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“9 Billion Shades of Brown (Black History Month Sonnet) Nothing is black and white in this world, everything is a shade of black, even white is just a pale shade of black, or we should say, brown - nothing is black, nothing is white, everything is a shade of brown, everyone is a shade of brown. Ethnicity is a commodity of fear, prejudice is a commodity of power - Mother Africa is the cradle of humanity, Global South is the cradle of civilization. Everything that white people have ever written consists of only 1 percent of the human condition, yet you confuse it as the entire human condition. There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.” — Abhijit Naskar
9 Billion Shades of Brown
(Black History Month Sonnet)
Nothing is black and white in this world,
everything is a shade of black,
even white is just a pale shade of black,
or we should say, brown -
nothing is black, nothing is white,
everything is a shade of brown,
everyone is a shade of brown.
Ethnicity is a commodity of fear,
prejudice is a commodity of power -
Mother Africa is the cradle of humanity,
Global South is the cradle of civilization.
Everything that white people have ever written
consists of only 1 percent of the human condition,
yet you confuse it as the entire human condition.
There is no black history month,
the entire human race calendar is black.