Author: C.K. McGhee

In lightening my skin, will that help me to fit in? I can hardly recognize myself, act as if I’m ashamed of my brown self. Colors more beautiful than the rainbow. From light to dark skin black, more concerned with what “they” say tho’. Life starts and ends with us. Why do we let “them”…

Shattered like glass, heart broken into pieces. Can someone help me out, need to find a way to beat this. Filled with pain and self-doubt, mouth open…no sound comes out! If someone bumps into MERCY let her know to shout me out! They say you can’t choose your family but did your family choose you?…

Who can I run to when I come home to my apartment but can’t get in, my entry stopped once again, cuz of the color of my skin? A white woman standing at the front door is blocking my way cuz’ she ain’t seen me before. She wants the truth asking me for proof that…

Someone like me…with honey chocolate skin, might leave my home and not come back again. Police don’t take time to assess the problem, they pull out their guns….start shooting, that’s how they solve em’. Civilians with mental illness, mishandled and misunderstood, a mechanic takes more time with a car, as he looks under the hood….

They said he sailed the ocean blue. For those of us WOKE, we know it’s not true! How can you discover a land already occupied, this won’t be the last time “they” lied. In North and South Dakota, Natives there are referred to as Sioux….do you have any idea of how offensive this term is…

I, “pledged Allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all”….. right? But what did the flag pledge to me? Did it pledge a first class ticket on a fancy cruise liner….sailing the ocean blue,…