Why is my degree of blackness is based on how much blackness is in my ancestry?
Like the mentality of my oppression declines if I have one drop of slave owner in my blood?
The definition of my worth should not be defined and regulated by your misconceptions and preconceptions of your twisted mind
Your confusion tells me, yes you can see my melanin but my Scottish and Irish ancestry disqualifies me from speaking out
As if the injustices that have been apparent before I was born somehow magically disappears once my ancestry is revealed.
My skin the shade of rich caramel and my hair not too kinky but not too straight
Results in your confusion of my actual race
My degree of blackness and whiteness should not be call into question
Instead of questioning of who and what I should be
Why don't you change your ignorant mind?
Unlike you I straddle two dualities
Two races
Two cultures
And two ideologies
The degree of who I am is defined by me alone
And not on you to decide on who I should be.
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The Coloured Girl Diary
PoetryColoured Thoughts Coloured Perceptions Coloured Ideologies Inner thoughts and ramblings of a girl that refuses to be defined as black or white. Her passions, fantasies, pain and joy are coloured. Hear her. Listen to her. Do not silence her. This i...
