by Tonya Latrice Wilson

Created on: May 16, 2008   Last Updated: December 08, 2010

Don't ask me if I'm from the ghetto,
Or if I'm from the hood.

The hood and the ghetto is the same thing,
and as An African American woman wherever I
grew up should not change your opinion of me.

In America, even though I was born a human being,
I am looked at, as just a baby born black.
However, I don't walk around being ashamed of
my color: feeling depressed, guilty because of my
race, and what short comings that I might lack.

Don't ask me if I'm from the ghetto, Or if I'm from
the hood. The Ghetto, and the hood has always been
Misunderstood: You can't clean it up, nor can you
revive it with words of pity or hate.

Futhermore, please don't talk down to the people that
live there, that has been formed by old stereotypes of
African Americans, and what you think you know about us.

You don't have to trust or love me: because I already
look to God above to love, and to trust me. Nor do you
have to save me, for the Lord above is already my savior.

However, I do wish that all races in America would come
together in unity, and in love. However, if we can not unite,
then, we don't have to be friends, and we don't have to be
enemies either: We don't have to be enemies either.

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