How To Make Your Daughters Poem Analysis

The author starts the poem with the line, “Remind them that Jesus is Black” (line 5). To me this line connects to the title of the poem “How to Make Your Daughters Culturally and Racially Content During Christmastime. The point of the poem if to display the difficulties black families go through when seeing white public figures. The poem seems to be a set of instructions and the first line, stating how Jesus is Black is very clear to readers. The second line of the poem states, “Despite the pictures Granny has hung on the wall” (line 5-10). This line explains the fact that despite trying to fight the outside sources erasing blackness, that black people have to fight the system inside their own homes. This portion of the poem is what connected me to the poem on a personal level. This line alludes to the issue of anti-blackness that the black community deals with. The tone of the poem comes off as resigned from my point of view. Because the author makes references …show more content…
The author states, “Jesus was a brother. A bruh, not a bro.” (Line 30-35). I love this line, alludes to the slang that people use on a daily basis. It is interesting the how the wording the author uses in the poem. The author uses “bruh” and “bro” in the poem. These two terms contrast each other because traditionally the term “bruh” is used by black people, while “bro” is used by white people. These two words are similar in the fact that they essentially mean the same thing, but the connection the words have are very different. For example, the fact that “bro” is in the dictionary but “bro is not. Another line worth mentioning in the poem is, “Mary with a press and curl, Joseph with a fade.”(Line 55). This poem mentions two popular hairstyles for black people either past or present. A “press and curl” is not a hairstyle used as much as it used to be. Although a fade is a popular hairstyle that black men still get