What Is It Like being Black?
What is it like being Black?
Do you drink 40’s and sell Crack?
Or do you steal from others
Because they shot one of your brothers?
What is it truly like being Black?
Full of anger and resentment towards Whites?
Always acting like a bunch of hypocrites?
Never on the right track?
To me, being Black
Is not about demeaning women
Or rocking the new Air Jordans
To me, it’s being true to yourself and not what others deem you to be.
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