If Yara Shahidi Was President: A Poem From a Young Black Woman
If Yara Shahidi was president,
stores would have to stop locking up
Black hair care products.
No more embarrassingly asking someone to open it,
someone overworked and underpaid,
since President Yara outlawed the locks,
and dramatically raised the minimum wage.
If Yara Shahidi was president,
there’d be no more letter grades.
Since letters always seem to discrimin…
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