Analysis Of The Poem 'The Cost Of Separation'

“The Cost of Separation, the appeal to division”, the title of my poem which is based on how equality is a slumbering ravine that peels away creativity until society is in a state of sleep pushing a game. This recurring game of catch up, never truly catches up so when we feel as though we have caught up it is no longer sweet. There is a direct juxtaposition between the image a people have in media and the relationship these people have with others. Also depending on this relationship the existence of these people and their roots can be put in danger as a result of a lack of a link. The “link” is simply an understanding between people acknowledging each other’s presences as people, usually the result of extensive research down to find the nature …show more content…
But as President Obama stated, “... The reason that the organizers used the phrase “black lives matter” was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter,” he said. “What they were suggesting was, there is a specific problem that is happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address.” Black Lives Matter was well aware of how pure art lied in the color race and we as a society needed to make a change then keep that pace, acknowledging how in media black parents push their kids to get a job to earn a place, yet knowledge is the way. So media helps uneducated people of color continue ignorantly in a race, to entertain in a racist entertainment that is maintaining false images of blacks. An examples of such is Black Hawk Down, because although in real life Somalis were killing Americans, the movie never gives a reason or why the Americans where in Somalia in the first place. This movie depicts Somalis in this shallow story as faceless enemies, who kill Americans without any purpose. This racism exists in cartoon movies as well like in the movie Avatar, Avatar, a white savior movie. In this film the protagonists get implanted in an endangered culture, they later become this culture’s leaders and use the natives’ tools, weapons, and fighting style to defeat their enemy who is depicted as all-powerful white invaders. So with this in mind, the tools always existed to beat their enemy so why couldn’t a native fighter who has lived their whole life in that culture with way more experience fighting for their way of life, be the one to defeat the evil? This would suggest the question of was it even necessary to have a white outsider in