Sunday Stew: Unsolicited Advice For A Black Girl Too Light To Be Heavy But Too Heavy To Be WhitePosted in Articles, Autobiography, Media Archive, United States on 2015-04-15 03:24Z by Steven |
Sunday Stew: Unsolicited Advice For A Black Girl Too Light To Be Heavy But Too Heavy To Be White
South Seattle Emerald
2015-04-12
Nikkita Oliver
Painting by Tarra Louis-Charles
In the Style of Jeanann Verlee
Unsolicited Advice for a Black Mixed Girl
Too Light to be Heavy, but too Heavy to be White:
When the girl in your class fixes her lips
to call your mother a “nigger lover”
Fix her face
So next time she thinks twice
Before fixin’ her lips around anyone’s mama
When the kids on the playground start to sing
“Jungle Fever”
Join them
You must live
to fight another day…
Read the entire poem here.