Incite Magazine x MSU Diversity Services (Soapbox) - May 2021

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incite x msu diversity services

Eternally Coloured WORDS by RAISA CHOWDHURY

I am eternally coloured Living in a white and light world Utterly defined By the abundance of my melanin I bear this everlasting scar That they call skin I am divided from the rest Neither beautiful nor ugly Simply Indifferent My country thrives on indifference They call it diversity Yet when asked about my culture Their ignorance falls at my feet I have masked my existence in a coat of deception Surely that is my only form of resistance I have put on a facade of pride for westernization As if they had not given my people years of deprivation I am eternally coloured Living in a white and light world For my inferiority is unchangeable But my resilience is Implacable x

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