Louis Armstrong Black And Blue Analysis
Power Outages Louis Armstrong’s “Black and Blue” uses simple questions for someone to recognize both he and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man are comparable. To be comfortable and confident in your own skin is a recurring problem for people of color and seems to always be brought up in today’s society. Louis Armstrong goes on to say that “his only sin is his skin” and asks “how will it end?” (Armstrong). Different skin tones have separated all humans to a point of no belonging. Invisible is convinced that he is a traitor to his own grandfather because he is courteous towards white people. To feel like a two-timer towards the same species as you is something mankind should not have to face. The African American culture shouldn’t be referred to
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I never believed that one race could be suppressed by the media so much until 2016 came around. Today, the media quickly goes to the scenes with no time to ever really think about what they want to truly say. Through all of the written scripts and tv monitors, most opinions are filtered to give the people what they want to hear. People today are focused more on the dream of “perfect houses and nice lawns… Memorial Day cookouts, block associations, and driveways” rather than living in the moment (Coates 11). In today’s society, football players are denying the request of standing for our national anthem out of respect of their heritage and pursuing their idea of a dream. This issue intersects the idea of a white man’s dream and parallels Coates’s thoughts on how his family “would not stand for their anthems” (Coates 28). Colin Kaepernick, a NFL football player, started this movement by deciding to sit while our nation’s anthem played through Levi’s Stadium. Ali Farka Toure, a Malian prince in one of Martin Scorsese’s films, states that there are no black Americans, but only blacks in America who left their culture. If someone proves this issue to be true, why are the athletes so offended by the wrongdoings of this country? “God gives ambitions to all of us” but out of respect for the people fighting overseas, the people who took their lives for our freedom, and the families who will never see their loved ones again, the least these citizens could do is stand for a two minute chorale
I never believed that one race could be suppressed by the media so much until 2016 came around. Today, the media quickly goes to the scenes with no time to ever really think about what they want to truly say. Through all of the written scripts and tv monitors, most opinions are filtered to give the people what they want to hear. People today are focused more on the dream of “perfect houses and nice lawns… Memorial Day cookouts, block associations, and driveways” rather than living in the moment (Coates 11). In today’s society, football players are denying the request of standing for our national anthem out of respect of their heritage and pursuing their idea of a dream. This issue intersects the idea of a white man’s dream and parallels Coates’s thoughts on how his family “would not stand for their anthems” (Coates 28). Colin Kaepernick, a NFL football player, started this movement by deciding to sit while our nation’s anthem played through Levi’s Stadium. Ali Farka Toure, a Malian prince in one of Martin Scorsese’s films, states that there are no black Americans, but only blacks in America who left their culture. If someone proves this issue to be true, why are the athletes so offended by the wrongdoings of this country? “God gives ambitions to all of us” but out of respect for the people fighting overseas, the people who took their lives for our freedom, and the families who will never see their loved ones again, the least these citizens could do is stand for a two minute chorale