Hey You!

Hey you zebra!
With the striped skin
Blackness is your only sin!

“What you mean?” I had to say
Don’t you know I was born this way?

Hey you zebra!
With the striped skin
You light, so bright, you damn near white!

“What you mean?” I had to say
Don’t you know I just be this way?

I’m not your “zebra” or your “half-breed”
Your ignorance isn’t what I need.
Look beyond your bigotry
And see a WOMAN is all I be.