Boycott the dark girl!
Don’t tell them about race; Middle America
doesn’t want to face your afros and wide nose,
your full lips and round hips.
Boycott the dark girl!
Rip open your blouse, measure the humpback
on which a nation’s edifices are housed,
count the scars from raw cowhide
whipped in formation of a chokecherry plantation.
Boycott the dark girl!
Mend your heartstrings across the violin bridge,
play an empowering song with the bow of your fist.
Splash shades of brown through the stadium field—
a prism of acceptance, their politics must yield.
Boycott the dark girl!
A call for peace, an end to violence
is an attack, they say.
You were beaten, raped,
your genitals dissected and put on display.
Dance on the boycott, dark girl;
Hatred can’t make them turn you away.
Your purple skin is imperial; reclaim your domain
as you slay on the stage in Black Panther berets.
—Nortina
Powerful especially the ending with the Balck Panther Beret.
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*Black*
need an edit button 🙂
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Ha! I knew what you meant 🙂
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Thanks! There’s so much negativity associated with the BPP, I wanted to leave it with an image of empowerment, not hatred 🙂
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This is true poetry and truly excellent. Always interesting to see poems on topical subjects. Very proud of artists that make important statements whether in front of audiences of millions during a Super Bowl Halftime or on their blog. Important messages always stir discussion, not all of it orderly, reasonable or harmonic.
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Thank you. Some people may not like or appreciate it, but it’s important that it stirs discussion that will hopefully lead to education.
Thanks for reading!
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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