Day 8 Pics: Matt Singleton

Day 8 New Response #6 Kevin Scott

Malcolm

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Day #8 Response: Lola Ogbara

There are many stereotypes of African American women such as being Mammy, the Jezebel, or the Sapphire. The "Mammy" is the Aunt Jemima black woman. She is fat, almost a mother earth figure, but she has no sex appeal. She is happy with her life of faithful service to white people. She smiles and laughs. Maybe too much. She has a good heart but she is not particularly bright or even all that trustworthy. In the 1960s the matriarch stereotype took her place, which in turn gave rise to the welfare queen in the 1970s. The "Jezebel" is named after an evil queen in the Bible. She is the loose woman who wants sex all the time. She’s gotta have it but at the same time she uses sex to draw men in to get what she wants. Sometimes it is money. Sometimes it is to destroy them. The "Sapphire" named after a character in “Amos ‘n’ Andy”, always seems to have her hands on her hips while she is running her mouth – putting down her man, making everything into a fight, never taking anything lying down. She is an overbearing, hard and undesirable woman who drives men away – and so winds up alone. Think of Tichina Arnold’s character Pam in “Martin”.

The stereotype that my picture represents is the mad Black woman. I chose this picture because to me, it represents the stereotype of angry Black women. In this movie, "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman", a woman had gotten divorced after years of marriage. She was hurt and because of that, she was angry and skeptical about starting a new relationship with anyone after being committed to one person for so long. In my opinion, not ALL Black women are mad or angry. I myself can prove that stereotype wrong. I am not an angry person, a jezebel, a mammy, or a sapphire and there are plenty other women I know who are not that also. 

Response #6 Malcolm

Music sometimes draws me away from my family. I’m not drawn apart from my friends because most of my friends are usually with me doing music or working on there on projects. Sometimes it just requires you to be alone, time to think and compose work. There are numerous different sound and techniques, and programs to use; it requires a lot of focus can be confusing at times. What to record should here be effects, what style should it be. Then putting yourself into the song what images do you want to convey, what mood do is being set , what do you want the reader to be thinking about after it’s over. That’s what I think about when I do a song. It should be more than just guns drugs and money. That’s not life for everyone and even if it is your life, it’s something deeper always that can touch someone. My family says that when I go to the studio I always do good work but right after, I’m irritable, moody and just a mean person, if the visit was productive or not. I’m just angry after. The studio became an outlet for me; it brings back past emotions and allows me to reminisce on the past, a different me. That’s how I become drawn away from my family, there’s Malcolm the artist, the performer who experienced it all, and lived that life then there’s also the side of me that’s knows the result of that life style. Being in the studio talking about the past emotionally takes me back to where I was, when I was away from my family