Africa Is In Style!

Repost: Nov 7, 2007

 

People may look at my family and call us what they want....
They see that we range in the color of our skins -
They are shocked to find out that I am of mixed blood

But don't get it twisted my brethren, my sistren
My African blood runs strong!

I hail from the Mother continent
That's right, CONTINENT for those of you who don't know...

Africa is more than cool
Africa is more than hip

I wear these colors not to prove to you how "down" I am
Not to prove to you how "black" I am
Not to prove to you that I am indeed your sista

I wear these colors because I AM AFRICA
and Africa is in style

In its glory and splendor
We let strangers rape her
then we wear her jewels upon our chest, dripping the blood of our kin on our hands, chew on their flesh with our teeth...

Africa is in style!

And yet her people does not understand her wealth
nor their origins

We have been plucked from our homes and now we run amongst the plunderers

Africa is in style and I uplift her
not to prove anything
Never to you
neither to Babylon

I do it because I AM AFRICA.
and Africa is in Style!