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The allusion I chose to use is the one where Young talks about his experience with Black Fatherhood. Often times Black fathers are portrayed as absent from their child’s life. However, Young’s poem Expecting effectively expresses the joy of Black fatherhood. Young compares hearing his child’s heartbeat for the first time to hearing Hip Hop for the first time and the power that comes with it. There is always a certain level of risk when loving a Black child, and the fear that the world’s power will snatch them from your grasp. Yet, Young sees this new addition in his life as power—to change society’s image of Black people, to shape our generation, and to love another Black being. I chose to use a picture from one of my favorite Instagram accounts. The page is called The Dad Gang, and it posts pictures of real Black fathers being fathers. The picture is one of a Black man in bed asleep with his child asleep next to him. Something so simple, yet is rarely seen in the media. Good Black father do exists, and they are breaking society’s image of them. Young love for his child and the love this man is beautiful. These expressions of love show how loving blackness, and specifically Black men loving their Black children is not archaic—it is real, present, and promising.

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“WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING,

JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF

MODERN TECHNOLOGY” (Black Panther Party).

The allusion I chose for my artifact annotation is Black Humanity, which the Black Panther Party emphasizes in their ten-point plan. The Black Panther Party recognized that Black Humanity and Black Americans right to it was being lost in political translation. Therefore, they decided to use a format very similar to the U.S. Bill of Rights and the U.S. constitution to share what they wanted from “The Racist American Leaders” in our government. What the Black Panther Party was demanding was the right to humanity. Humanity was freely given to white America while Blacks had to travel from the bottom of slave ships to the Jim Crow south before their humanity could be recognized. The picture I chose was captured at the 1968 Memphis sanitation march. These men were not just marching for fair treatment as sanitation workers, but they were also fighting to be recognized as men. We as Americans, especially Black Americans should never forget that our humanity was not freely given, but was something we had to fight to attain. The Black Panther Party’s determination to gain their God given rights affirms what the signs that the Black men in Memphis carried. They were men and therefore deserved the rights of a man.

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“Effectively, the black family in America is working without a safety net. When financial calamity strikes—a medical emergency, divorce, job loss—the fall is precipitous” (Coates)

The allusion I chose for my artifact annotation was the Racial Wealth Gap that Ta-Nehisi Coates references in his notable article, “The Case for Reparations”. Coates recognizes that Blacks lives although better are still lagging behind those of their White counterparts. Although Black teen pregnancy and Black poverty has decreased the income gap between White and Black households have not changed in five decades. I think that this image is not only powerful but it is extremely relatable to today’s world. The artist Khalil Bendib entitled the cartoon, “Suffocating Black Wealth”. Bendib uses the famous imagery of Eric Garner, a Black man living in Staten Island, and the arrest and subsequent death of Garner to accurately depict the issues that play a role in Black wealth. Bendib identifies institutional racism, deindustrialization, segregation, sub-prime lending, and police brutality as the methods used to limit Black wealth. Coates focuses solely on the housing and loan discrimination, and rightfully so to help readers understand the obstacles to Black wealth. However, Bendib helps to give reader better context to what Coates is talking about in his article. Not only does Housing and Loan discrimination impacts Black wealth, but it gives way to more deindustrialization, segregation, institutional racism, sub-prime lending, and police brutality.