Women of Anahuac | Poem by Alicia Lopez

Women of Anahuac

Listen up women of Anahuac!! My beautiful women of Anahuac!!
Will you wake up and stop keeping your mind locked up!
Sisters stop letting yourself get hopped up and molded into what the
European culture and media wants you to be!!
They want us to think like them, they want us to act like them, they
want us to look like them!
How can we pretend? How can we forget?
What our women went through!! Murdered, raped!!!
Please for their sake....let's not let them win! Let's not give in!!!
To what they want us to be! How they want us to think!!!!
They want us to be ashamed of our Indigenous backgrounds
Sisters let's stand our ground!!!!
We will not hate our shades of brown! Whether light or dark!
Don't let no one keep us down let's be proud of who we are!!!
We will not look up to Barbie and Paris Hilton
We will look up to our true heroes like Frida Kahlo
Not malinches like Jessica Alba
No more believing false history, and lies!!!!
We will not dye our hair blonde!
We will not wear blue contacts!
Please stop putting on an act!
No more I'm Hispanic, no more I'm Latina!!
Enough is enough!!!
Let's not be ashamed of who we are!
We are brown! We are beautiful!
We are the women of Anahuac!
Rise up women of Anahuac
My beautiful brown women of Anahuac rise up!!!

Alicia Lopez ©

By Alicia Lopez June 2, 2011