My Piece on her Piece called "10 Learned Behaviors of a Black Girl"

I have decided this week my theme is black girls. This piece is by Andie Berry, a college student at the time at least. This video was published March 22, 2014 by the WashUSlam page on Youtube. She performed this poem in the first round of WU-Slam's 14th annual poetry slam for college unions. This particular one was in Boulder, Colorado. I feel for this poem a lot because..well...I'm a black girl and I write just like she does so I can understand what she's saying. She talks about how black girls need to learn to take articulate as a compliment because people don't believe we can be. I know growing up I always got the "you talk white" line because people expected me to not be able to speak only because I was black. Also, something I can definitely relate to that makes me so angry is the idea of people always saying "smile you look so angry". She says that even if she stitched a permanent smile on her face people would still ask if she was angry or what's wrong all the time which I can relate to because even when I smile people find something wrong to ask about. Her tenth thing is that girls should apologize when writing poems abut race which I find interesting because I know when I write race poems I always feel bad about them or like I need to apologize for being real when in actuality I don't. I love this poem because I can relate to it a lot.