Temi Omogunloye Week 3 Analysis

Response
I didn't get it! I read it and read it over until I was truly convinced I really didn't understand it so I decided to break it up into pieces. Darling, uncover the darkness to see something from me a new light. When I was in six grade, I read the book "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake, talked about a girl who couldn't wrap her head around the idea of her being black. She didn't quite hate her skin but she didn't accept it; I felt finding that book was God's way of saying here, uncover the darkness. Darling was a shock for me; at first I thought it was a black woman but then I quickly realized it was a rather racist white model who had no problems sleeping her way to the top but dealing with "multiracial receptions" were not her thing. Darling did not like the black folk and the black folk knew so they showed her who she truly was and it was like a baffle to her. It was the ending that made no sense to me; "the crowd goes silent and the flute is cut short as the woman's stern white face disappears behind the grimacing black mask" (11, Bryant). Was the black mask suppose to represent her heart? The darkness she tried to hide but it too manifested into the light? Or maybe I'm thinking too deep into this... Who knows!

Analysis 

1. What themes or concerns in the presented reading are your responding to? 
• Racism and self identification. Who you are as a person reflects in what you do; how you act, carry yourself and the works you display. The Bible said it best, "By their fruit, you will recognize them".
2. What are the materials and processes you used to formulate your response? Why these? If several, which are you most concerned with?
• I used my  own understanding from the many references given. When the slight racism was first introduced by the term "gorgeous negro", I had to know what time period this was; it had to have been before the world shied against open racism. Then I had to figure out the geographical location, somewhere in South Africa, for some reason that was the only place I thought off that could have "gorgeous Negros" and open racism, not in the united states. Hmm. Then the rest was history.
3. Why these materials and processes. What are their limitations? What do they allow? 
• These process because the readings are not based in something I can do physical research unless the research ere to support a claim I made sure to the readings. The limitations it offers is that it will always be one-sided, always from my personal feelings on the matter and not adhering to the logic of things. 
4. What choices did you make? (For example, the tone of a piece of writing, or the lighting decisions for a photograph.) What led your decision-making about them? 
• I wrote it in the manner of how my brain processed it; which was confusion. The feelings I have towards it are a it of contempt and sadness. Contempt for the character Darling and sadness for the knowledge that this existed at some point in history and it was the norm. 
5. What did you learn through this response? (You can address new knowledge or new questions you’ve gained regarding the class reading, the materials/processes you used, or both.)
• I learned that I have a low tolerance for low level racism of the past. It's almost as though the intolerance of the characters who perform these actions that I would consider heinous, cannot perceive what could possibly be wrong with what they're doing.