Questioning ...blackness?

[Sekhem]

questioning....blackness?

"what are you?"
skin color?
race?
the 1/8th (Cherokee) on my face?
but
the question is not mine
too long ago for me this riddle
solved inside
all that makes me
abide in kind just fine
regardless of what ever
is goin on inside me or someones elses mind
to you my Black-ness....folk and kin
is this question
for real...walk me around the block on this again....
explore the space
that defined "race"
cause whether any have confusion or hate over
what you see in our various "dispora" faces
or in me
I am as they are still very much apart of our pedigree
check past politics
check again into family mirrors
won't take too long to see we
we're connected from the blood lines that flow
on the interior
so my cousins, my kin
....I know sometimes we trip
yet and still the question is again flipped
Brothers and Sisters...
how is community defined again...?
how do you define blackness...
when all our family,
heritage,
blood lines,
are not ....let in?

holla

Sekhem
4-28-09

[Ol' Skool]

Very thought-provoking piece Sekhem, I often come across that question in my heart and mind too. It kills me when black people try to use my education against me, or my skin tone against me, as if those things reduce my being black...when they can't even tell anything about being black - only about being ghetto, and those terms to me are not synonymous.

Write on sista!

[Park Heights]

LOL Ol' Skool.. where the hell you be finding these clips??? LOL

[Park Heights]

now... on to business.. I'm feeling this poem... the question posed at the end is valid and needs to be seriously discussed by our scholars...

[Sekhem]

May 5, 2009 7:41:26 GMT -5 Ol' Skool said:

Very thought-provoking piece Sekhem, I often come across that question in my heart and mind too. It kills me when black people try to use my education against me, or my skin tone against me, as if those things reduce my being black...when they can't even tell anything about being black - only about being ghetto, and those terms to me are not synonymous.

Write on sista!

That's it! You hit the nail on the head for me...thank you! It is the reducing that defines what black is in too many cases
- it hurts to see many of us really feel that way about ourselves...

and black equalling "ghetto"
is similiar to black equalling "urban"....
....so all the folk raised country _{(and proud of it)} don't exist?!
The Black Middle Class don't exit?!
If educated black is still such an oxymoron in our minds how are we ever to "overcome" ourselves?!
...just frustrating!
Thanks for checking this and offering your insight!
Sekhem

[Sekhem]

May 8, 2009 11:05:50 GMT -5 Park Heights said:

now... on to business.. I'm feeling this poem... the question posed at the end is valid and needs to be seriously discussed by our scholars...

Queen Latifah's song keeps coming up lately
"Unity" and how it's kind of hard to spell community with
out it....
thanks for checking this!
Sekhem