by Marcus Flakes

Created on: December 21, 2009

The Post Aesthetic Movement is an artistic response made by African Americans to the black aesthetic movements of the 1960’s. African Americans have always tried to prove their equality in America and all over the world. However, racism was far more intense for blacks to break the ice of slavery. In this discussion, I will interpret an overview of social changes and politics from as early as the 1600s to the 20th century (Gen-X).  In essence, the powers of American Culture, which include media, writers and journalists of all generations, have portrayed the black people to be inferior to all ethnicities.

 Today, African Americans have been portrayed as looking inward for answers to their own questions, rather than always looking to the outside world. This eliminated the statement I've heard in my generation, "It's the white man's fault I can't get a job." This is nothing more than a misconception of freedom and rights that Martin Luther King Jr. made way for black communities.

The American culture had to mature from many aspects of the African American counterculture. Blacks have experienced slavery since 1600 to 2009. Between the 16th and 18th century, racism started with black status of Christianity, the fact that blacks could not speak well enough to understand good English, as well as the color of their skin. In the early 1660s, a law was passed that made blacks slaves, in which they called it, Durante vita. This meant during life or for life in Latin terms. They crippled the black race by passing hereditary laws and permanent slavery for blacks. 

In comparison, let’s analyze a fiction movie in the 1960’s era that relates to counter racism. Watch the movie, Planet of the Apes; it clearly depicts the differentiation between blacks and whites in that era. The American white man tried to prove that they were normal people and that they were intelligent as well. The Apes did not concur with their testimonies; therefore, the American would be held for slavery and research for psychological studies. The example provided implicate reverse psychology of unfair treatment in an upside down world—a confused world. Of course, under fictional theory there are many themes that can be declared when history is at play.

In the early 1660s, a law was passed that made blacks slaves, in which they called it, Durante vita. This meant during life or for life in Latin terms. They crippled the black race by passing hereditary laws and permanent

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