Won’t Be Black Today, Thanks

I’m tired of being Black, y’all — for realz!

Lol! A bunch of fools read the lead-in and cancelled my ass. As if they were even on my radar. But, seriously, it’s bad enough I have to speak English and deal with a colonized mind every day of my life, but do I really have to walk around with a label that got stuck on me and people of my general ass phenotype however many centuries ago, by a bunch of people who thought my complexion was offensive?

How is the term Black any different than the term n*99er? Really? They both were meant to degrade people who were not fair skinned. If Europeans had been trying to flatter Africans, they would have called us golden, bronze, earthen, rich, deep, even brown. Black doesn’t describe a single human skin tone on the planet. Langston Hughes wrote about it too, so don’t get mad at me. I dare you to try and cancel Langston! But he pointed out the obvious, that in European culture, black is bad and white is good...period.

Sure, people reclaim, shit and flip it and all that. Whatever. I’m tired of making due with what other people have bothered to toss my way. That’s just a fancy way of saying “Uncle” and acting like you were really just trying to get your mother’s brothers attention. Lies! You cried uncle ‘cause you was licked. You just done forgot you was licked.

Yes, y’all in the game of domestication of Africans in America, Africans, for the most part are not the winners. Get butt-hurt all you want, but if you are walking around doing your best to fit in to the sterile culture White America has modeled for you, your ass has been kicked. That includes White people, many of whom—Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Turkish, Armenian, etcetera —weren’t White when they got to the U.S.

So, no, I’m not feeling the Black thing today. I wanna find a new name for what I am that isn’t something Europe turned its nose up to. I wanna name myself in a way that celebrates the glory that is me. I guess that’s why I’m Notorious Pink! Lol!