Analysis Of If We Must Die By Claude Mckay

The captivating true words of writers Claude McKay, James Weldon, and Jean Toomer resemble the atrocious events of the past couple months of the multiple homicidal murders and brutality by law enforcement against African Americans. Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and stupidity. The year of 1619 was the beginning of slavery in our country by the Europeans and did not end until 1865 , and it wasn't until almost fifty years later in 1913 that a white man was finally persecuted and sentenced for a crime against an African American. We are now a century later and equal persecution for Caucasian individuals against African Americans is still not carried out to the fullest degree today. In Claude McKay’s poem ''If We Must Die''
Also in McKay’s poem he frequently expresses that we must fight back against our oppressor so that even when we are killed they will have no choice but to remember us when dead. ''If we must die, O let us nobly die so that our precious blood may not be shed in vain; then even the monsters we defy shall be constrained to honor us though dead. An illustration of this would be the consistent marching, die ns, and sit ins of countless individuals that refuse to be silenced and allow our fellow African Americans to be murdered with no repercussions of their assailants. If we must die, let it not be like hogs hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, while round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, making there mock at our accursed lot. An illustration of this quote would be when George Zimmerman followed in pursuit and killed seventeen year old Trayvon Martin in cold blood. '' Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, and for their thousand blows deal one death blow! An illustration of this would be when countless police officers, swat teams, and national guards we're in Ferguson trying to prevent
In the poem the speaker celebrates the spirit of the black slaves whose songs dramatize strength in striving to unite with god despite worldly oppression. He honors and praises those imprudent souls who produced those inspiriting carols. After the many injustices committed by police officers many artist took it up on the recording studio and began to put those deadly actions into creative elaborations. Gage Money created a song to titled ''I’m Mike Brown''. '' He would have started soon, now there's an empty seat in class, all because of these demons hiding behind a badge''. Rick Ross, P-Diddy, the game and numerous others also collaborated and produced '' Don't shoot''. '' Throw in up our hands don't let them shoot us cause we all we got, God ain't put us on this earth to get murdered its murder.'' John Legend and Common also created a great hit called 'Glory'. ''Saw the face of Jim Crow under a eagle, the biggest weapon is to stay