Black style
Is not a wannabe grasping for attention
It's more than cornrows and black hair extensions
Black style
Is respect for 46 million people's lost history
Black style
Is just a white mans lie
Just so he can sell overpriced kicks
Black style
Is believing in your self
Understand what it means *"by any means necessary."
Black style
Is not an article on page 31 of Vogue magazine
Or a trendy fashion
Black style
Is taking care of family
Breaking all the stereotype lies
Black style
It is not the way you walk or talk
Or protecting your street CRED
Black style
Is more like Maya Angelou composing a poem
Black style
Is Ali in a fight we will never understand
Black style
Is Marven Gay sing words of soul field with peace
Wishing he was here today
Black style
Is Louse Gates saying call me Skip
Have to much respect
Dr. Gates is all I can say
Thinking you have Black Style
The first time you called a wigger and smacked upside the head
You'll claim that Blackness was never your style
©Copyright 2016 Thomas Dooley
*quote from Malcolm X
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Author:
Thomas J. Dooley (
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- Comment from author about the poem: There is a song from Prince album EMANCIPATION it contained 3 CDs it was his way to stick it to Warner Brothers to give him all his publishing rights to his music. On this album, there is a song called STYLE; this poem BLACK STYLE is inspired by that song. If you get the chance, give it a listen. Just like Prince's song, this is braking the fake from those who are trying to be something they are not.
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Comments1
It is what it is... not exclusively good or bad.... same as any kind of style... not all styles of anything are exclusively good or bad.... eye of the beholder etc.
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