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At the age of THREE, I realized people didn’t look like ME. As I grew older I realize everyone wasn’t treated EQUALLY. At first I didn’t UNDERSTAND! As times went on I started to COMPREHEND. That two words black and society was compared to God and SIN. We as black people have a huge RESPONSIBILITY! Many people judge us on our IDENITY, Like it is our fault, we were born with COLOR. Like they don’t understand from the beginning, we all were sisters and BROTHERS! Like we all can’t trace our lineage back to the same MOTHER. God never meant white and black to hate each OTHER. I admit I embraced the color black at a young AGE! At the same time embraced the color black with RAGE! It’s time to REALIZE, color wasn’t just on the OUTSIDE! Yellow, red, blue, and WHITE, can have a black LIFE I know at this point, you probably don’t understand these words I WRITE! That is why God sent me to give you more INSIGHT. I never UNDERSTOOD! Why, black always means negative! White was always GOOD! It is evident in the Bible and the dictionary, that black is INTOLERABLE. In simple words black is HORRIBLE. While I was studying the DICTIONARY, It made black sound SCARY! It had words like BLACKMAIL. It had other words that took my BREATH! Like the black plague and BLACKDEATH. It had words that sounded so TRAGIC, like blackness, and other words like BLACKMAGIC! The more I read about black, questions started to ARISE? As thunderstorms, hurricanes, monsoons, and always brings BLACKSKIES! As having a blackheart, brings on a black DEMISE! As I thought and read, why are they trying to convince me with BLACKLIES? I was then told no matter what color you are there is still one GOAL!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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