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Our Black is Beautiful

This poem is to empower my peers to embrace their melanin.

Jasmine Searcy

Oct 03, 2016

Alabama A&M

Everyday Feminism

Our Black is Beautiful

Black is supposed to be beautiful
Different shades of beauty
Different shapes of beauty
Different styles of beauty

Society has distorted our beauty
It has shaped our minds and character into disfigurement
We no longer know what true beauty looks like

We are so caught up in materialistic things and gadgets that we are lost
We care more about clothes and cars than our people in poverty
We care more about fighting then helping each other

We care more about what our fake hair looks like than what our children have to eat
We care more about being rappers or athletes than making a real living with real goals in life
We are not what reality television has described us to be
We are not what other races want us to be

We are black
We are beauty
We are a nation that needs to stop and be still
We are a nation that needs to stand together and become peaceful

No longer do we need wars on each other
No longer do we need our sons and brothers overcrowding prisons
No longer do we need our daughters and sisters to know what the streets are
No longer do we need our mothers and fathers running away from homes
No longer do we need no one teaching our children about our history

We need peace
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream for his generations future
What's yours?

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1. Leslie Knope from "Parks and Recreation"

2. Liz Lemon from "30 Rock"

3. Meredith Grey from "Grey's Anatomy"

4. Olivia Pope from "Scandal"

5. Blair Waldorf from "Gossip Girl"

6. Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex and The City"

7. Annalise Keating from "How to Get Away With Murder"

8. Mindy Lahiri from "The Mindy Project"

9. Lisa Cuddy from "House, M.D."

10. The "Friends" Girls (Monica Geller, Rachel Greene, and Phoebe Buffay) from "Friends"

11. Temperance Brennan from "Bones"

12. Kate Beckett from "Castle"

13. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles from "Rizzoli and Isles"

14. Olivia Benson from "Law and Order: SVU"

15. Robin Scherbatsky from "How I Met Your Mother"

Ugh, why is it so hard to be mean?

1. You are honestly kind of offended when people say you are a nice person

2. People think it’s cute when you act sassy

3. You always have people who annoy you but will not stop following you around

4. You often have trouble deciding how you want to present yourself to people

5. You have probably never actually hurt someone’s feelings

6. Finding friends is such a struggle

7. But actually, that is a joke because your flexible personality allows you to be friends with many people

8. You are secretly kind of (actually downright) jealous of queen bees, especially those from TV shows

9. You often read articles with titles such as “24 Reasons You're A Sasshole,” thinking they are going to be so relatable….

10. Sometimes you get really mad and wish you could actually come across as a total bitch…

11. …but at the end of the day, you are thankful for how nice you are

Every girl is guilty of number two.

You cut people off - fast!

Queen of Creeping.

When you need to let others know exactly who you are.

Making new friends is not an easy task.

You have no problem tellin' it like it is.

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You judge what other girls are wearing - hard.

Only your best friends see your emotions.

You've mastered the fake personality.

You have your very own Chuck Bass.

If your plans get cancelled, there is a 99.9% percent chance you are sleeping.

"There is only one tree hill, Jaime Scott."

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