Why You Talk So White? by Maya The Poet
fav lines:
“i’m speaking a white language.
best believe there wasnt a single Black person at the meeting when the british made up english,
or any of the so called “romance languages.”
and if there were they were probably serving sandwiches because we are talking about the same people that call(ed) us savages.
so every time, every time we speak English, we talk white.”
I’m going to replay this every time someone gives me shit for not referencing the accepted jargon for all blackness. This is powerful stuff.
WHOA. All of this.
(via nanettehb)
