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The Blackness of My Blackness
The blackness of my blackness,
Implies some sort of depth,
A stone cold seriousness
That I had never really felt.
But lately I’ve been stuck inside my head,
With countless words to speak,
More than I have ever read,
But I refuse to make a peep.
The blackness of my blackness,
Is the silence that I live,
And every time I write about this
I feel like something’s gonna give.
I feel that Brielle's poem and Louis Armstrong's song are completely the opposite. I feel that in a way they both connect in the way that they mention their type of blackness and how they are trying to imply their feelings throughout their media. At the same time, Brielle's poem is about the seriousness and silence that she experiences, while Louis Armstrong's song When You're Smiling implies to be happy and this whole notion of being positive about it.
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