Naja Austin

Dear white people

You are no longer allowed to hold grudges Tortured lives or just mere black and brown faces Everything you do is so blatant and public

 

Dear white people

It’s more than just black and white More like what’s white and what’s not

 

Dear white people

It’s more than then saying the word nigga

If you understood you would get the bigger picture

Your own President who would poison y’all minds making you even sicker Who a public figure?

Not for me

See this is the land of the free But that ticket was never for me

Drag my people here then tell us to leave Some of us were already here

But why should I speak when no one cares

 

Dear white people

The hate you give was never reciprocated Making things complicated

treating melanin like melanoma that left the skin tainted

 

Dear white people

You hate me because of my skin? You tell me I’m evil

As if god would cover me from my chin to my shin with sin?

 

Dear white people

I don’t want a sloppy apology I want change

After all these years everything still remains the same

I want my children to grow up and to never have to feel my pain So much heartache and drain

 

To see black women and black men still unfree of these heavy chains

 

Dear white people

We are not your enemies

As you were convinced all these centuries