Black People : Black enough for you?

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Ok...how do you know when someone isn't "black enough?"

I'm up in Harlem and I stop at a table to get some Black Soap...here goes the brother, "Whatchoo know about that?" and he was dead serious...no joke...

ok...what do I need, an afro with the pick and fist at the top? a dashiki? dreads?

Why do we have to seem black? why is it when kids speak proper english they sound like a white kid?

What is a black person but a soul clothed in dark skin?

What is with this proving one's blackness?
 
judgement call

i used 2 fall n2 that trap on a regular basis when i was younger. so & so isn t really dwn w the cause, & so on. gradually, i ve com 2 realize that accusations, finger pointing & outward directed evaluations r much ez'er than rigorous introspection. thats not 2 say that i don t sometimes lapse, even 2day, but i usu am able 2 catch myself from falling n2 that trap.

besides, there r plenty of folk walking around dressed n daskiki & dreds w processed minds, so who am i 2 judge?
 
Ok...how do you know when someone isn't "black enough?"

I'm up in Harlem and I stop at a table to get some Black Soap...here goes the brother, "Whatchoo know about that?" and he was dead serious...no joke...

ok...what do I need, an afro with the pick and fist at the top? a dashiki? dreads?

Why do we have to seem black? why is it when kids speak proper english they sound like a white kid?

What is a black person but a soul clothed in dark skin?

What is with this proving one's blackness?

Well I'm sure the militant black nationalist experts can answer this one. Let's see if they will. I doubt have answer now as any did in 2002.
 

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