How much does it cost to be Barbie for a day?
Let's go back in time.
Kill a few kings.
Move a few pawns around.
Change the rules that the deciders convey.
How bout we let black go first.
Let's unscramble the European spore.
What if the Africans were the colonializers?
And the standards of beauty flowed from Nile,
To the very bottom of the Victoria pour.
Girl, what are you if you aren't dark and beautiful?
If your lips aren't thick,
If your hips aren't wide,
If your skin isn't like a rich chocolate,
And I'm talking about that high cocoa content
Then you'll never be as beautiful as that Ethiopian Queen
You'll never dance with the Somali stars
You'll never walk alongside the Mali Models
You are nothing but blonde, yellow, blue-eyed, skinny-eyed, red-hair, germanic, celtic, anglo, caucus semitic, trash!!!
But!! for 4 easy payments of your dignity and sanity
We can lay this mask over your personality
We can destroy your dreams
And give you all kinds of creams
We can reduce you to eye candy
Hide that pale and ghostly image from the world
And spend hours removing those dirty curls
Natural blonde? Dry out that hair!
And do whatever it takes to replicate that look you saw in Times Square.
So give me everything you have.
And Just run your pockets dry.
Because I put a price on beauty,
And its your consumeristic duty
To be willing to buy.
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