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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Kodachrome
It's a myth, I think
To expect our children not to see color
Instead, shouldn't we see
And celebrate
Our differences
Our sameness
I am a French Canadian
Catholic chick from
Small town
Hickville
I married
A man raised
In the city
Hispanic
Colombian
Our daughter describes
Herself as 98%
Colombian
Cooler, yes
But, a mathematical
Impossibility
Yet
Should my daughter date
A Black man
My in-laws
Would protest
Why?
I cry
White girl
Hickville tears
At their
Hypocrisy