"The Little Black Boy" by William Blake (poetry reading)

from Songs of Innocence

Blake died in 1827, not 1927. Sorry about that.

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[Salvac88]

IS THIS RACIST???

[SpokenVerse]

@Salvac88 Racism wasn't invented until early 20th century. What do you think?

[vivascargill1]

@SpokenVerse no around 1800 after the rebellion in Haiti



[SpokenVerse]

@vivascargill1 I only meant the word Racism. Of course it existed as a practice. I remember my geography master asking the class "What was the biggest island in the world before Australia was discovered?".

[rappamarfil]

I think ( from the point of view of a light pigment skin ) the little black boy facilitates experiencing in the imagination ( at the level of the sensory input ) dark or black pigmentation . It is an exercise similar to what a gifted painter may do on a canvas . You see a scene but you also " SEE " Monet " seeing " that scene or your artist of choice . It is like " put yourself in another shoes " . So in the little black boy in proportion of the level at which a light pigmented person imagin

[sicemtoto]

Merry Christmas Actress I saw that e-mail you got your Christmas came early! I'll be up commenting on more videos nite nite

[sexibones101]

Go to bed it'll go up tomorrow I almost burnt my ham and my sweet potato pond! You know I cook my dinner Xmas Eve night. Artemis is gonna love the doll house you brought Merry Christmas!

[sicemtoto]

I'm up waiting on you to upload your video Deck the Halls conclusion lmao drinking my eggnog my kids are sleeping Artemis was tryna wait up to see Santa but she's out! lol

[sexibones101]

@sicemtoto I'm glad you took my advice and read this . Yes our family is heavily mixed and what you said is true too I can't deny the white and black blood running through my veins and I don't but you know I love the written word and this is the first time I've read his work I still think it sounds racist but some of the comments mention and says he wasn't like that so, like I said it depends on how a person's raised he was very talented your right about that :) xoxoxo

[sicemtoto]

My great great grand father was mixed race white and black. My family is heavily mixed some people tell me you ain't all black . I tell them what black person in America really is. I don't know this man but it was kinda disturbing to read this . I truly think all races are more enlightened today then in this man's time and era . He was truly gifted tho his poetry is amazing . I may not like this one? But you can't deny his literary talent .

[sexibones101]

This IS racist . Its just to some white people's point of view it won't seem to be . That man was raised during a time when whites thought of blacks as savages demons and probably some hell spawn of Satan . He doesn't equate blackness to anything positive . But you can't fault a child on how he is raised . Its when he becomes an adult and aware that we all ..walk on two feet talk different languages has eyes mouth lips ears to hear and intellect we'll all go back to dust fear is a terrible thing

[noigirl]

its not being racist i think hes saying that being blacks a good thing, i also rember that william blake was supost to be welcoming to the black people he met

[evan12345a]

This was written by one of the few ' white' men that WASN'T racist...