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My Melanin is not for sale!

Real queens recognize real queens!

By Soul SistahPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
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She wants to walk like me, talk like me but never takes the time to see that black women are unique.

We're the trendsetters who the culture vultures aspire to be buying lips and butt injections just so she can be an off brand version of me.

Talking like a ghetto stereotype because the media never shows black women in a positive light. Calling themselves trans-racial like it's a real thing but fail to see the disrespect or pain that black women go through and face everyday. Everybody wants to be black but without the struggles or adversity we face.

I remember a time where they'd make fun of our hair and features now they're paying big money just to be us. Still in silent downcast eyes they refuse to see us as they walk so carefree like they're above us, they love our culture but don't love us .

Tell us to get over 400 years of captivity and that racism isn't a thing, meanwhile over a million black women go missing in the U.S. and nobody says a thing. You wonder why I get upset when we're the butt of society's joke because I grow tired of being nitpicked and belittled all at the expense of someone who lacks humility and common sense.

Sarah says "we're jealous because she looks better in our skin than us", but trust we are the originators, otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to be like us. You may have been injected, but my melanin has been popping since birth, yeah you ripped off of our culture but us sisters, no us queens we did it first.

My melanin is not for sale, so take our hair, skin and features off of your shelves and understand this no matter what surgeries you undergo you will never be a sista because we real black women, us real sista's know a true queen when we see her.

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