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"I remember the first time I was called nigger..."
RWM
"Must I Justify My Blackness!" as expressed by poet, author RoBin White- Morton speaks to the voice of consciousness for all people in todays society. She shares the seriousness of what it is to be an Afro-American amidst all the pronounced "isms" in the 21st Century from racism, to classism, sexism, and more.
"Blackness!", "What Do You Tell Black Boys", "From The Grave!", "Incarcerated", and "Dare To Stand For Rightness", are a few pieces enclosed within the body of this thirty-two piece, 100-page book of poetry and comments. Its sole purpose is to free the reader from sedentary racism and identify the reality by bringing about insight to those who function quietly in the closet of their oppression. Morton also uses dialect, stories, and her religious coping tools in her writing to dispel the myth that there is solidarity amongst the race.
From Rodney King, O. J. Simpson, Martin L. King, Jr., Malcolm X, from being the Negro, this Nigger, that Nigger, the Nigger and more. It is evident in spite of the struggle you will always be a Nigger.
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