Voluntary Negro
VOLUNTARY NEGRO
if
i didn’t know
who I was,
would I be your voluntary negro?
shhh
we don’t say
that word anymore
negro
who gave that word power?
Ni**er!
is that better?
worse?
does it make you squirm?
feel uncomfortable?
it doesn’t bother me
until
it’s uttered from the lips
of those who use it
to cut down to the bone
i am not your voluntary negro
i do not believe
i am less than anyone
some would have you believe
their evolution
eclipsed ours long ago
that a slave mentality
is all we should hold
that we will never be more
i beg to differ
KL.
Copyright © Kimberly Larocca | Year Posted 2020
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