A few annoyances as experienced by minority women

Say my ancestors were discovered.

Make me memorize it, 

Put it on a test. 

Tell me being mixed is sexy, you forget

it was first forced breeding. 

Teach me high art is naked white women, 

Notice I don’t look like them?

Persist I am lucky to be so tan. 

Call it a glow up. You’re selling a people. 

Is this rebranding?

Say my language is alluring. 

Learn a few words to use at a bar.

Progressive?

Habibi, mami, ebony princess. I find it racist, 

you call it misreading. 

Assume I’m after money, or status, or a green card.

You ask where I was born. Where I went to school.

Probe for an answer. 

Didn’t expect me to one up you? Now I’m disappointing? 

Treat me like an accessory,

Although this is my life; I’m not pretending.

Paraphrase a culture, you’re so good at it.

Wrap me in sticky rice, 

because you’ve made me your happy ending. 

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