What is a beautiful woman to you?
Is she short or tall?
Thick or thin?
Quiet or loud?
Independant or submissive?
Controlling?
Or likes to be controlled?
Strong or weak?
Black, brown, or white?
What color of woman comes to mind when i ask all these things?
Listen up women
White male america doesnt like us
Even brown males are being tricked to hate us too
They want to stereotype you
They want you to feel ugly
The uglier you feel
The more you buy
The more you buy
The more they sell
The richer they get
The more they exploit
Exploitation is slavery
Slavery never ended
It just moved to other countries
Countries we control
Countries full of brown skin people
Brown skin women
Workin 18 hours a day
7 Days a week
Still starvin
Can't feed their kids
Still hopeful
To one day be like us
Us who are trapped
Trapped in a cycle
To exploit others to survive
Workin 50 hours a week
And still ain't makin shit
What can we do
Still gotta shop at the dollar store
Feelin bad
Cuz brown people makin a few dollars a day
So we can get that dollar deal
Using products made from blood and sweat
White girls bakin in tannin booths
Gettin skin cancer at 40
Brown girls bleachin their skin
Told they shoulda been born high yella
White girls permin their hair to make it curl
Brown girls permin their hair straight
Both using burnin cream on scalps
White girls wantin full lips
Implanting collegen
Lookin like misfits
Brown girls shakin their head
Laughin at white girls thinkin it's a trend
To the so called ultra feminine
To the so called amazon woman
In eldrige cleaver's souls on ice
Were all subject to america's vice
Hating our sisters
Hating ourselves
Hiding who we are
Were all different
But not so different
Embrace your beauty
Embrace your sister's beauty
Sisters you ask?
I thought only black girls were sistas
Or wimmin who burn bras
And become lesbians were sisters
No i say
Were all sisters
Because in the end
America will still pretend
Pretend to embrace our diversity
But still sow the seeds of hate
Tryin to twist our mind
Makin us all behind
It's not too late
Let's start an uprise
Like maya angelou says
"And still i rise"
(C)
