Colored Clorox
I hate being black
you bathe the sun
while I take baths in bleach
when I take showers I scrub my skin till I see the white bone underneath
it's not fair that I can't be the same color as my pearl white teeth
it's not fair that my Melanin shows like defeat
I hate being black
I hate how the color of my skin always get defeated by the white end
I can't ever go to class
without being stopped in the hallways and asked what I'm doing
get kicked out when I try to go to tutoring
Because They Assume That I Have No Where I Should Be Going
I HATE BEING BLACK!
I HATE HOW MY COLOR GOT SO MUCH LACK
I FEEL AS IF I CAN'T BE A QUEEN
BECAUSE I'M NOT DIS AND DAT
Because I can't scrub the dirt off
To show I'm all dat
I HATE IT!
I HATE IT!
I HATE IT!
I. fake.. it...
that I love the beautiful brown skin that shows Within...
But only if I was still black... But light skin...
I JUST WANT TO APPRECIATE ME IN MY OWN SKIN!
In the mirror there's just a Monkey with Dirt Skin,
A Black Face with Red Lips, no Hips, and tears on a Blue Crip
BABY POWDER On MY BODY just to show that I Exist
Just To Show that my love can be relentless
My jokes can be ridiculous.
My attitude… Not Be So Hideous
Why? because I Pat my head and You say four instead of foe
And that's such a problem that I Got To Go
I HATE BEING BLACK! AND I DON'T WANNA BE IT NO MOE!
I'm hurt from the outside.
I'm hurt from the inside.
I cry on both sides.
I Will Hide Until I Die
I AM FRUSTRATED!
My Color will cause my Suicide...
I Just want to be appreciated.
Show my background and let the racist hate it.
Someday I'll have a baby and a New Color will be Created.
I need to appreciate my color now
cause maybe, one day, she will hate it
I HATE BEING BLACK
I hate how I can't love my skin and let my beauty show within.
I hate how I let my dirt bury me 10 feet under the ground where my cries can never make a sounddd...
I HATE!!!
How I could never love myself the way I do now
I HATE IT!
I HATE IT!
I HATE IT!
I COULDN'T SAY IT BEFORE
NOW I CAN EXPRESS IT
I CAN ADDRESS IT
I LOVE BEING BLACK!
and me and my daughter can show you That!
THE Brown Dirt on my skin I Am PROUD of that.
The COLORED CLOROX THAT I BATHE IN YOU CAN HAVE IT BACK!
IMMA SAY IT ONE MORE TIME
AND IMA SAY IT AGAIN
I LOVE BEING BLACK
I LOVE IT
I LOVE IT
I LOVE IT
NIGGA!