My Black Is Beautiful

Your Opinions Speak Louder Than Me

To all the people of color who have been labeled as ghetto before a word even left their mouth this is for you.

Because of my skin tone I've been constantly judged since birth

I don't know it all but I know I deserve to be treated with more respect after all I was put on earth so that I may create something exquisite

But why is that people expect everything that comes out of my mouth to be something explicit

I am more than what I appear to be, if only they'd listen to me then they could perhaps finally see

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I am walking image myself, but why is that when you think of me the only word that comes to mind is ghetto

Now I'll be the first one to admit I can have a little bit of fun and my voice may seem as if it is going into a falsetto but don't you ever fall a second into thinking that is what makes me ghetto

It's funny because the people they look up to are influenced by people like me but somehow they're able to pull it off and make it look better but when I do it's just plain ole ghetto

And before I even had a chance to give you something to bleep you already had your mind made up that I was just another uneducated ghetto person roaming through the streets

All these words that you conjured about me don't even begin to define me

And you should really understand I am not ghetto because I am black and others should not be black because they are ghetto

So next time before you feel the need to judge me why don't you talk to me first because I know for a fact your opinions speak louder than me