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'COLORED' :: 'PERSON OF COLOR'

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by UNWILTED

by UNWILTED

blackness is
an absence—
and yet.

in truth, colorless—
and yet.

brown, in fact—
and yet—black.

and yet—colored.

not a person:
a person.

not a person:
a person of .

but mostly,
not a person
at all.