Poemranker [Replying] Fri Nov 22 08:53:32 PST 2024

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Proud to be black (Other) by girl

Swinging my hips as i walk Gesticulating beningly as i talk Why should i regard their didain? or drop to my knees and plea for acceptance. The breeze provoked my afro puffs as i relax on the seashore My smmoth dark skin gleamed and my eyes sparkle as the sun tends to smile more. They screwed up their faces as if they smell a dead rat. However my superb shimmering smile remained.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.

11-Jul-02/5:26 PM

It's people like you that give anti-racism a bad name. Can't you distinguish between not being ashamed to be <x> and being proud to be <x>? I'm not ashamed to be a human. But neither am I proud of it. I didn't do anything to achieve it. It doesn't make me better, in a moral sense than anything else. There is no conceivable reason why I should be proud of it. You are clearly not ashamed of being black, which I'm sure is fine and dandy. But why are you proud of it? Did you earn it? Does it make you a better person? I'm tempted to think this is a joke, since it is such an amazingly hackneyed and pointless expression of the 'self-esteem' that gets shoved down people's throats every time they leave their house or turn on their TV.

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