Who taught you to hate yourself?
With your big lips, round hips, and big nose
Don’t you know they get clip clipped and snip snipped to have all of those
They desperately seek the sun
While away from it you run
Hating your dark skin as if you want to be one…Of them
On the other hand, they seek melanin and collagen injections
To move closer in your direction
Because your complexion is in
But you want out
What is all that about?

You make fun of Michael Jackson
Who had a genetic variation
Vitiligo’s what it’s called
So you should be appalled
You should leave him alone
And point that finger at the self known as your own
You watch Jersey Shore and adore them the more they GT and L
Neglecting the fact that the T is natural to your beauty

Who taught you to hate yourself?
Was it those magazines that only show the girls with skin tones in-between
And never seem to come onto your end of the spectrum?
Was it that TV screen which the likes of you are very rarely seen?
Was it the mother who OD’ed on the Revlon
Who made you sell your soul to Lady Avon?
You may call it make-up, but I call it make believe
So you can’t make me believe you look in the mirror and see what you wished to achieve
Unless that achievement was meant to represent the pent up self hate
Madame CJ should be turning in her grave
Because her dream was for you to enhance, not exchange

As a people we’ve been molested by investments
Whored out by the white collared suit with clout
Performing fellatio on his pockets, money spending
Then covering our bodies with his happy ending
And if you find that disgusting then let’s discuss it
Let’s extinguish the flames of hate
Before it’s too late to find ourselves on the shelves
Let’s shelve the relaxer, burning and killing your thoughts like a cancer
The answer is clear but do not fear when the Summer draws near
Don’t hide from the light in attempts to lighten
Enlighten you mind and redefine your definition of attraction
Be attractive in your own right, whether you be light, or black as night
And fight, the preconceived notion that “White is right”
Because white is white, black is black, and Mac is WHACK!

So that hatred for yourself, who taught you that?