Personal Narrative: The Magic Negro

Experience: When I realized where my seat was I was a little angry. I was sitting in the front row (row A). When Mark Kendall (The Magic Negro first) appeared on stage, he was very warming and welcoming. This made me feel at ease and not so upset about being in the very front. His scenes were very clever. I really enjoyed the Dr. Seuss scene because he made the story into something that related to the topic. In his version of Green, Eggs, & Ham a white person told Sam he does not say the N word and that he would not say it anywhere. Then Sam convinces him to use it. He uses it and then he says he loves the N word and that he would say it any day in any place. At the end of the story, Kendall says “Well kids the moral of the story is: he always …show more content…
He did it in a funny way, but it was not how he said it, it was what he said. The things he said really made me think. For example, the lyrics of the shark song was telling the story of the black man. The song was an analogy representing all the things black people today go through. One of the lyrics said something along the lines of white people record me getting hurt/killed, but nothing will be done about it. That lyric/line was powerful to me. As a black person, I understood exactly what he meant by that. He was referring to the Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, and other similar situations. Kendall’s message successfully delivered to audience, but I do not know if everyone received the message. I do not believe the white people read between the lines, or at least not all of them. If it is not relatable, it may have flown over their heads.
Catharsis: I did not really feel any emotional change or release. I am thankful that he is trying to spread the message of our struggle. During the play, I was wondering do the white people get what he is trying to say and will it even touch one of them? I am not saying that all whites were oblivious, but I was just curious to know if they got the big picture or