The Black Panther In James Mcbride's The Father Of Water

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Do you think colors matter in life? Can lies be covering all time, or it's better to say the truth? Why different races don’t get along with each other. In the world we see how every race has their own space and culture. Because of that we don’t interact with different people from us. This is some reason why we don’t get along with differents culture.
In the COLOR OF WATER, at the beginning of chapter 4 we see James McBride asking many questions to his mother Ruth. what were those questions that James was asking for his mom? When James was little he start asking questions why he was different from his mother Ruth. James starts asking to his sibling if they know why he was different from his mother. James brother Richi told him that it doesn’t matter why he is different. …show more content…

James thought that the black panther was going to do something to his mother Ruth. People who had read the book has question herself why they include the black panther in the book. What role does it play the Panthers in James Story. “ I understand now, understand how her christian principles and trust in God kept her going through all her life’s battles, but as a boy, my faith was not strong.” When James Punched the black panthers kid his reaction was showing many things, towards his native race and what he know and see about the black panthers in the new. The news were saying that Black panthers were bad people and that they hate white people. James mixed race upbringing leads to conflicted about the Civil rights movement and racial justice. While on the one hand James is proud of his blackness, and thinks of black panthers as intrinsically cool. He has also absorbed white cultural concerns that black people are a threat. Therefore, although he is excited by civil right gains by black people, he naively worries that his mother, a white woman, is at risk from militant black

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