The Treatment of Race

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Subject Area:English

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This paper will look deep in to poems by both Marcus Wicker and Jamaal May and come with how the two treat race in their writing. In Conjecture on the Stained Glass Image of White Christ at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Marcus Wicker brings out a complaint of race in relation to Christ. He reasons out on why we are said to me made in the image of God and yet everything about Him is done in a white man’s way. The picture in the Baptist church is white and not any other race. A black woman in the poem claims that if she is made in His image, why is it that a 28-year-old black woman in a blue patterned maxi dress cruising through Hell on Earth has being made and not white.

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That no matter how right you are, your color betrays you. He calls racial segregation. Why face a different treatment from other for similar mistakes or activities? The two poems are thus looking at the black treatment by other races. They show how differences exist in the church and in police. That being black means something else that what other races are taken to be. In Conjecture on the Stained Glass Image of White Christ at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Marcus Wicker can’t understand why the religion is much of white than any other race. In the start, we get a glass image of a white Christ. Why should this Christ be white? There are so many races which Christ could be (Wicker and Marcus, pg.

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The writer goes ahead and examines the shrines in some races. If we are made in God’s image why don’t those shrines be made decorative with copper and other ornaments and God worshiped from there? Instead, they are taken to be bad and a Whiteman’s fashion taken to be the best for a church. Jesus in the margins. Of hurricane & sea. Jesus of busted levees in chocolate cities. Jesus of the Middle East (Africa) & crows flying backwards. These poems occupy a space where calls to abstractions are spoken in a language that pulls no punches but, ultimately, are acts of pure faith. The two poems are well written and they are a lament of racial segregation. Any reader can well grasp the point form them.

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