Ignorance Poem by Nika McGuin

I love black girls, he says
I just nod, okay
their bodies are amazing, he says and
hey, what dances can you do?
I just stare blankly at him
he doesn't get it
when he says he 'loves' black girls
what he speaks of are the girls he has seen
on rap videos, dancing suggestively to the beat
he's never dated a black girl
he knows zero, about us
nada, he doesn't know we aren't all
built like video vixens
and that our talents, amount to more
than shaking our posteriors
he doesn't know how it feels
to be a real black girl in america
no, he doesn't love us
he loves strippers

~Nika