White girl

 

To the person who calls me white girl  I thought you were amazing but then you kept calling me "while girl" I felt like an outcast in my own family.  My ancestors weren't taken hostage in the holocaust and they weren't imprisoned by a while person forcing them to be salves. So to you I'm just another person with white privilege.  But I can tell you that yes that is still true in society, but that doesn't mean that my life is any easier than yours, it's just different.  You just see me as a white person with white privilege not someone who has been beaten down by the government, been slammed against lockers in high school hallways, been beaten until bloody then raped by a "family member" for 10 years.  I see that white privilege is a very real thing. I do my best to not use it, but I can't stop being white. I can't change the past and make bad things happen to my family, I can't go back and stop bad things from happening to yours.  All I can do is fight for both of our freedoms and fight for injustices and hope that not everyone has the same feelings towards me as you do.   The little girl in our family only as old as 3 looked up innocently at me and asked what was on my face meaning my freckles but you responded with "she's white"  Ya I'm white but that doesn't mean I'm more or any less than you and that doesn't give you the right to make fun of the fact that I'm white. Because in my genes, my chromosomes tell me that I'm white no matter what I do. As you can't change the fact that you're brown.  I am a person of culture. Many different cultures that I am proud to be a part of. I'm like a polar bear. White but black underneath I'm not a Person of colour black or white or anything in between I am just a human. Who wants to change the world. And I could do that being any colour. It's not the colour the person is, its the person the person is. I hope you'll accept me soon.  After all, I am dating your daughter.  

This poem is about: 
Me
My family
My community
My country
Our world

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