It has been so exhausting to see literary works that repetitively use the colour black to metaphorize a dark becoming, or anything else that radiates with negativity. Although it can be supposable in some circumstances, the stigma revolving the colour black extends so far that people of black pigment are treated as if they are the upbringers of negativity as does the colour black. Unconciously, literature will continuously justify the poetic aspect of the colour black as a way to portray tragedy and death – this needs to end if it means that black people wouldn’t have to face the same tragedy and death the colour black symbolizes. Below entails a poem to address that issue.
What comes to mind when one says “black”?
Darkness, impurity, and this is a fact
That black is a stain and lacks of light
While all things pure are associated with white
White lies are benign and harmless
Black lies are malicious and can only harness
Despair and atrocity
And a manifestation of this is profound immorality
It is complete abomination that such gloom
Equates with the color of the sky that houses the moon
Without the existence of the pitch-black night
The stars we wish upon would never be as bright
Loud, illiterate, these are the written
Words to describe people of black pigment
Not much different from the forlorn words
Used to describe the dark colour discerned
The stigma revolving blacks has gotten worse
To the point where black people are indefinitely cursed
In the secular age where the power is white
And blacks face their guns when they put up a fight
Unarmed and innocent
Black kids are faced with undeserving predicament
From a young age, they’re taught to be more vigilant
And white kids are raised to be more ambivalent
The origin of the funereal words’ link with the colour black
Is still unknown, but it should not extend so far that
People of black pigment endure unlawful treatment
By the justice system that is supposed to abide by
the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment
