Brown Race Mix

A Saturday at Plaza las Americas

Sited on a bench

Watching people pass by

Many colors, hairs and weights

White people with curly hair

Brown people with straight hair

White girls with a huge derriere

Black girls without one at all

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Many brown people

Every shade on the scale

Trigueños, morenos, prietos

Many names, with a lot of racism

Fair acceptance

And little understanding

I thought about my friend, Yenitza

A black chick

A perfect picture of Tembandumba de la Quimbamba

Another friend, Maria

The whitest girl I had ever seen

She has Yenitza’s body

They had a lot everywhere

Even their skin tone

One has too much, the other not at all

Me, a light brown skin

Straight brown hair

With an African tail…

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