Hey! What's going on everybody my name is Iman Cross and also known as AlphaCat on
YouTube and today we're gonna talk a little Black History.
I found out at a young age that my great-grandfather and his twin brother were both vaudeville actors,
but back then there was something called blackface. So when I look at that
when I look at what vaudeville used to be with the minstrel shows and blackface
and all these things back in a time where you weren't allowed to be onstage
unless you were in blackface you know they they didn't allow a lot of black
actors on stage and when they did you had that even they had to be in
blackface to ridicule their own people, but they were paving a way for other
actors and performers to have a stage, to have a voice, to have a presence, to be
able to perform and that slowly opened the door for a lot more and a lot of
other things that black actors and performance were able to do.
Now when you look at things we have so many more opportunities exponentially than we had
back in those days, so now we have the opportunity to create and be represented
and to tell our stories without the insult of a blackface, without the
insult of burning cork and smearing it on our faces. We can actually tell our real stories.
This piece I found by an artist by the name of Toyin Ojih Odutola.
What caught me about this is hearing her talk about using true black
in her paintings, which you don't see a lot. When I was in Art School I had a
teacher who was very adamant about how you blend colors and she made a point of
saying, "There is no true black." It made me wonder what is true black? You know in
society what does it mean to be black? And that's just such a broad question,
but it let me know and reminded me that we have a beautiful opportunity now to
tell our stories, to be who we are, to be creative really free you know and to
creatively love and express and our ancestors paved the way for that all
Alright everybody this has been me Iman Cross and AKA AlphaCat from YouTube.
Please be sure to check out Google Arts and Culture and the Black History Month
exhibits there. Appreciate ya. Deuce.
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