“When a white girl says, ‘Cash me ousside, how bout dat?’ She’s dropping hard consonants in order to sound harder, to sound tougher. She’s creating a caricatures of Black identity, built on negative stereotypes.”
Congratulations to Jahman Hill for topping 100,000 views on this absolutely incredible poem! Watch more from Rustbelt 2017 here.
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