Poem: Where Do I Stand?

10/6/2020

Jaden Graham '21

I never felt right calling myself black

because looking at the facts, I'm much more than that

White, Cherokee, African-American

& probably more so where do I stand?

I'm black enough to get looks in public, but I've been told I act white

So if I'm acting white, I can act black right?

Wrong.

You can't act a color,

But I can act like my sisters and brothers,

If I'm around them long enough

But most of my friends are white and that's how I've been brought up.

It's tough

I have mixed feelings

Mixed personalities

I'm mixed,

But you see,

I'm one

One human being

One child of God

So where do I stand?

Well I stand with my people:

My black community,

My white community,

because we are equal

But right now, my black community has it hard,

You've seen

It's a dark time, but I still dream

Dream of hope

Dream of the possibility

that my black community will have equal opportunity

So again, I stand with my people and I fight to be equal

But I call on my white community to help end this evil.

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