The assignment instead off class!!!!!

Tisa Bryant "Unexplained Presence"

Tells a story of how people perceive the world in their own eyes. How do things really look.?

Some people can tell others secrets without evening having conversations with those people. they just have that special ability to read people. Her pieces tell about how their are differences between the maker and the reader and how everything is perceived. She uses Toni Morrison's " Playing in the Dark" to compare her views on how she feels. She is basically describing something known as the black presence. Which means they aren't acknowledged anywhere that they go. There's various I guess you would say short stories on these black presences and they are unexplained to what their purpose is or who they are. Basically meaning these people are seen as nobodies in some peoples eyes. The real story behind it is this is how the white people looked at blacks. the seen them as nothing but a black presence, they had no purpose but to do as their "maker" told them to do. This was a very long piece that had multiple stories and even a couple of short poems. these pieces basically told the story of the non-existence of the  black presence.

"The Black Automation" Douglas Kearney 

This piece was full of poems that all started off talking about a lion and each one had a different color lion. 

They were Blue, Green, Black, Red and Yellow, and these were letters to these lions that people wrote. They looked like little short poems, but they were letters talking about something and then there were replies to these letters. Each letter describes someone different in each, no two are the same. they have repetitive statements or rhetorical questions as well that didn't need an answer from the audience because they were being asked no wanting an answer because the person answered them-self.  It began with a story about the radio and the went on to tell about an lullaby for a baby. This writer was telling the life of blacks and what they did do and how they were people just like whites and how they were capable of doing all the same things. even though they had struggles they still made a living doing whatever necessary, they were no longer that black presence they were that colored lion.