My art represents a family with two different cultural backgrounds. In this case, the father is white, and mom is black. Due to this mix marriage, they have two kids, son is black and the daughter is white. My main goal was to express the idea that despite the colour difference, we are all humans living in one nation. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “We may have all come on different ships but we’re all in the same boat now”. What he was trying to say is that it doesn’t matter where our ancestors come from; we’re all in the same country today, living together as one community.
All in all, this course helped me to understand the fact that racism and discrimination only results in chaos. Sometimes we should put ourselves in other person’s shoes and realize what it’s like to be bullied, ignored or discriminated. By doing so we could easily understand the negativity of racism and discrimination and act in order to stop such chaotic activities in our generation. Therefore, we as humans should recognize the cultural differences and unite with each other as one nation.
