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There’s
A Future In Blackness
By
Dorothy Riggs McCall They
say a picture is worth a thousand words,
And
I found that phrase to be true.
As
I beheld a piece of art,
In
my mind these words flowed through.
The
picture called “Black is Beautiful,”
Jumped
out and grabbed my attention.
I
stared for several minutes,
And
studied from every dimension.
The
colors; black and white
Screamed
quite loud to me.
Society
makes them so important
When
they really shouldn’t be.
Webster
implies that blackness is
Sinister,
sadness and sorrow.
As
if blacks should believe
That
there’s just no hope for tomorrow.
The
beautiful black girl in the picture, I’m sure would boldly
oppose
As
she stares into her future, where she’ll stop, nobody knows.
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**Inspired by Elizabeth Catlett’s 1968
lithograph “Black Is Beautiful" |
