Mini Blog ; Kara Walker

I actually took this picture in the newark public library. To see the drawing , “The moral arc of history ideally bends towards justice but just as soon as not curves back around toward barbarism, sadism, and unrestrained chaos” I couldn’t even understand how it was hanging in a public library. The picture was one of the most disturbing things I have seen in my 20 years of living. Upon my initial look at the photo the only thing i could make out was a black women performing oral sex on a white man while holding another black woman's hand. People may question what is so bad about that, but by observing the rest of the picture one can only conclude that the women was a slave.

A visual portrayal of the feelings and contemplations we can't or won't articulated. along these lines, it is likewise a cutting edge type of resistance. Very frequently, dark individuals are advised to forgive and never look back. We are persuaded that subjection and its belongings - prejudice, Jim Crow, and the other systemic dehumanizing arrangements that molded the American past are dead and gone. We are made to feel disgrace for the repulsive barbarities executed against us when it is we who have been wronged. Thus I value the intense style in which Kara Walker displays this work. Rather than a work portraying the misery of dark individuals, I see a work delineating our incalculable quality and strength, and our proceeded with refusal to just quiets down and take what we are "given".

No matter how hard it may be to look at , or how many times they try to censor the photo , one can’t help but notice its significant meaning . The painting has been considered controversial and has even offended some African American workers. Yet as an African American female i don't get offended looking at the drawing , rather I see the drawing as a depiction of what my ancestors or others ancestors had to endure. It is a reminder, but also a call to white people for what we will no longer put up with . Slavery is dead, racism is dead.