m sorry that would be racism or I would be simply rude and hurt the

white girls feeling, but it is okay to hate black girls and call them ugly, right?

I´m sorry for my words while you are the ones who are

promoting the idea of everybody being beautiful and I had the guts

to stand up because obviously you are not seing the bigger picture.

If everybody is beautiful that would have to mean that you would stop being

hypicrits because everybody being beautiful means accepting the

shape of their body, the colour fo their hair, the type of their hair, their gender and their race.

But that is just so much to wish for so I am asking you about my abilities.

My mom told me to learn beause it was important to be clever for a good school

and then for a good life.

But society doesn´t think of me as an intelligent person

becasue I am simply defined as black

and my whole life ends there.

Dare I be intelligent or talleted. That is just not what a black girl can be

or as society taught me I am simply black and I have no purpose in life.

I was bullied just because of my skin. I didn´t have to do anything to piss

everybody off. I just simply had to be born. So if I take it from that side I was

bullied for simply existing. I say existing and not colour of my skin because

I had nohing to do with that. How could you change that?

Have a plastic operation t change who I truly am?

What if black people and white poeple switched and

suddenly white would be the "bad and ugly race"?

You would care just then, right?

Because as I know as long as the topic doesn´t concern people then they don´t care.

You know I am not dreaming of being accepted

because that is too much to dream about for a black girl like me.

I am hated and looked at and I always will be.

But you know what?

I don´t care. I won´t change myself or hide into the shadows

to give more light to the people who hate.

I won´t ever stop improving myself and educating myself just

because that is not what I am supposed to do.

Despite what everybody says about me, what everybody calls me,

despite all the bullies out there I am proud to be a black girl

because even though black girls may have fallen down a billion times

they always stood up no matter what and they fought back.

I am proud to be a black girl because I have never seen so many victims

so hated by people, killed by so many and still being so strong to stand up for themselves

and fight the war against them.

#beauty #blackgirl #beyourself #dontcarewhattheysay