Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. It’s only white skins and masks Flashing past and slashing, Destroying my sight so I can’t get what I want I cry and sing to them The inbred tune of our people I shouted to them in the black tongue But no black sister hears me: Only white masks I see. I turn and weep upon myself And then, only then I realise: I am not black either.

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Read the given poem and respond to the subsequent questions that follow: Lost Beauty: By Jwani Mwaikusa There are only white women around: Awful fakes of white females Reflecting an awful mass of ugliness: And I want a lady To mount the rostrum with And declare to the world: Black is beautiful Yes, I want a black beauty queen With ebony thighs and huge hips With skin sweating blackness And a face dark as the night And bare breasts bouncing Vigour and energy. But my eyes, oh my eyes! They don’t see anything black: It’s only white skins and masks Flashing past and slashing, Destroying my sight so I can’t get what I want I cry and sing to them The inbred tune of our people I shouted to them in the black tongue But no black sister hears me: Only white masks I see. I turn and weep upon myself And then, only then I realise: I am not black either.

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