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Identity

May 26, 2017
By QueenLeslie BRONZE, Hayward, California
QueenLeslie BRONZE, Hayward, California
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           I’m dancing next to you and you don’t even notice, maybe because my eyes aren’t blue like yours. My skin is darker than yours, my hair is almost as blonde as yours but the thing is that my roots are dark like tree bark. 


Other people don’t see me the way you do, if they don’t know me and they were to see me they would think I have money because of my fair skin and with that money I could buy myself everything in the world. The truth is that because of my light skin I do not have the same possibilities of those who are of Caucasian descent.


The author's comments:

I was inspired because of all of the racism that was going on and I felt the need talk about it to tell my self it's okay to be different.


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