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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

White History Month

I’m sick of white people

Who look at us and scoff,

And smirk with contempt

Holding their heads aloft


As if those with black skin

And those of a different race

Are not worthy of existing

Or of being in “their” space.


I’m sick of their mockery

Of our struggles and pain

As they jeer “It’s not real,

You just want to complain.”


I’m sick of them saying,

“You don’t need black history month.

You just want to be victims,

What about a white history month?”


My sister cried

Because she was stressed

By jealous, ignorant white people

Whose souls were an evil mess.


They paid her back with rudeness

When she gave them kindness.

She offered them kind words

And they responded with silence.


And even after all

The racist things they do,

They will still say, “We’re not racist,

We have black friends, like you.”


Even after all

The racist things they say,

They will still say, “We are Christians,

In Jesus name we pray!”


I’m sick of this racist nonsense.

It is sick and it is evil.

Forget your white history month,

You are full of the devil!

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