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Poetry: Ignorance

by Ms P. K. Styles

Created on: August 01, 2008

I don't have nine illegitimate children.

I don't have ANY children.

I have a high school diploma.

I went to college and I'm going back this Fall.

I DO care about education and I've probably read more books than you could count.

I have never been arrested.

I have never used nor have I sold illegal drugs.

I have never been a part of a gang.

I didn't grow up in the ghetto.

I don't shoplift.

I don't roll my head around on my neck when I talk.

I'm not loud in public.

I don't listen to rap music or support its crude lyrics.

I don't have shiny rims on my car.

I believe O.J. Simpson should have fried.

I don't depend on a man to get by.

I don't hate white people.

I don't use every opportunity via articles, books, and other media, etc
To abuse white people and put minorities on a pedestal.

I'm not a great dancer and I suck at sports.

I'm not a hooping, hollering Baptist
I don't even believe in god.

I despise watermelon.

I don't care if a black man dates a white woman.

I am all of this and . . .
I am also a black woman.

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