Dear My People

You want me to outdo the white people when I cannot

Because I am being oppressed by my own people

I say I want to go to a majority white college and you say I must go to an HBCU

You tell me they won’t understand the things that I do

So I need to go to Langston and not OSU

Saying black people will help pay more for my school

Well with a mind like this money was never the issue

I am a human made of darker colored tissue

I breathe, run, and jump just like they do

So tell me my people why can’t I go to their school?

Our people fought for years to integrate schools

Now you telling me to do the opposite of what they wanted me to do

Saying the only people who want to help me have brown skin and nappy hair

Did you forget during the civil rights movement, it was white people there?

Yes they oppressed us, and hurt us and messed up

But do not try to stop those who want to help us

Call me an uncle tom if you feel it is needed

Because you’re narrow-mindedness is getting me heated

I can’t believe we segregate ourselves

In the time that I live in we “separate but equal” as hell

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