“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial National Memorial
A MOTIF is an important and usually repeating idea or theme in a work of art, a feature
in a decoration or design <a flower motif in wallpaper>, and similar ideas in music and science.
Today’s Motif: Equality
Write a narrative poem relating an experience that illustrates equality or inequality. Some of us will show an event ruled by hatred and/or racial oppression ~ a story we have been reluctant to tell. It may be as "small" as wishing we said a joke "isn't funny" to as large as turning a country around. Others may recall or imagine an event ruled by such equality that it is almost invisible. Feel free to take an historical subject if you wish.
Today, January 15th, is the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Like Nelson Mandela in South Africa, MLK worked in the USA for a non-violent solution to the isolation and oppression of Black citizens. His goal was huge: to heal the racial divide in the USA by guaranteeing to all citizens equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
In the comments below, please say what inspires you when you think about equal rights ~ a song, poem, story, artwork, event or person? Here's one of my inspirations, a poem by Countee Cullen:
Locked arm in
arm they cross the way
The black boy and the white,
The golden splendor of the day
The sable pride of night.
From lowered blinds the dark folk stare
And here the fair folk talk,
Indignant that these two should dare
In unison to walk.
Oblivious to look and word
They pass, and see no wonder
That lightning brilliant as a sword
Should blaze the path of thunder.
The black boy and the white,
The golden splendor of the day
The sable pride of night.
From lowered blinds the dark folk stare
And here the fair folk talk,
Indignant that these two should dare
In unison to walk.
Oblivious to look and word
They pass, and see no wonder
That lightning brilliant as a sword
Should blaze the path of thunder.
And another, the first song about equal rights I ever heard:
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