‘The Average Black Girl – ‘Powerful Poetry / Spoken Word by Ernestine Johnson

Ernestine Johnson BLEW people’s minds on the Arsenio Hall TV show & WENT VIRAL.  Powerful spoken word: “You speak so well … for a black girl.”  — “See, the average black girl that I know, the average black girl that I know were Egyptian queens like Hatshepsut and Nitocris who were ruling dynasties and whole armies of men, excuse me while I set fire to this poem on my pen because I am tired. Tired of the stereotypes black girls have fallen into because of American mentality. Oh, but not half as tired as Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Septima Poinsette-Clark. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, Miss Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, and Dorothy Height are far more tired than I am.” — Ernestine Johnson.