:D Now that things have been figured out,

It's interesting to me. Some of my friends who are African-American end up showing me spoken word as a form of poetry. To be honest, I never heard it before they showed it to me and I went to predominately Black schools, and being Black myself, I still never heard spoken word. One that I was shown is called Bi-racial Hair

c: Here's the link to it if you're interested in seeing it for yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTnxJdxhU7o

I think spoken word is only different because of the way a person or author presents it. Much like the poetry we have read in class or the poems that we write, we can relate to it in some way. Perhaps it is the passion of the poem that is relatable. Perhaps it is the passion of forgotten history that is relatable. When I first heard this, I was able to relate with not only the texture of hair, the breaking of the comb, and being judged whether I was Black or if I was White based on skintone, but in the way the girl's poem spoke with pride in her heritage and who she truly was.