Rules for Being Black in America
Be polite
smile when they see you
slouch a little, confidence frightens them.
Don´t have objects in your pockets, like rectangles or triangles.
No sudden movements, keep your eyes low and tame down.
Don't reach for your ID.
Why did you run?
Do have something to hide?
Keep that hip hop music low, you might get shot for it
and be seen but not heard.
To them you're most likely going to fit the description.
Your hair is loud but they want you to keep it silent.
Let them touch it when they ask.
Do not cry.
Do not make mistakes.
Wear visible clothing
Let the white guy have the stronger hand shake.
Don't tell your white friends that you got into Harvard.
Stay away from Ancestry.com, You won´t find what you’re looking for!
Stay to the right so they don't have to move.
Do not have sex. There´s enough of you!.
Don´t use the peace sign as way of saying ¨goodbye¨ it looks too much like a gang sign, You are a gang sign!.
Don't be a single mother, don´t be a baby daddy, your people already think your life´s over anyway.
Do not go to college. do not do anything that will be beneficial for you and your race.
That´s reverse racism.
Do you hear me boy!
Speak when you pass me in the street.
Do not collect money or walk around walmart with a walmart gun.
Don't walk around in white neighborhoods or wear hoodies.
Why are you shooting yourself?
Why do you guys keep shooting yourself when you are handcuffed with your chest on the ground?
Do not ask questions in class do not speak during discussions.
You´ll just be another negro without answers.
Lightskins be comfortable black.
Wait, I have always been black!
I guess I never knew my color has so much meaning
As I put my hands up in every way blocking you from my body
Praying you don´t shoot..you probably wouldn´t if I had a thinner nose and lighter skin
Don´t read for fun.
Let your white friend say ¨Nigga¨, then pretend it does not bother you.
Don´t have kinky hair or puffs.
Don´t be a male thats 206 pounds and 6,4 and dark skin.
Did you know they have weapons?
Did you know black bodies are weapons?