America’s Black Seed (The Painting)

This painting actually accompanies the poem entitled “America’s Black Seed” and was meant to express the internal frustrations that exist withing young Black men in modern America. Now be mindful this is not the sentiment of the Black men who live in “Black America” as you know it. This the the Black part of America that would be better defined as a “colony” that an actual “active participant” in the American experiment that is Democracy. This painting (or the man in it) is not one to conform to processes or political correctness. He is outside of the matrix that is America as he has only seen and experienced the disgusting, vile, dark, and dilapidated places that those in power refuse to acknowledge. This man lives on 55th, 43rd, or 79th in the places where the police hesitate to explore without guns drawn. He’s from the place that resembles apartheid South Africa in the 70’s and 80’s. Ultimately he is a man who has been denied so much that he has begun to deny himself the right (no the responsibility) to be human, to be happy, to be at peace…