Loud, ignorant, ghetto and robust
That’s what they shout, holla, and think of US
Hoodrat, skank, and always hoes
Say we ain’t got no class but, hell, what do they know?
Baby momma’s, homereckers, thieves, and lies
When they see us on the street they roll they eyes
Interesting how our “brotha’s” ain’t even got our backs
Maybe that’s why we angry cuz wassup with that?
Imma sista and yes I do have a problem
But everyone too damn busy to solve it
So I’m LOUD not because I don’t have home training
But because no one cares to listen to my “complaining”
I am not just a female that gets all the slack
But I am a women who just happens to be BLACK
I’m ghetto if that is what you wanna call it
But I was born to poor parents who were alcoholics
I may be robust but that’s cuz how I was raised
By women who all share my same shape!
You can call me a skank because I don’t close my thighs
But I don’t know how to sit; I never learned how to be polite
Excuse me if I’m not good with this arithmetic
In my culture if you can cook then baby that’s it!
I know you think I am promiscuous but that’s not the case
A stereotype made from masta of my slave sista’s who he use to chase
So I’m sorry if I may seem like a mad black women cuz maybe I am
I’m a woman and black, a double negative
I’m not just viewed as being inferior to my male counterparts but to all
And to be desired by whom, no one at all
My natural hair is proclaimed as ugly and unwanting
And 44.5% of us won’t get married, so who wants me?
I am almost expected to be a single mother and end up alone
And dare try to be the president, ha,t I’d be scold.
I am tough on the outside cuz inside I’m weak
Never been taught strength because I don’t have no daddy!
My black exterior goes deeper than my skin
It’s my essence, my being, my slave kin.
I am reminded everyday walking down the street
My mirror image of me is not what’s Beauty
Even though I got sista’s out there that make good names for my race
People still look down on me and spit on my face
Instead of fighting and trying to keep up with their pace,
I am left with nothing but shame
For myself, and it hurts like a knife going through my chest
Especially when our brotha’s say those things, whose suppose to know us best!
Who suppose to know how it feels to walk in our shoes
So please forgive us society for we not know what we do,
But yes I am Angry,
Sad,
Ugly,
And Alone,
Stuck in a country that is not my African home
And you’d see that being angry is all you can do
If you were a Black Women in America too.