I am a child of God.
The son of parents
who worked hard
to provide me opportunities
they didn’t have.
 
I am not a real nigga
 
I am a black baby boy
trying to find my way
in a world that wants to
destroy me.
 
I am not a real nigga
 
I am a black youth
that grew up in an
environment of violence,
struggling to figure out
why some of my people
have a perverted fascination
with all things ignorant.
 
I am not a real nigga
 
I am a young black man
that wants to marry a black woman
and raise a black family.
Black babies need to see their
parents as husband and wife
not baby daddy, baby mama.
 
I am not a real nigga
 
I am a black man
that wants to be a good role model
since there are so few of us.
The world is down on us,
Black Women are down on us.
I’m trying to break the cycle of stereotypes
but they are made of the hardest thing on Earth,
minds that are reluctant to change.

I am not a real nigga

Thank you for sharing this affirmation. I will read this to my son who like many teen boys, young and old men of color are faced with many challenges created to destroy and separate them from the goodness/greatness of who they are meant to be.

Amen and blessings for the Street Poet

Desta

“Writing is a potion of devotion, magical, mysterious and mighty” Desta

"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore. ”
Zora Neale Hurston

poignant, veracious, healing. Too often in the middle of this war the enemy becomes the very things we created to survive what we have become in the midst of doing battle. now the enemy mind is me, worse than the nigga I was said to be...

"keep pennin till the earth birth's your rightful seed then nurture it wit more ink..."
ASIEM
"Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran
(Be and it is)
" A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder




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Right title for a righteous piece

I see Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and so many other young blk males
that have been victimized, by violence in our society, GREAT ONE!

they showed us phYsically, we could reach infinitY, but mentally, through the century, we lost our identitY
-Rakim

An excellent positive affirmation. Nicely done.

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
- Robert Frost

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