BLACK STYLE

Black style
Is not a wannabe grasping for attention
It's more than cornrows and black hair extensions

Black style
Is respect for 46 million people's lost history

Black style
Is just a white mans lie
Just so he can sell overpriced kicks

Black style
Is believing in your self
Understand what it means *"by any means necessary."

Black style
Is not an article on page 31 of Vogue magazine
Or a trendy fashion

Black style
Is taking care of family
Breaking all the stereotype lies

Black style
It is not the way you walk or talk
Or protecting your street CRED

Black style
Is more like Maya Angelou composing a poem

Black style
Is Ali in a fight we will never understand

Black style
Is Marven Gay sing words of soul field with peace
Wishing he was here today

Black style
Is Louse Gates saying call me Skip
Have to much respect
Dr. Gates is all I can say

Thinking you have Black Style
The first time you called a wigger and smacked upside the head
You'll claim that Blackness was never your style

©Copyright 2016 Thomas Dooley


*quote from Malcolm X