Black Girl Blk Analysis

The ideology in the poem, blk/rhetoric, is calling black people to understand that we are more than the stereotypes. It’s not that we have to be more, but we have to do more for ourselves. The verses: “who’s gonna make all that beautiful blk/rhetoric mean something.” Reading that verse, I felt that it’s trying to promote awareness to black people, individually and just as a whole, that everyday we need for our blackness to mean something.“ Who is gonna give our young blk/ people new heroes”, after this verse it begins stereotypes of black people: pimps, catch phrases, drug dealers, new dances. It’s easy for America to label our negatives and never see past it. We are more than these things. That’s why we have created things like, “ Black Girl