Standardized Test - Malachi Byrd
Merriam-Webster defines intelligence as the ability to learn
understand or deal with newer trying situations.
the American school system, and consequently the american public define
intelligence as
2400 SAT 36 ACT
4.0 GPA a repertoire of irregular, unnecessary synonyms.
the ability to preach without true practice,
There was a time where I wanted to conform:
but as a black boy I was told I was inadequate,
as a good test taker I was told I was inadequate,
told I was just a product of added pressure from multiplying economic obstacles,
and racial divides have subtracted my motivation,
but still couldn't excel in a mathematician profession because of my pigment.
Citizen issued oppression always hit the hardest.
Stephanie grace: esteemed Ivy League graduate says blacks
are genetically inferior,
Less intelligent than whites.
Well miss grace: let my three millennium's a African blood
and my three decades american force fed education intertwined into ingredients
for your food for thought.
I am sure that your conclusions are primarily reflected of stats
that blacks only comprise thirty percent Ivy League school attendees.
But I don't need to be valedictorian to tell you that we don’t need
Princeton's approval to tell you that we've already given birth to our on princes.
If Dartmouth perceives the poetic expressive darts dispute from our mouths
As ignorance it doesn't mean that we arent powerful.
I understand your struggle Miss Grace.
You're upset that you let U Penn pin you down
under the weight of that common application that transforms you
from sweetheart to statistic
but even you, being a white woman in me being a black boy;
I hate your subconscious screaming.
Screw Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale.
You just want to be brown.
You does just want to be brown to be the brown soil
that was casted off as dirt,
but then sprouted the most beautiful wall flowers.
To be the brown tree that was casted off as frail,
But has the strongest of roots.
Ill tell you where you weakened your foundation:
You conformed
a loss your uniqueness.
Aced your SAT and sat in complacency.
You let' your score on the ACT
act as you all the identifier.
If your GPA was your only GPS for your path to success
you might have money,
and you might be well-known,
but it does not make you a strong woman.
Taking an African American Studies course does not mean you understand my
race.
If we were to let our complexion only be a reflection of the darkness
Of a bubble in a scantron,
we would just be confining ourselves to bars on an american graph.
And Im pretty sure you already think there will be confined to bars on
america's behalf,
So miss grace,
this is not a hate letter.
This is not lyrical ammunition promising threats
because you probably expect that.
So this is an aggressive, yet peaceful,
yet not peaceful protest against any teacher looked at me like I was a
shooting star in the dark hole of my ethnicity,
Because I don’t enunciate my words like they do.
This is a war cry against any outside enemy
who questions while we wear fatigues in the oppressive heat.
And why we casually cop combat boots because we
a warrior's.
Troy Dave’s a system failure recorders.
Jordan Davis Jena 6 newscasts reporters.
Militants turn minion to a school system
society this trying to strip us of a title that we truly deserve.
Merriam-webster defines intelligence as the ability to learn,
Understand, orvdeal with new or trying situations,
and that is all my people have done.
So miss Grace,
I know that society has told you that you are mentally intelligent
And therefore you have the right to be in black genetically inferior.
But on the contrary,
You assumptions only want to prove that you are mentally
inferior,
And that we are genetically and simply
intelligence
