No one kills the black boy

"Dinosaurs in the Hood" is a very funny poem by Danez Smith. The poem is about different movies, and the dinosaurs. The reason behind picking this poem is that I like movies, and I have watched almost all the movies that Smith have mentioned in this poem. I chose the title No One Kills the Black Boy because that black boy is the main character of this poem. Smith wants to put the scene on every movies where the black boy is playing, and there are dinosaurs.

He starts the poem by mentioning the movies Jurassic park, Friday, and The Pursuit of Happyness. I have watched all these movies; Friday, The Pursuit of Happyness has a story of black people. He says that those movies should have a scene where a little black boy is playing with a toy dinosaur on a bus, and he sees T. Rex outside the windows. He says don't let Quentin Tarantino to direct this movie because it has to be very different than the one he makes. Some of the famous movies by Tarantino are Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill. In this movie, Smith wants the boy to play with guns, and remember his father's picture. He thinks that most of the black kids have gun as a toy. But later he decides to not put any of those scenes, and just give Brontosaurus or Triceratop to that boy. And this is just a reminder of a Santa or God that they still exits. He does not want any resist things on this movie. He says lets not have any stereo type scene on this movie. He does not want Wayans brothers in this movie. He does not want Will Smith or Sofia Vergara either. He wants this movie to be about the local folks, children of slaves, immigrants. He just want an old grandma shooting raptors with the gun they hid under the mattress. He wants a black kid to get the blooded neck of the dinosaur.

He wants black casts in the movie, but he insist that this can not be the black movie. He does not want this movie to be a metaphor for black people and extinction. He does not want any racial involvement in this movie. He does not want to show any black pain or struggles that black people face. He does not want to show any slavery. He says that if no one can say N word in the public then no body can use the N word in this movie, and it has to be completely out of the racism. He does not want any cheap jokes, specially chicken jokes in the movie. He says that no body dies in the movie, specially the black boy. He says three times that 'no one kills the black boy'. He wants to make this first scene because he wants to show the black boy with the dinosaurs. He wants to show to the public the dreams, endless possibilities that black boy has.

When I started reading this poem, I found it very funny. This poem is not only funny, but also very emotional. Poet Smith has done a great job writing this poem. Through this poem he wants to show that black kids do not deserve guns as toys, they should also play with the dinosaurs.