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Color is Beautiful

Est. 2010

By Noemi Saafyr PazPublished 5 years ago 2 min read
Relaxed in my skin and tone...

Some say if my skin was darker , life would be harder

Some say short hair is suitable, but long hair is beautiful

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but if she's ugly I won't hold her

Her style's fucked up, yeah I told her

I can't see anything but the whites in her eyes and teeth

We look whites in the eyes as they look past us to put us in the streets

The system has us beat beat beat our hearts in to the black rapper's soul

Beats and lyrics of stories that unfold

The truth

Blacks expectations is to go through a period without a roof

my skin's light so they don't expect me to say wagwan myute!

Listen to some new flavor in ya ear...

You're concealing the color of your skin with ya fear

And bleach!

If you got a class full of black & brown students they barely teach.

You go to church to hear a hypocrite preach.

Our souls are souls to keep

"Stereotypes of a black male misunderstood,

But it’s still all good “- biggie

Lets throw all the black people into the hoods

No biggie

Lets hand them guns and crooked pigs

Little girls on corners wearing wigs

Who would forget our sins?

So America is set up in this type of colorful race... yet the lightest usually wins

The pigments of our faces are shown threw different loves and races

Embedded thru our kin

Gender is socially constructed

Fuck it though its real

Nothing is sold without sex appeal

Black asses in thongs while Nelly cops a feel

Homie said he needed a tip drill

I wonder how it feels

You already know

Fuck it though it’s real

There’s no such thing as a brown skin with a smart brain

They just call you a college girl if you’re ill on your head game

My sister queens are not dumb bitches

All of the color schemes can be descriptive

My brother kings stop forcing us girls submissive

Stop conforming to fake kisses

Baskets of condoms can be booty call disses

If treated right then it’s you he misses

I’m just sayin, not playin

This is actually suitable

That color is and always will be factually beautiful

slam poetry

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