The Negative Aspects Of The Black Community

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a person does not need to be highly educated to naturally have a great gift. Though many black philosophers, thinkers, and those who worked in the different forms of media, helped the black community be more prosperous in the twenty-first century, we cannot always look to them as our only role models for guidance and virtue when creating a new regime for ourselves. Part of the problem with these different types of social critics is that they have a huge tendency to first focus on the negative aspects of the black community by blaming the black community for not empowering themselves more. Besides focusing on black folks that never finished their education on time, it also involves steering more young people into these technical schools. A person
I can tell that this is a young mother, since her face was fresh and the lines of her face were very organic. Although many people would assume that this piece is a black representation of Mary and the baby Jesus, in my opinion, it represents how many single mothers want the best for their children - mainly when it comes to single mothers raising their sons into the world, since their fathers are either absentee or dead beat dads. I see some the dark values of the mother’s veil shadow almost making her fade away in the scene while her son was still visible. Furthermore, I believe the piece also represents how some of the single mothers in the world would not be able to provide for their children of their everyday needs. If their motherly presence is gone, how are the men in the world supposed to learn about responsibility and emotionally care for someone other than themselves? I also believe that when the highlight of the piece showed the mother closing her eyes, she was praying that her son would do better than her, and not be in the same predicament that she is in now. White’s lithograph in the new world order shows us that single moms cannot raise their sons to be lazy immature punks that would eventually be in jail or six feet under. Especially when it comes to African American men, they are the victims of too many homicides by either police brutality or black
This is also one of the examples of the New Negro using their gifts because they are not a bunch of sharecroppers growing some crops for the white man, but black men in proper clothing looking out for their community. Although Marshall’s painting controversially has his black men being pitch black which was one of the usual black stereotypes, it seems that the men were refreshing a yard outside the apartment complex by having them all plant some flowers in the different gardens. Most of the figures in the painting were in abstraction, which includes Marshall purposefully leaving many drips of paint colors on top of some of his figures that was seen in the flowers in the foreground and the white cloud located at the right hand corner. In addition to this, majority of the colors were very analogous especially when it came to the different shades and values of yellow in the apartment buildings and some of the plants while there were different varieties of green within the trees and grass. There were a lot of geometric shapes located in the apartment buildings and the welcome sign. The rest of the figures located mostly in the foreground, contained organic shapes. This painting also tells us that we should take good care of nature even if it is located in an unpleasant

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