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When a Black Girl Embraces Dr. Clint Smith Honoring Black Princesses in Educational Spaces I take great joy in watching Black girls embrace Clint Smith For the first time After a brief introduction of his academic accolades And eyebrows raise around the room on His connections with Harvard Words begin to spill out of His mouth and There is always one Black girl Whose eyes begin to sparkle Her admiration Doesn’t come from his dashingly good looks It’s his words that speaks to her heart That message stirs up Her soul Brings about The ancestors’ blood that runs Through her veins The Motherland gene senses that His performance is for her watchful eyes For her listening ears That will soon be in sync With her future son’s presence Words that speak of her child that Will carry the curse of being a Black man in this world Filled with white faces that will judge his Every action with fear and lack Of understanding Those Black momma dreams And fears Those worries that her child Will feed the greedy larva that Explore six feet under And be the next name Chiseled on a headstone And repeated by millions With the hashtag in front to show Her child is another link In the enslavement chain of Police Brutality Those “soon-to-be” Black mama’s eyes They are already encased in her face And they appear while Clint Speaks his truth on screen Her eyes quickly blink In fear that she might miss An item that is essential for Black folks survival And those ebony eyes push back The emotional tears There is A panicked moment where she lets her Eyes jet to each Black boy sitting Close to her in class With wonder and concern How can anyone protect them? Will the pain of another Black life lost Be too much to bear? Once Dr. Smith finishes This girl will always look toward me With a face filled with appreciation And confusion The latest girl to embrace His spell shares “That man just gave me chills” As she walks out of the room Second-guessing if The chills were ones of gratefulness Or of fear Because Clint preaches The present and the prophecy Neither one is she prepared to embrace But she knows she has already taken the message Into her soul
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