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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.02,0:00:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go back and read\NLangston Hughes's essay from 1929,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.60,0:00:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was,\N"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.10,0:00:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He opens it with a question from a young poet who approaches him and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.66,0:00:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't wanna be a black poet, I just wanna be a poet."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.04,0:00:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what does that mean, really?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.74,0:00:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his essay, he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.84,0:00:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what that artist is really saying is,\N"I wanna be a white artist."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.70,0:00:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they are not burdened by the problem of race.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.16,0:00:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To not be called a Black artist\Nseems to perform some kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.12,0:00:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liberating function in the minds of a lot of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.70,0:00:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So who needs to not know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.18,0:00:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or who needs to not think of you as a Black artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.76,0:00:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order for you to become a real artist?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting is the painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.56,0:01:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black painters have done all kinds of work all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.14,0:01:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not a question of whether they represent or whether they don't represent.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.45,0:01:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's the treatment of\Nwhichever of those forms they engage in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.72,0:01:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what determines the value of the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.00,0:01:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not whether you call them a Black artist or not.