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This picture is my multi-media part of this Field Note. This picture was created by me to represent the colors we see when we hear the word "Black." It's meant to ask which one do you think of or see and how that demonstrates your meaning of that word. Do you see it as race or do you see it as a color?
Black
The color Black.
A word used to describe the well-being of the world. Of our society. Nobody really realizes the meaning of this world until it is used against them. You don’t realize how bad stingy the word feels when someone touches you with it. Sometimes it’s a good sting but communities have made it a poisonous sting. When you get stung, the disease of the word is with you forever.
“You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, so many of these people almost all of them that we see, are so poor, someone else said, and they are so black,”(Rankine, Pg. 85).
They are so Black.
What is “so black?” Is there a way to be too Black? Why do we feel the need to classify individuals by the color of their skin to their situation that they endure?
Black doesn’t represent the color of our skin. The color of our skin is Brown but because of the slurs that have come up throughout the history of our country. The word “Negro” means Black in spanish. White people have abused this word to the extent that you couldn’t imagine, forcing people of color (specifically African-Americans) to bow down to them.
Now we classify African-Americans as Black people but instead of hating it, we embrace it. We embrace the history of our ancestors through our everyday lives.
I accept my Blackness because that is what I grew up learning. I love my Black culture, I love my Black family, I love my Black community. No one can take that away from me and I will continue to find the good into that word rather than the bad.
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