Challenge
Write about a person, place, or thing related to Black History. Dead or alive. Real or imagined. Offensive or uplifting. Make the reader feel deeply about the Black experience in America, even if you are not Black. The winner will receive $50 cash money from me, and be featured on my social media platforms.
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A child’s eyes
Momma’s a beauty
With long auburn hair
His mammy’s hair is nappy black
Demo’s my brother
His hair is gilden
But not straight like Daddy’s and mine
Nobody speaks what
Everybody knows -
Why Demo won’t ever come back
His mammy cries and
Brushes Momma’s hair.
I’ll grow up beautiful and fine!
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I thought of a nine-year-old girl, daughter of the plantation, and how she might react to the sale of her playmate/brother. There might be some sorrow, but she wouldn't question the order of things.