I think the theme of “identity” is very relevant to nowadays because people are still carrying the issues of what an African American stereotypes are and the judging them in numerous ways in which they think they fall in this or that category of black women stereotype.
Identity is shown in this spoken word poem by the judging of the African American women by their hair, body language, the way they talk, and many more. This thing is people don’t know them at all but just looking at one of the black women they …show more content…
Also in the poem the author talks about black race and their history of black women and the people that suffered through this crucial racism towards African American .the author talks about effects of slavery such as civil rights activists the black women who fought for AA(African American) rights like segregation education and changing the law to bring equality to the African American people of their nation. for example referring to this issue were the underground railway what is stated in the poetry saying how the black women like Ella baker , Diane Nash , Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou hammer, Daisy bates And Arnold Hedgeman and Dorothy Height who fought for their rights and how these so-called Average black girls that made 19 trips through the underground