"Having Soul"

Podslam.org poet, Cassie Poe shares her perspective on bi-racial life in the U.S. and racist attitudes.

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Film & Animation

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• poetry
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• identity
• race
• racism

[SableYork]

Holy Shit. That gave me chills. Thank you so much for sharing. Amazing.

[Magic9053]

I'm not Biracial, but I know people who are and some just deny thier blackness altogether and "pass" for white (if thier skin is light enough), others are superafrocentric and will go out of thier way to "prove" thier blackness, it can go either way, but GREAT POEM !

[nattybongo]

Bless up Sistah, powerful.

[sisteroftopaz]

[APPLAUDING]: Excellent presentation.  I hope you mind that I share this poem with the members of my sisterhood, The Topaz Club, over at Facebook. This is a very inspirational poem.

[Sepia1789]

Very empowering and truthful!

[landfair03]

This is absolutely amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!

[chsn09]

Great video!!!!! Excellent! Speak it sista!!

[p8anut]

dang! loved this!

[Foxgurl995]

I'm stunned. Having heard this I feel... inadequate.

[lizzyh1]

1975... I was one of 15% of white students at an inner-city high school in Hartford, Connecticut. We were standing outside our school waiting to go in after having participated in a gymnastics meet at a school across town. Kids were playing on the basketball court and one called over, "How y'all gonna win anything with a white girl on your team?" Without missing a beat, my friend yelled back, "She ain't white... she's vanilla!"