feature: ‘to my unborn son’ – the yale college black men’s union

Following the non indictments of police officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo for the murder of two unarmed black men, many questions have been raised as to the value placed on black lives in the United States, and more specifically that of the black man. All one has to do is read Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’ or watch Radio Raheem’s death in Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ to see the way black men have been continually eroticised and demonized in this country – especially those that are “big and black”. Now members of Yale College Black Men’s Union – an on-campus group with a goal of empowering young men of color – have created a new Tumblr campaign that seeks not only to empower the black men of today, but those of tomorrow. Entitled ‘To My Unborn Son’, the campaign features images of students and handwritten messages to their unborn sons. Check out some of the images, below (photographer: Eno Inyangete)

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor