This is what I know About Art

 

1.       “Taught me that my voice was a powerful one…It was not enough to be angry. I had to be strategic.”

-          Words are powerful to the point that they can lead to trouble or even your death. It can emotionally move people or get them more interested in what you are saying. Acting with anger is not always the way to go. Especially, as a young Black woman, society would always expect us to react with anger, so they can say we act like animals, or we are too” ghetto.” The best thing to do is find a different approach, sometimes you don’t have to always open your mouth, but you can act on something that doesn’t sit right with you. That’s where art activism comes into play. Show what is wrong with the world, show the issues you face, and much more through art. Find different ways to get your message across.

2.  “Granted, you’re not “supposed” to talk about religion or politics at work, but police aren’t “supposed” to murder unarmed Black people, either.”

-          When she said this, it was said with a sarcastic tone. However, she makes valid points. We can’t speak about certain things at work, but the police get a past when they use their weapons for no reason. Which doesn’t make sense, I can see if a person has a weapon in their hand and threatening to use it but not when they are unarmed. Stuff like this pisses me off because society/ the government expects us to follow the rules when they can’t. People are dying for no reason due to police brutality. It’s time for a change because if one can’t follow the rules, why should we?

3.“Real talk- working at a small and under-resourced art institution was a powerful, humbling experience.”

-          You don’t always have to be in high and mighty places to make a change. You don’t even have to have every connection or resource. However, if you want to fight for something, make a change for something, then use what you have. Even use your social media platform, which is big in our generation and at this time in the world. You can make a change by even sitting in your bedroom.

This picture caught my attention. This kind of tactic is used in a school setting when a teacher wants you to remember a word or when a child did something wrong and wants them to write how they shouldn't do it again about 10 times on the board. From the picture, you see a white cop (they are known for police brutality against Black people) writing Black Lives Matter, covering the whole board with it. I guess this is used to get cops to keep in mind that our lives matter and stop killing us for no reason. Do I think it would work, No! But I do hope that it does get through to these white cops.