Ariel, named for her red hair,
Watches Ariel, a gorgeous Black Woman.
A mermaid expert tells us,
"Ariel is black, because Mermaids come from Africa."
Though, the story comes from Hans Christian Andersen,
A Dane.
Ought the Woman King be black?
I say she must be, as the story means nothing
Without that character being black.
There is no metaphor without the racial imagery.
To scrub it for future generations,
None will know what history came to pass.
So also, you must not swap out races of characters.
Erin is the idealized of my perfect form of Beauty.
Theresa is based off of a woman I adored.
To remove Erin's Irish feature
And Theresa's Guyanese feature
Is to ignore who I crafted them to be.
It would be a disservice
To change who they are.
My Jorgia, both Cocoa and Peach
A symbol for Love's Peace,
You can make her either.
But make new.
Make a new song.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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