The Not So Stereotypical​ Gay Black Man

I spent my entire life trying not to be a stereotype

Learned to talk “proper”

Wore certain clothes and hairstyles

So I wouldn’t come across as threating

Got a job in high school

And worked 60 hours a week

Just so that I wouldn’t be called lazy

Graduated high school as a valedictorian

Just so society wouldn’t see me as stupid or uneducated

I spent my entire life trying not to be a sterotype

And still I recieve suspicious looks from the police

(Despite the fact that I’ve never broken the law)

How can I trust them

when they inherently don’t trust me?

It took a while for me to realize

That I was born into a world

Where I’m automatically seen as a crimmal

Automatically seen an immortal creature of evil

That’s why it hurts

when the crimes of people who look like me

get shown on television

Because its all the confirmation society needed

It’s almost enough to make me wonder

If I would have been better off

living up to the steotype instead of fighting it?

What, I did say almost.