Black Women's Bodies as the Site Of...

...being wrong. Black women have fought extremely hard to be accepted in today's society and yet we still aren't fully accepted. In 'Poem about My Rights', Ms. Jordan talks about how a Black woman could be raped and the rapist still wouldn't be charged. She depicts how Black women are resented by all types of people in society, including family, for many different reasons. The wrongness depicted in the poem reminds me of the racial identities in 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and how the Shirley Temple cup determined what and who was right and wrong. In the end of Jordan's poem she comes to the realization that it doesn't matter what people say or how the feel about you, it doesn't mean its true. You are right as long as you think, feel and know you are.