Something needs to change
Something need to change something needs to change
When did we start are hating selfs
When did black male posting status like I don't like black girls I'm a afraid of the dark became norm?
Is really like that cuase you must be afraid of the mirror wasn't bad enough when actor paint themselves black to like us now that those time are over this comments are come from us, team light skin team dark skin skin all ever see you might as well be saying if your in a house or on the field. Gasp omg not what I mean guess what
New words same mean all in know
Something need to change oh something needs to change oh
When did we start are hating selfs
Maybe it's media always showing girl talking about her weave or guy smoking some weed. Or all these reality shows and songs with baby mom this or gangsta guy that but we all still watch, it listen and promote it. So in the middle of this shoving it down throat we began to think that this our life role. Girls making twerk video hoping for some fame, guy joining gang just to make some dirty money. We forgot about all respectful people who came before us who became the authority's that used to locked us up the dancers who finaly preform brodway not just 125. Maby when your enjoying it this just don't come in the mix but
Something need to change something needs to change
When did we start are hating selfs
So maybe it's all not bad becuase were "taking things backs" are once freak show worth full lips and wide hips are now being envy put on plastic surgents list. But when we start dying for hard ware store injections and hormonal pill injestion. To keep up with this steagopic and gentailia expection to avoid rejection we need to start correctin. Cuase I really doubt behaving like that is respecting memory of people like Saartjie. Who you probably don't know as she not in your text book but if you do learn today youll see the life of women who was "caked up" before she could be video vixen. How her remains was a studied 174 year as med school condition
Something need to change something needs to change life is so confuse these day having we had enough all expectation, improper representation, it still oppression. This some serious frustration
This for everyone who had ancestors passed threw gate or been opressed in any way let the ignorance stop with you today no should be expected or rejected Becuase they Dress, wear, say, or look certaint way if you don't care remember that no matter how much surgery, sun block or bleach and cream mixture in jar you appile on your face one drop "poisoned" you everything you do is represent us. So frankly this is must
Something need to change oh something needs to change oh
When did we start are hating selfs
Something need to change something needs to change
When did we start are hating selfs
When did black male posting status like I don't like black girls I'm a afraid of the dark became norm?
Is really like that cuase you must be afraid of the mirror wasn't bad enough when actor paint themselves black to like us now that those time are over this comments are come from us, team light skin team dark skin skin all ever see you might as well be saying if your in a house or on the field. Gasp omg not what I mean guess what
New words same mean all in know
Something need to change oh something needs to change oh
When did we start are hating selfs
Maybe it's media always showing girl talking about her weave or guy smoking some weed. Or all these reality shows and songs with baby mom this or gangsta guy that but we all still watch, it listen and promote it. So in the middle of this shoving it down throat we began to think that this our life role. Girls making twerk video hoping for some fame, guy joining gang just to make some dirty money. We forgot about all respectful people who came before us who became the authority's that used to locked us up the dancers who finaly preform brodway not just 125. Maby when your enjoying it this just don't come in the mix but
Something need to change something needs to change
When did we start are hating selfs
So maybe it's all not bad becuase were "taking things backs" are once freak show worth full lips and wide hips are now being envy put on plastic surgents list. But when we start dying for hard ware store injections and hormonal pill injestion. To keep up with this steagopic and gentailia expection to avoid rejection we need to start correctin. Cuase I really doubt behaving like that is respecting memory of people like Saartjie. Who you probably don't know as she not in your text book but if you do learn today youll see the life of women who was "caked up" before she could be video vixen. How her remains was a studied 174 year as med school condition
Something need to change something needs to change life is so confuse these day having we had enough all expectation, improper representation, it still oppression. This some serious frustration
This for everyone who had ancestors passed threw gate or been opressed in any way let the ignorance stop with you today no should be expected or rejected Becuase they Dress, wear, say, or look certaint way if you don't care remember that no matter how much surgery, sun block or bleach and cream mixture in jar you appile on your face one drop "poisoned" you everything you do is represent us. So frankly this is must
Something need to change oh something needs to change oh
When did we start are hating selfs
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I love this poem because it says what everyone else is either afraid to or ignorant of- that all those civil rights campaigns and all this "new equality" won over with much blood is dearly un-noticed and waved away by popular culture. It isn't easy to encompass today's entanglement in yesterday's oppression but this poem does so effectively.