Neal is calling for type of writing that liberates the black man. He wants a completely detached type of writing. Detached from the white man in all sense of the word; detached from what he thought was beautiful; detached from what he was told were his superiors. You can’t make any type of difference within a system which limits and oppresses you. The type of writing is calling for type of people who are free and strong.
Neal see’s the art apart of the whole social African- American movement. It’s all intertwined and very much related to one another. It targets people of mass audience as well, especially though theater. It’s been misconstrued to be anything less than political or for the fight for rights which could also be ethical. That’s just another way to keep the oppressed by misleading their beliefs, “The Black Arts Movement believes that your ethics and your aesthetics are one. That the contradiction between ethics and aesthetics in western society is symptomatic of a dying culture. “ Larry Neal
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