Reflection #1 Essay #1 “On Evaluating Black Privilege”

The poem contributes greatly to an understanding of the experience of the African American in America. The poem by crystal valentines is interesting to me as it helps me in understanding the black privilege that is considered to be the huge elephant. This implies that the lives of the African American have been characterized with a lot of challenges. The easiest part of the story was evaluating. This is because it is easy to relate to. The challenges and the discrimination faced by the African American is something that I have witnessed. It is interesting as it is an eye opener of the struggles they go to and what they have to do in order to fit in. the poem helped me in developing my literary analytical skills in order to come up with the deeper meaning in the poem.  I was able to unveil the significant of the story.

However there were challenges in analyzing the poem. The most difficult thing was understanding some of the vocabulary used in the poem. The poem sentences had more meaning that had deeper meaning that was not easy to identify. This slowed down my analysis of the problem as I had to check on the meaning of the vocabulary and assess whether they were giving the right meaning in the context used.

The teacher feedback was of great importance as it helped me overcome the frustrations I had especially with the issue of deriving the right meaning for the poem. First the teacher required me to add definition of the words by a way of explaining them. I further provided background information from other sources analyzing the poem in order to help me gain a full understanding of the poem. I was able to see how the African American face the racial inequality from the slave trade that happened many years ago is still felt to date. I credit the poem to be of great importance as it has helped me in literature skills as well as analyzing it to gain the better understanding of the discrimination of the African American