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Rhonda Exinor

Hey you, wanna play?
If you play and if you stay,
one of us might be your friend someday.

Hey you.
What are you doing?
You can be the dog, or maybe a tree.
No, you can't be the wife, your skin is not light like me.

Hey you, what did you say?
You can't like Barry
How can he, when he can only
see you during the day?

Hey you.
I light your picture.
But maybe you should use the darker crayon.
Oh, and don't forget to make your lips and forehead a little bigger!

Hey you!
Sorry for the part!
You understand right?
Annie's not dark.

Hey you, do you wanna play?
It's just a role for the newscast
To show some variety.

Hew you!
What are you doing?
You like WHITE men?!
HA! Good luck being invited to our next reunion!

Hey you, what did you say?
Your tongue spits of intellectual words.
How did you get that way?

Hey you.
We liked your picture!
How about next time you don't use a filter?

Hey you!
Congratulations on that job.
You know, if it weren't for you being a black... or even a woman
they would've probably just given it to Brian or Rob.

Who me?
You think that I care about what you say?
Or that you think the hair I wear I made of hay?

You think I want to hear you bitch and moan
and things we still tease me about even after we've grown.

You forget that I have potential.
And beautiful in a way
that no one has ever been able to explain to you in that way.

Well, guess what?
I'm here and I've made my stay
and honestly, I couldn't care less about the words you have to say.

Thank you.

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