Double Consciousness

Double consciousness The psychological challenge we face as we look at ourselves Through the eyes of a racist society Image versus identity is the conundrum It's further perplexed by the fact that we can't even agree on our name As a black father, I fight with my five-year-old daughter as she says "We are brown and they are pink" And in her defense, she views the world with a version optic As I view the world through the stained glass of history That questions whether I'm even human