Reading

Mcgill writes a book to help the black community but once I read the book and I seen the reaction of other people in the casa program many people don't read in the black community. McGill creates a guide on how people can be empowered in the black community and how they can not go down his path but many people won't get that due to them not reading the book. People need to be able to read to retain knowledge and to help themselves grow as people and a race blacks need to be able to read and to empower themselves. I think every black person should read at least one book by wilderson and one by Baldwin and everyone in the black and brown body should read pedagogy of the oppressed as a guide to help them grow as a people and fight whiteness. People will be able to be educated and to not mess with other blacks and take them down. Many people take the crab in the bucked analogy to heart and this prevents blacks to help eachother. This is what's wrong with the black body we're not well read and we don't help eachother survive.

Stereotypes

Though I have enjoyed reading Dear Marcus, I believe that telling his story was more of a way for him to appease his pain rather than to be uplifting. Throughout the majority of the story, Jerome is very loathe some and despondent. This is very understandable due to his condition. The fact that he named the man who crippled him spoke volumes to me. He assumed that the man who shot him was black. Black on black crime undoubtedly exists but the media shows us too many examples of black people harming one another, instead of showing our many shades of positivity. In my mind this is done deliberately. I believe that Jerome and maybe even Marcus were oblivious victims of post hypnotic suggestion. They saw the same themes reiterated constantly and once those ideas become integrated into our psyche it begins to shape and affect how we think. Jerome is a prime example of a programmed individual who was predisposed to assume the worst of his people.

Black family

McGill displays the black family dynamic and shows the honest family that he has and how if reflects across most of black America. Black Americans don't have closely knit Families and many suffer and lack a father figure. Jerome's mother had Jerome when she was 17 and this wasn't the greatest foundation for success and this prevented Jerome to live in an ideal environment where he wouldn't suffer from the strife of life in a bad environment. McGill struggled but after his injury he was able to bring him self up and be resilient McGill as able to write this book to help blacks not life in his situation and hopefully people won't have this poor family dynamic McGill writes to prevent the family dynamic

Duality of spectacular blackness

McGill displays black suffering and also spectacular blackness. McGill spectacularizes blackness and shows the suffering of blackness to make readers show that suffering is the only way that blacks exist in the dark netherworld. The suffering is made a spectacle in the book which makes readers see how blacks suffer and hurt eachother. This can be seen in two ways one, we can grow from this and stop being a spectacle for suffering or we are made a spectacle to whites and they are seen bad by other races

McGill displays black netherworld

McGill creates a wonderful vizualization of the internalized struggles of the ack body and displays how people suffer in the black netherworld. Like the dark netherworld is never brought up in conversation and this book allows readers to visualize the struggles of black people in America. This book can empower readers to not make the mistakes of McGill and the characters and to avoid their paths. Escaping the dark netherworld is an integral part for black recovery