Inspired by the American Anthropological Association’s exhibit called 'RACE: Are We So Different?”, Irma McClaurin - a poet-anthropologist of the African diaspora - responds to anti-Black racism and the question of race. Link to the full poem:
We will be reduced to bones, shriveled skin, and,to determine who we really were.Will it show whether you lived a life of acceptance and inclusiveness;Will it tell a story of someone so enragedin a Charleston church, and after praying alongside them?slavery and the institutionalized rapewe definitely reproduced.She was his slave, his property,though she persuaded himNo more denials or prettifying of history.an urban legend, like the boogie man.
and know that somewhere deep in his gene pooland marvel at the phenotypic heterogeneity.of white supremacy, white privilege, enslavement, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia,Blackness is America’s rainbow.
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