The Black Panther In James Mcbride's The Father Of Water

Do you think colors matter in life? Can lies be covering all time, or it's better to say the truth? Why different races don’t get along with each other. In the world we see how every race has their own space and culture. Because of that we don’t interact with different people from us. This is some reason why we don’t get along with differents culture.

In the COLOR OF WATER, at the beginning of chapter 4 we see James McBride asking many questions to his mother Ruth. what were those questions that James was asking for his mom? When James was little he start asking questions why he was different from his mother Ruth. James starts asking to his sibling if they know why he was different from his mother. James brother Richi told him that it doesn’t matter why he is different.

The other siblings of James start saying that he was adopted. “Something inside me, an ache I had, like a constant itch that got bigger and bigger and bigger as I grew” James become convinced that he really is adopted as he grow up. It means that when he was little he start feeling different to his family and those feeling through the years were getting more and more interesting for him. James siblings was’t their faults why james was feeling that.
In the book we see that in chapter 4 James punching a panther child, because he was scared of the black panther.

James thought that the black panther was going to do something to his mother Ruth. People who had read the book has question herself why they include the black panther in the book. What role does it play the Panthers in James Story. “ I understand now, understand how her christian principles and trust in God kept her going through all her life’s battles, but as a boy, my faith was not strong.” When James Punched the black panthers kid his reaction was showing many things, towards his native race and what he know and see about the black panthers in the new. The news were saying that Black panthers were bad people and that they hate white people. James mixed race upbringing leads to conflicted about the Civil rights movement and racial justice. While on the one hand James is proud of his blackness, and thinks of black panthers as intrinsically cool. He has also absorbed white cultural concerns that black people are a threat. Therefore, although he is excited by civil right gains by black people, he naively worries that his mother, a white woman, is at risk from militant black

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James was scared of the black panthers because of all the things he know and see in the news. James mom Ruth she know how black panthers were with other people. Ruth knew how the Black Panthers were. She did not want her son James to interact with them or with black people. One of the things that we can see that she did, was when she decided to put her son James to a school of white people so that James could have a better education and interact more with the people of white and that would also help James. to have more friends.Ruth thought her son was going to be better in a white school, and he was not going to have problems. but what she did not know was that that school or that education was going to affect James because his race.
When James went to school he told his mother that “ I preferred the black side”, not the white people side, “I wished that Mommy had sent me to black schools like my friends instead I was stuck at that white school with white classmates who were convinced I could dance like James Brown. I think that James was Frustrated because his were so annoying with him. James friends were bullying him in two ways, One way was that they were trying to get him to dance because they already knew that James could not dance like James Brown, it was just to ridicule him in front of the whole class. And the other way was because he was of different race, and his friends wanted to make him feel less. James tried to tell them that he could not dance and they did not understand. “ I tried to explain to them that I couldn’t dance. I have been the worst dancers that God has ever put upon this earth” James said. Weeks later James did a talent show at school, where he found his talent and showed it in front of the class. Thanks to that, James felt happy because he had pleased them with his talent. “They went wild, but even as I sat down with theirs applause ringing in my ears, with laughter on my face, happy to feel accepted, to be part of them, knowing I had pleased them.” One thing that shows us this quote is that race does not matter in this world, as long as you are yourself and demonstrate your talents to people, not to unlearn them but to let them see and know what you are capable of doing, being different from them. You can stop feeling different to them and live in different environments to you, so you can learn more than you already know.
At my age I try to understand why James has that attitude in the book just because he finds out that he is adopted. When I will be older and when I will have childrens, and also my own life. So I will have a different point of view to James attitude in the book. As I grow up i will have experiences and challenges that I need to solve and never give up. At my age now have many questions like James without answers and there are some things that do not understand about my life family. But through the years I will be having those answers to my questions that I have. As James changed his actitud through the years and at the end of the book he got a different perspective of his mom Ruth and race. At the end of the book James understands his mother why she had hidden the truth and why she had never told him. Ruth loved James and did not want him to suffer with the truth. My perspective of now will change during the years, when I will be discovering new things. Question, Different people, and race is a combination of Good and bad things, and many problems that you face, and there are specific people that has those problems because they are the only ones that will supported and they never will give up without getting the answers to their questions.
Answering my thesis Statement, Why different races don’t get along with each other? I think that it depends on people perspectives that they have with different race. Races don’t get along with each other not because they are different races, is because people have different perspective towards other. Color don’t matter in life, we have one example with Ruth a white woman who adopted a black kid. As Ruth say “God is the color of water.” that means that water doesn’t have color so God don’t make difference with us. God loves all people that there are in the world, because we are their sons,(childs ).