Some color status music..

What does this image tell you? Could you imagine a story behind it?

First of all, it’s clear that the person who appears in the picture is an African American man, for the position in which his hands are I can say he is disappointed for something. Then I can see the guitar, he is carrying it. There is a hypothesis about it, it’s very probable that this person is a musician and that he is kind of sad or hopeless about music. Maybe he was going to play his guitar in a specific place but maybe the owner of that place doesn’t allow him to do; probably because his skin condition.

I think is clear that man is thinking in he is going to do about the situation, maybe he is thinking hard about the opportunities African American people have in the music industry. I can say that as this person is not a rapper, his music isn’t going to be accepted by white people. Other hypothesis is that what I can see about the background maybe he is walking for the train’s road, maybe he decided to look for another place far from the one he’s coming. Maybe trying to look for other places in which he can play his music and entertain the people.But I also can imagine another story, maybe he was kicked out from his neighborhood and the only thing he could bring with him was his guitar. Maybe the most important thing for him is music and he could think that with his guitar and nothing else he could make a better life. I mean that music is going to be his work for living. Maybe he could be thinking about he is going to do for improve the situation of African American people according to the music. Maybe he is thinking a plan or a strategy to influence other African Americans to be risky and try to change the society’s mentality. Trying to show that African Americans not only make rap or hip hop, that they also can make music as other people and to show the “swing” of African Americans’ culture. I think this vision of what we can see in the picture of course is going to make us think about African American people condition and to be racist about it. We know what their opportunities they have are low but we don’t do anything to change it. We just say: Oh! Poor guy, he was rejected. We think and know there is a story behind it but we don’t think we can do little things to change that. We always think is the worst a person can be living.