I think it resonates in that book. In that book, it says that the present Negro tries to be dressed like a white, dressed like a white, and he adapts to become more white than a black person.
So he loses his identity and falls in an identity crash, and that's what and I think is the main message of this poem is be who you are.
That's the best thing. You can't be somebody else. Be, know yourself and be that self, I think.
So, I think it's a great poem. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Andov. That was what got into my mind when I started reading it. Like, you know, discipline, losing tongue, you know, unfamiliar sense.
It's just like, as you said, a black man that went over there and is back now with so many new things. Where he said, um, yesterday, he returned farther, came wearing a coat of many colors, like the tattoo I'm wearing in the closet, the stitchy tongue behind me. So it's just like he For example, now, a returnee, right? A diaspora has gone over there and now his work has changed and everything about the person has changed now.
The person is back now speaking in tongues, like, you know, bending diction and stuff like that. Trying to form foreign and stuff like that. So, yeah, that was what I was seeing.
But this is a very amazing piece. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, from what I saw around me and from what I hear in the space, you know, those in the diaspora in the Western world, they think that they are smarter than those in Africa. But they know nothing, you know. Some of them, they know nothing, but they think that they know a lot of things.
And some of them, they ain't got that much wealth, but they try to act like they've got wealth. Some of them are resembling the whites, you know, that superiority complex kind of thing. So, I despise such kind of persons, you know.
Being in the Western world doesn't make you a well-doer or a scholar. It's who you are that makes a person a person. So, it's a great poem.
Thank you. I can see your passion, Dov. I know you would speak once I was gone.
