I chose to show my understanding by explaining the message of inclusivity in the visual “It’s a bird” by Christian Cooper. In the first panel a woman is shouting at an African American man with shadows beside him and eyes closed. This symbolizes that to the woman every African American is the same, and judges the man on her past experiences with African Americans when the man did nothing. The color is used to show that the people standing beside the man are probably people the woman met in the past. The man’s gaze is showing that he doesn’t want to look at all the hate, and he doesn’t want to fight it physically. In the second panel, he ignores the woman and opens his eyes when he got ahead of her, showing that he wants to look ahead where the stereotypical racism is abolished. Christian Cooper’s message from this image is that some people still refuse to be inclusive to people of another race. It looks like both of them initially went to the hills to go sky gazing until they met each other, because you can see binocular straps on the woman too. If the woman was inclusive they could’ve joined up and enjoyed sky gazing together but the factor of race is getting in the way.
“It’s a Bird,” created by Christian Cooper
Courtesy of DC Comics (comic book)