It’s not as easy as simply escaping the system. Those who the system abuses still must often work within the system because there is no alternative. This is part of the problem of being a person of color in America’s racist system. Wanting to escape but having to work within the system is tremendously taxing. This is especially true for Black Americans. Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks addresses this complex dilemma. “The points of his book centered around the contradiction of being black but needing to adjust to a world defined by whites.” (Newby, et. Al) For an academic like Fanon, there was little to no taking off his “white mask.” A Black artist in today’s America, like Kendrick Lamar, has the opportunity to publicly denounce any white mask and be proud of his Blackness in a society that tries to equate Black with
It’s not as easy as simply escaping the system. Those who the system abuses still must often work within the system because there is no alternative. This is part of the problem of being a person of color in America’s racist system. Wanting to escape but having to work within the system is tremendously taxing. This is especially true for Black Americans. Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks addresses this complex dilemma. “The points of his book centered around the contradiction of being black but needing to adjust to a world defined by whites.” (Newby, et. Al) For an academic like Fanon, there was little to no taking off his “white mask.” A Black artist in today’s America, like Kendrick Lamar, has the opportunity to publicly denounce any white mask and be proud of his Blackness in a society that tries to equate Black with