The Black Requirement

Is my melanin skin not enough for you? Should I dive into the depths of the Atlantic to make contact with my ancestors and let the waters that filled their lungs fill my lungs until I utter only clippped syllables that remind you of ebonics?

Do I need to sleep in the mass graveyards of my African brothers so that when I wake I would be “woke” to their struggles. You say im not black enough, but you fail to realize that the only requirement to be black is to have skin that only needs to be feathered because I already look tarred.

If I spoke like queen Victoria, was educated like Obama, dressed like Ghandi and believed like Mother Teresa, even then I would still meet the black requirement. There is culture, there are beliefs and there are actions, but there is only one requirement to be black.