A black author

 A black author 

Wrote black history books 

And black readers read them 

And suddenly their feelings are 

Hurt….cos a black author spoke the 

Truth…a black author travels 

Doin a lot of research 

Diggin every bone of our ancestors 

From the soil..

Still the black readers are ungrateful 

Cos they’re not familiar with 

Brilliant gems…

They used to readin white explorers

And how the white man is the hero…

So they quit readin black history books…

They’re scared of critical thinkin…

Put those books back in the shelves 

Cos their hearts can’t take facts…

They don’t like seein the words 

That says Jesus is not real…

Has this happened before?

To a black author 

Who published many books 

Of our own historical events?

Although we get triggered 

When slavery mentioned 

Sometimes we put it away 

Or skip pages…can you blame us?

However 

Black readers

If y’all don’t know your black history 

And miseducated and 

Your old teachers indoctrinated your 

Beautiful minds…

Please educate yourselves 

Don’t be an illiterate 

When it comes to our past…

Yet it’s been doomed to repeat…

Even if these real life memoirs 

Somebody experiences 

Broke your souls, 

It can help strengthen 

Your thoughts 

Your empathy 

Your understandin

It will help you learn to 

Love your blackness….

A black author 

Isn’t tryin to be cruel 

With the black readers 

She or he is savin  

More room for them to a 

Voice too…

More room to breathe in 

Their black space…

Our people need to 

Read…

Especially black history books 

And racism 

Why does it exist?

I get it 

A black reader 

Lives in a colorblind society 

And we get along with everyone 

Then you chose a book 

About black people

You get upset 

You don’t like what he or she wrote 

It made you mad…

I didn’t have that experience…

A black author has opened my eyes 

Real wide

Ever since then

I was hotepin 

Black history books 

Are not for everybody 

But sometimes 

You need to educate 

Yourself 

Especially when you’re a black person…

Schools will not teach the truth…

So go ahead 

Find a good black author 

Who makes you feel uncomfortable 

Who makes truths alive on paper…

Cos when a black author loves 

His or her people,

He or she will encourage them 

To use their brains

And hearts to unlock the chains 

For liberation…

To let go of white man ghost…

💯✊🏿©️Kai C. 11-9-26

He said I want a light skinned girl

 He said i want a light skinned girl…

He said i want a light skinned girl 

Cos she's prettier…

More better than a dark skinned girl…

A light skinned girl is closer to whiteness…

Is it that shallow?

Sounds like a slavemaster talkin points?

He wants a lighter skinned girl…

She’s still black 

Even if she’s mixed…

Why is black community 

Carryin white man’s ideas?

Those colorism ideas of 

What’s beautiful 

What’s not…

It’s the sickest way of thinkin 

And I don’t like how dark skinned girls are treated….

They didn’t do anythin 

They exist 

And some black people don't like them…

They don’t like dark skinned boys either…

What’s worse is that dark skin developed 

Lowest self esteem 

Self hate…

It’s been passed down from colonizers to 

Endless generations….

I’m still hearin a 

Black man said 

I want a light skinned girl…

Light skinned girl is a dream girl 

To marry 

To love

Society celebrates light skinned all the time 

And watch dark skinned girls bleached their skin 

To become beautiful 

To capture attention….

I blame oppression 

I blame propaganda 

I blame slavery 

Cos look at those poor melaninated minds 

Not appreciatin dark skinned people 

I still don’t understand 

The phase of you’re too pretty for a dark skinned girl…

What the fuck is that? 

How can it be mad disrespectful?

Let me tell you somethin

Black people are gorgeous…

Ok?

Light skin 

Dark skin 

We is some beautiful people 

White people are wickedly jealous 

Of us….

All that colorism bull shit came 

From slaveowners 

Who divided us 

It’s the Willie Lynch shit…..

We have hauled it down in our dna 

To teach our babies how to hate themselves 

Without knowin the history behind that 

Certain abuse…

We should teach them how to love 

Themselves take much pride of 

Their own melanin…

When he said 

I want a light skinned girl 

As his wife 

He sounds like a 

Slavemaster 

No disrespect 

But he seems to hate 

Dark skinned…

First of all 

Ain’t nothin wrong with dark chocolate 

Why does he gotta hate dark chocolate?

Is he the night sky, too?

The sun gave him filter of stars 

He cannot hate himself 

He cannot hate his mama 

Nor his grandma

He came from the darkest womb 

I would like to say 

Blackness is every race’s favorite color 

But we ain’t monolith 

We ain’t a trend

We ain’t a hashtag 

Nor a statement 

We got soul 

And for him to say That 

He wants no dark skinned woman 

Cos he doesn’t like himself….

If he didn’t have a colorism 

Pastin in his heart

Then he loves black women

Doesn’t matter if she’s light skinned 

Or dark skinned 

As long as she’s a good black woma…

White supremacy gave birth to colorism…

Not us 

We subconsciously adapted to it 

Unfortunately…

✊🏿💯©️Kai C. 11-9-26