Black poetry is important because it showcases raw, intimate thoughts and feelings and also is very meaningful to lots of people. After years of having our voices silenced, I feel like black poetry has taken back our voices and released them back into the world for everyone to read. Here is an anonymous poem was written by a fellow black student.
Being black in America.
Moving to escape poverty and ungiven education,
just to come to a country they call “the dream.”
A place where you are welcome
and education is free, and everyone is
open with welcoming arms.
Only to realize that none of it is like that.
We are stripped from who we are,
we are terrorized and ripped away
for our beliefs and our ways.
We get called ghetto or unprofessional for
simply being who we are.
And we come here?
To a country that we thought was going to
give us everything?
Only to realize it’s worse.
Being black in America is the hope that one
day we won’t have to hide anymore.
To finally live the way, we want
and be treated the same.
I am black in America,
and even through my hardships,
I am proud.
-anonymous
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