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I love at the beginning when she uses the combing of the hair to illustrate the history of black people. Going from a very slick and cool modern day image back to the slave trade where treatment of black people was less than human. Great poet. I don't think she's being racist... either way it's a great poem!!
I dunno about blaming caucasians... the fact is that she's here - we're here and the rape of slaves is the reality of how and why some of us are mixed... there's no blame as such, its just the horror of the past that many of us spawn from... sayin all that she's wicked man! pure fire!!!
She describes her hair's idiosyncrasies in a humorous way in the beginning. However, the poem takes a dark turn when she alludes to the rape of enslaved women and the resulting biracial children. In light of the humorous tone used in the beginning I believe she uses such a graphic element to emphasize the hurt she may feel when her heritage is questioned or critisized (i.e. "I'm not a cookie!"). However, in doing so it also seems as if she's blaming caucasians; this opens up a new can of worms.
@mrssUsherRaymond well, i know not all biracial people have curls OBVIOUSLY....and i dont like her poem, mixed people dont get ignored at all...if anything pestered with questions like "what are you" personally i have no passionate feelings for race in general...everyone is human, im sick of this subject. instead of harping on race y cant we just celebrate being people? celebrate being individuals...not the fact we may have a few races in us, and using that history to describe ourselfs...
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