Why Is Trajan Important To The African Americans

In our world people forget what you told them and people forget an experience that they had in the past, but people never forgot how they felt and how an object of significance made them feel. Furthermore, Art and it’s culture has had a great impact on the people throughout history. A painting has its significance and it was created with an intention that only the artist knows. The people who view the painting have a feeling when they see it, it connects them to their own version of fantasy and makes them feel a certain way. Similarly, The Column of Trajan was an ancient ruins, which was built in a victory by the Roman Army. It had a great significance to the people of Rome because Emperor Trajan gave them full access of this magnificent view.
The Roman soldiers were orderly and uniform, the Dacians were not. The Romans were clean shaven and the Dacians were shaggy. The Roman’s did not wear leggings and the Dacians did (“Column of Trajan”, Becker). African Americans were the Dacians, and the white people were the Roman’s. The question of identity was the central part of influencing a war because according to Romans the Dacians were nothing like them. Similarly, how Whites thought African Americans were nothing like them. This was the pin-point of Racism, so it marked more questions like is the question of identity is based on
“Migration of Negro” and Column Of Trajan are both significantly important pieces because they are a remembrance of our ancestry. It is the reason why they are so famous. They give us hope in the times that we have none by reminding us that there were people like us, in the past, who had it harder than us. This is what I call the language of Art because it is so common in every piece and it is what makes Art something unique because it talks to us by not speaking to us, but rather by making us feel a certain way when we see it in its’ incarnation of a painting or a