By Leon Ford. (c)2020

 How black are you when you bleach your skin?
Taking away your melanin,
Giving your skin an unhealthy thin.
How black are you when you open your mouth
With your inappropriate words to your brother going south
How black are you when you Black brother cannot even your race trace
Just how black are you when education you choose not to embrace.
Is your blackness just “hype” because of black life Matters?
Are you really feeling the pain and hearing the rappers?
Are the drums beating for you, through you, with you about you?
Or are you fake?
Looking for what you can scrape
While others protest their pain you pull in your ill-gotten gain.
When you disrespect your woman and call her insane.
Just how black are you?
When you sit in your couch and ridicule and jeer
With your hands clutching a tin of beer
As “blacks” walk down that road of fear
Just how black are you? Yes, you!