Think about it. Black mail, Black Monday, and Black Plague to name a few. In Cowboy Western movies, the bad guys always wear the color black.
My question is the title of a poem that I wrote during my college years, but I put a spin on it. My spin was that good guys are black. I cited the man who wrote the book, Three Muskeeters, the man that invented the cotton gin, the man who created the traffic light, the man who created the blood bank, and at the time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My poem was a tribute to his hard work and the creation of a holiday in his honor.
Today, I would have to update my poem to include President Barack Obama, maybe golfer Tiger Woods, definitely filmmaker Tyler Perry, and basketball legend Michael "Air" Jordan. I'd have to include the names of some black women like the Williams Sisters (Serena and Venus), Daytime Talkshow Queen and Mogul Oprah Winfrey, WNBA player Lisa Leslie, and Presidential Poet Maya Angelou, how black music and culture have been stolen, accepted, and mainstreamed into our present day culture. How "black" is now thought as of a "cool" color to wear and its "sliming" powers on the people that wear it.
The spin on black has become. Like a friend of mine said, "black don't crack." Slogans like "fear of a black planet", "black is beautiful", "black by popular demand" and "five on the black hand side" still resonate in some homes and streets.
Some try to denounce the color and others bad mouth it...beware.
The grim reaper may wear black. And black clouds always indicate heavy thunder or rain storms. The color black may get a bad rap. Some feel the color is inferior. Others view it as a warning side of bad news or events. The color "red" gets that rap, too. No one in business wants to be "in the red" with their books. Hospitals also hate when they are in a "code red" situation.
People can say what the want about the color "black." I think the kaleidscope shades of "brown" look wonderful on my people.
Posted By: Marsha Jones
Friday, November 20th 2009 at 5:12PM
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