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The work that I have chosen to focus my response on is Amiri Baraka’s, “Dutchman.” The story centers around an middle class African American man name Clay and a 30-year-old woman name Lula on a train ride. This work is very relevant to this theme because it focuses on the racial exploitation and oppression that is present throughout the work, even though it is seen as Lula is simply joking around with Clay, at first. Baraka’s intention for the work was to show the difficulty of becoming a man and maintaining that manhood in America. The work illustrated the downfall of African American men in America who try to disguise who they are and their true identities in order to assimilate to the American society. This, unfortunately, will could them to become victims of invisibility, blindness, and alienate from black people. I love Baraka’s point and what he has to convey to the story, but I don’t believe that being silence and ignoring the situation is as bad as he makes it see or shouldn’t make it seem as though black are assimilating to the American society. I feel like we as black people don’t have to be wild and go on the killing rampage. I loved that we gained our success with the civil rights though peaceful riots. Personally, I feel as though if you are silent and rallying, they you don’t have to be violent. Just like Clay quotes, “... 
Bessie 
Smith 
is 
saying,
"Kiss 
my 
ass, 
kiss 
my 
black 
unruly 
ass." 
Before
 love, 
suffering, 
desire, 
anything 
you 
can 
explain, 
she's 
saying, 
and 
very 
plainly, 
"Kiss 
my 
black
ass" (Baraka 1958) indicates that we can ignore the problem from a violent stand point, but can be aware of the problem in a passive way through art and music. Though Clay says that music can’t help solve... ... middle of paper ... ...back to when Lula said, “may the people accept you as a ghost of the future and we’ll pretend the people cannot see you”. This indicates that by Lula killing Clay, this is causing his to turn into the “ghost of the future” which mean that he will be another victim as she continues to manipulate, seduce and murder innocent black men and that he will be that person that no one will care about or will remember. I definitely enjoy the text because it definitely gets the reader thinking about how this play relates to the generation now. There will always be a Lula and a Clay in the world, but it is up to the Clay in the situation to fall for the foolishness of such a woman. The theme of alienation and invisibility is such a crucial theme because we are still facing racial exploitation and oppression through the murders and injustices that our black men continues to face.

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