![]() Stealing While WhiteA Poem by Anonymous
I'm trying to hide from the camera's eye,
My heart beats - one, two - Do I steal? do I buy? Casually taking a sip of fresh water I shove in my bag freshly
stolen eyeliner, self-stolen dignity worth one dollar. But my white color
and a pretty face are my alibi - I was born to be safe I look into white people's faces Stolen labor and freedom - worth
our successes. I steal
an eyeliner and another impoverished Black woman loses a dollar. "Black Lives do Matter," - I try to keep my inner voice down, I just bought an $81 worth suite so I can work for an anti-police brutality organization, run by a white man
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Added on April 8, 2016 Last Updated on November 29, 2016 Author
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