Tag Archives: Diversity

U.S.

Color

Where is your color

Am I your friend

Your friend of color

Do I satisfy a need

Why must I be your person

Will you always run to me

Count them on your hand

One, two , three

How many white

How many like you

Where is your diversity

Color stays within

Color is discriminated

Color is not your icon

Color is not your hero

Where is your diversity

I am sick

I am tired

I am brown

A color different from you

I am a color

I am not your color

-Bina Rachael Walker

This poem generated from someone generalizing the United States and stating that there was diversity everywhere. This person also said that they lived in the same area as I did and they could list all of their ‘diverse’ friends. This person did not understand that saying that a list could be provided defeated the purpose of actual diversity. I am a woman of color and I do not want to be put on a list. I am human being. Not an object.