Read Poem: PRETTY BLACK GIRL, by J. Lathen

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A lil Country girl was she
Her skin was smooth and chocolatey

She would walked to preschool with her Daddy right by her side
Ummm she remembers the smell of the early morning breeze

Oh my that was a good memory

Pretty black Girl didn’t have a care in the world
In Girl Scouts she was the only lil black girl

Pretty black didn’t give it much thought like most would
She was happy she got to go to an upper-class neighborhood

She was called the N word at school
By a white girl
The word rolled off her tongue so effortlessly but it shattered Pretty black’s world

Although Pretty black didn’t know what the word meant at such a young age
It seem to be powerful because the white girl said it with such rage

What a dreadful memory

Umph! Pretty black really didn’t pay it no mine
Because…

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