Blame It On Us

 The title of my poem is Blame It On Us. It is about how white people don't take responsibility of the things that they've done. I don't really have any inspiration for this poem. Also, the poem is somewhat like a dialogue. My theme would have to be ignorance and irresponsibility. 

Blame It On Us


400+ years of slavery

You weren’t even a slave, don’t blame it on us

Little to no representation in movies, magazines, and unrealistic beauty standards

You don’t even wanna be famous. Why does that matter, you can’t blame it on us

Stereotypes set for black people which caused us to rip away our culture and who we are so we wouldn’t fit into it

Okay, we have nothing to do with that, you shouldn’t blame it on us

What about the divide you caused between skin complexions, and whoever is the lightest wins and like usual the darkest loses. Do you even understand the generational trauma that we go through?

No, so there should be no reason for you to blame it on us

Alright fine

I won’t blame y’all for that 

But I will blame y’all for not seeing your own ignorance

I will blame y’all for not seeing how there are fast food restaurants at every corner in poor black communities 

I will blame y’all for not understanding why we are hesitant when it comes to taking shots, vaccines, or anything that the government supplies

I will blame you for believing white privilege doesn’t exist

I will blame you for not trying to understand why we are the way we are

 I will blame you for not respecting us and seeing us as less than you because of our skin

And I will forever blame you for everything that has happened before me and after me


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