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You're beautiful.

For a black woman, said the man I'd secretly crushed on for months. And in

moment, every smile I'd rehearsed, every secret daydream, collapsed into dust.

For a black woman, as if beauty comes with a condition, as if my worth needs a

footnote, as if my blackness is a burden I must apologize for carrying.

What has the color of my skin got to do with beauty?

Tell me.

Is black not beautiful?

Am I not radiant? Not powerful?

Not whole?

Because I don't fit your cracked mirror of perfect, superior race?

Who said?

Who crowned themselves king while choking on delusion?

Black is not lesser. Black is not lack. Black is perfection.

Every shade, divine.

Every hue, eternal.

A universe carved into skin, too deep to erase.

I am proudly black.

Black is beautiful.

There is no color I'd rather be. But you, you with your false charts and

scales, measuring worth in skin tones, you are the lie.

You are the madness.

You are the sickness that breeds hate and called it truth. Stop. Stop with the

delusion. It only breeds madness. There is no superior race, no superior color,

only superior minds.

And a superior mind knows this.

You can have your version of beautiful.

Fine.

But when you carve it out of skin tone and weaponize it to make somebody feel

less, that's not beauty.

That's ignorance dressed up as truth.

Hear this. I don't need your validation to feel the wholeness of being black and

proud. Only lesser humans seek validation.

Because beauty, beauty is not what you say it is. Beauty is not skin deep.

Beauty is what God says it is. And he says, I am fearfully and wonderfully

My blackness is not waiting for your applause, not reaching for your thumbs

My blackness doesn't need a permission slip to shine.

My blackness is older than your hate, older than your counterfeit love.

My blackness is louder than your silence, louder than your shock.

My blackness is divine.

It is royalty.

And I, I am king.

Not because you crowned me, not because I begged for it, but because I was born

it, because my bloodline sings it, because history carved it in stone long

before your history books tried to erase my name.

Do you not see it? The drumbeat rhyming my heartbeat, a perfect anthem for

royalty, the universe bending light itself to paint me black. So tell me

What has the color of my skin got to do with beauty?

Because when I walk, the ground remembers my ancestors.

When I speak, my voice carries generations.

When I smile, I defy centuries of chains and still stand tall.

Black is beautiful.

Black is survival.

Black is brilliance. Black is power. Black is freedom. Black is me. And I, I

king.