You know just because I’m black doesn’t mean I am loud and ghetto,

I mean don’t get me wrong I am proud of my loud outspoken brothers and sisters and that doesn’t make them any less of a person than anyone else. 

And that doesn’t make them uneducated.

Just because I am black doesn’t mean me talking “slang” means I don’t know how to talk “proper English”.

By the way its called AAVE, which is African American Vernacular English. 

Yes this is a real thing, look it up and learn my history.

Just because I am black doesn’t mean I am mean or have bad intentions.

My people have grown up fighting for their right to live their lives, my people have grown up told they are not human and that they are worthless. 

You wonder why I am angry? Look up pictures of my ancestors being hung by the KKK just because they believe that our lives are not as important as theirs. 

Why am I so angry? Maybe because society for the past 400 years have put me and my people down and have created a system that will never work in our favor.

But thats okay, because in the next 10 to 20 years we will not be the minorities anymore, and the system will have to shift. 

Just because I am a black woman doesn’t mean I want 3 baby daddies to pay for child support so I can get my nails done on a regular.

No I work multiple jobs and pay for that shit myself. Because I am a strong independent black woman!

Just because I’m a black woman doesn’t mean my rights are any less important than white women’s. 

Did you know my black sisters had to wait an extra hundred years just to get the same rights as white women?

Just because I am a black woman, doesn’t mean I am a freak. 

Whatever my sexuality is, no you may not exploit me and make me feel like I don’t have the option to say no. 

My body, my rights. 

Just because I’m a black man doesn’t mean I am selling dope because I thing it’s cool and I am a thug. 

Did you ever think that at a time in my life I made a mistake just like my white brothers, but I got harsher consequences for it so now my record says I am a criminal and makes me “unemployable.” 

Just because I’m a black man doesn’t mean I am scary and ready to jump anyone who walks in my path. 

Just because I am a black man does not mean I am a delinquent, it just means I have emotions too and with the society we live in today the only way I am aloud to show those emotions is through violence and anger. 

Just because I am black doesn’t mean I am not resilient, if anything I have more resilience than half you white mutha fuckuas who claim to “work just as hard.”

Tell me do you work just as hard to not get shot when you are walking at night with your hood up?

Tell me please do you work as hard to fit the white social standard just to be considered competent enough for a job?

I can’t even wear my hair the way it naturally is without getting stares in awe as if I am a wild animal. 

Or being told that my hair is not very “professional”.

I can’t even have a culture without it becoming a new “trend” by the Kardashians. 

Yeah I’m black. 

And I sure as hell am proud of it. 

A Black American. 

My culture is music, the birth of jazz, rhythm and blues, and Hip-Hop.

My culture is dancing the 1 2 step. 

My culture is soul food.

My culture is making less more, because that is the only option we have. 

My culture is having faith and family. 

Just because I’m black doesn’t mean I am worth any less than the white folk over there, it just means my history was built from slavery, oppression, and pain. 

But we build off of that, and if anything me being a black American is the best blessings god has ever given me. 

I know about experiences that some Americans could never imagine surviving. 

So please, a message to the media, to society, to the world..

STOP HATING ON MY BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

We are trying. 

Just because I’m black doesn’t mean y’all shouldn’t appreciate me, because I appreciate all the cultures. 

Just because I’m black… man just because I’m black.