Comparing His Eye On The Sparrow And Quicksand

I attended the Intercultural Event on October 20, 2015 at 11:20 AM hosted by Zandria Robinson. Her main concern is that black women are not well respected as white females. Women of color have had more hardships with white supremacy than any other human being. Dr. Robinson reflected on the upcoming of black feminism and how their roles tie in with pop culture. She speaks upon gender, race, gender identity, and how those have entwined with black women speaking for their communities and raising awareness for their people. You can relate Dr. Robinson’s presentation well with the books we have read in class, His eye is on the Sparrow and Quicksand. They both show the difficulty of the black community and how it is hard to get people to accept

Robinson’s presentation about the most recent generations of black women in pop culture, is very relatable in many ways. In Ethel’s story we hear about the racism she deals with her entire life. Ethel was a magnificent performer but when you read about her bumpy journey you start to put in perspective that the “Hollywood Life” is not necessarily easy to reach, or even real. You can relate this well with what Dr. Robinson says because she explained that even black women in pop culture today still show their adversities, but just in different ways. She talks about how each generational “wave” shows self-affiliation in a society that traffic in black women’s degradation. For example, singer Erykah Badu, is a very well known 21st century neo-soul music performer who takes other musicians songs like, Dr. Dre, and turn them into a song from a women’s perspective. Erykah flipped one of Dre’s songs into a song that replicates mothers who have to deal with the horrible dope game that happens often in the black community. Listening to Robinson opened my eyes more into what Ethel, and many women, actually went through. It made me think more realistically to Ethel’s upcoming and her entire culture. I learned that the world is extremely ignorant and selfish for accepting the treatment colored communities’ get and still get

I was already educated about the different cultures and white supremacies’, but I learned more about black women and their personal thoughts about how they are treated. It showed me how people who get treated the worst can have the most powerful and positive mindset then the bully themselves. This tied in too well with what our class is learning. Talking about Ethel Waters can relate to all of Dr. Robinson’s speech. This shows that after centuries, we are still facing the same problems. In the future I will definitely try to use my knowledge to show that black women should be treated equal to white women. People need to accept the past of the US and we need to get over racism altogether. Dwelling about slavery and Rosa Parks wont get us anywhere, to move forward we need to leave everything we learned in the past and just treat everyone with equality. With the new media and the consistency black women advocate for themselves, it has given them more opportunity. There have been more workspaces open, especially in media. This opens up doors because people are looking for diversity; they want people to be “different”. This will form new hyper visibility and invisibility with black women. We are making progress with the colored community and more doors are open now then before. I think we can keep this going by sharing stories of these black women and showing people that it is okay to accept everybody. I can take the knowledge