TO BE MIXED

TO BE MIXED

You're not a minority!

Sure your hair has kink,

Your skin is brown,

Your nose is broad-ish.

But you're not a minority!

See your eyes are light,

Your speech is nice,

Your mom is white!

So you're not a minority!

Do you know our pain?

Have you felt the hate

As the world discriminates?

Still not a minority!

And no matter how you're seen,

Or if your dad wasn't free,

You'll never be…

A minority.

Then what am I?

What are you?

I don't recognize your kind,

And I need to put you in a box

With a genus and a species.

What are you?

You're an exotic-looking sort,

From the jungles of Africa?

Eh! you're far too pretty.

What are you?

A human from Loudoun County?

Oh! So where in the Middle East?

Ha! You thought I was listening.

What are you?