And this is- and this is how the same boy.. draws himself

Let’s take- let’s take these drawings

No matter what a child draws he’s really picturing himself

Ask a secure child to draw a tree, and he’s likely to draw a bountiful spreading tree

A black child drew this tree

Cut off in it’s growth stark, bare, ungratified

The faceless beings suggest that these youngsters, not only feel themselves to be less then they might be

The don’t even feel themselves to be

The black child who is forced to live in a hostile world, may disappear in self-defense

He drifts through live feeling like a shadow, he stops caring and he stops trying

And this is how the same boy.. draws himself