Muna Abdulahi - "Pronounce Us Correctly"

hi my name is Munna Abdullahi I'm 5
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years old I'm in kindergarten the did
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the other kids that the other kids they
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call me they call me a terrorist I don't
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know what that means but my mommy maha
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she calls me smarts the other day we
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went to Walmart to buy food and then a
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guy came by no not in my sky that did
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this one this one was me he he came up
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to us and then and then he grabbed my
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mommy but he got my lawyer by the
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headscarf and in any pulled off me say
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go back go back to where you came from
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I wonder I wonder if he know I was I was
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born in this country where where do I
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where do I go hi my name is Munna
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Abdullahi I'm currently a student at the
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University of Minnesota well my family
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lives three hours away I have three
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white roommates one night I heard one
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say oh she probably got into the
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university so early because she's still
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Malian and a minority and the university
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wants to display that diversity and I
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stopped her you you see here complaining
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about reverse racism but shouldn't the
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true real meaning of reverse racism
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really mean no racism and she stopped he
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says whoa crap girl girl girl I was just
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joking why are you so angry you do not
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understand the way I got here was it
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learning about me and my culture the way
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I got here was learning about you and
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your culture do you know how refused to
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wonder how I sue my food every single
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day while knowing my native tongue is
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slowly disappearing do you know is
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African Diaspora just a really really
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nice way of saying disappearing you see
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my beauty is not beauty here my body we
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start to feel shameful for not belonging
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my body is longing so yes I am angry yes
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we are angry and we are tired and we are
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tired we are tired we are tired we are
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tired we are tired we will not rest
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because we were taught that the future
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belongs to those who have prepared for
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it and we have been prepared but ever
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since we stepped into this country you
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see
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the Somali flag is the backbone of the
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night sky for a reason our culture has
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no limits or borders our future has no
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limits or borders so you see we I will