Ease Around All

Blog Entry 2

 

            The idea of the passage “Black Power” by James McBricle was the principle that identity can be shown through may thing including pride of race. The concept of Black power was originated in the late 1960’s with the creation of the “reform” group named the Black Panthers. Their ideals were that the original view of nonviolent approach to civil rights was just not getting the right message across in a timely enough fashion. The leaders of this activist groups included Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale were advocates of placing the idea of fear into the “White Devils” mind, that this idea that they were not only threatened mentally but physically at risk would encourage the idea of change to be equal. The physical presence of fear is highlighted in this passage by the car that the author talks about on page 26 he says “Our favorite was a gleaming black, souped-up GTO… He drove like a madman… We thought he was God. But there was a part of me that feared black power very deeply for obvious reason.” This page gives an analogy for the real movement of black power, it in fact highlighted the ideas of fear and power they possessed over people in the sense they looked up to the group heading the “Black Power” movement  in the Black Panthers they were revered as a higher power such as God. This passage is not a story about his identity this section of writing is not about who James McBricle is, while I personally do not know Mr. McBricle reading a chapter from his book these ideals of Black vs. White are not the ideals he was raised with or appear evident.