Hi. As one of the creative inspirations from the course, and inspired by the movie Crash, one of the students has presented the following poem... Here, I am sharing it with the rest of you! My own inspirations are attached here too... in the form of paintings...The first one is called 's o c i e t y', and is a beaded canvas (i used square plastic beads and chains, and the play of colour and light is of particular interest to me).. and the second one is an oil on canvas, titled 'MultiCULTuralism'.
WHY RACISM?
What is a difference
Something unique and distinct
New and never experienced
opposing what you are used to
A difference is what we strive for
In day to day living
We sweat to bring a difference
A difference in a form of bread for survival
We even long for that special someone
Whom we wish to devot our lives to
To make our lives different
Pleasant and sharable with the other
Perhaps after vows are done
We want to celebrate in a different way
In a different special place
To make it a rememberable one
Race is the difference
A distinction according to colour
Skin colour,eye colour
And perhaps the degree of the streaghtness of the hair
There are two types of dfifference good and bad
Who created diffference
Perhaps God for if it was men
It would imply that man created man
Who decides which difference is good or whichj is bad
Perhaps man satisfying his attitude and beliefs
Why racial prejudice
Historically white to black
post-election black to white or vice verca
Why not see race a a good difference
A difference that is embedded within cultural diversity
And thus race could be adventurous
We unlock the uniqueness and distinctiveness
across racial bounderies
Who created colour and certain connotations related to each
Red for love,pink for feminity
Altimately white for brightness and civilisation
Black for backwardness and damness
As defined by the Western Oxford dictionary
Human beings are not animals or things to be identified by colour
Neither are they objects around our social world
What is being refered to as white is not really white
But perhaps pinkish
What is labelled black may be brownish
Who catergorised human to racial groups
Why not perhaps according weight,or hieght
Why colour when physical features and blood is the same colour
There is but one race,the human race!!!
written by :Nokulunga Khanyisile Mkhize
206506219
