It is important to learn about the Harlem Renaissance because; it is a very influential piece of history. It marked the beginning of black power, and woman’s power. It is important to understand the attitudes towards culture and heritage. Only when we truly understand something it is then that we can fix it.
One would think that we are completely removed from the issue of race. However, lately in the news we are compelled to listen to stories that involve a teacher hanging noose around a student’s neck, or at an Ivy League school such as Columbia a noose is hung on the door of African American professor.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is still around. It still threatens the non-Christian and non Eurocentric people of the modern world. Like during the Harlem Renaissance people still live in fear of this psychotic power. A modern example would be the movie “A Time to kill” which was originally a book. The movie portrays race relations in the south during modern times. While watching this movie, I had to think about the time period. I kept thinking that it was done in the old Jim Crow south, however, my friends quickly pointed out that the cars are around the 1990’s. The movie was produced in 1996. Therefore much of our country is still battling the issues that related to the Harlem renaissance. Who knows, perhaps in another 40 years, there will be no race relations, nobody will be judged by the color of their skin, or their religious beliefs. Only time can tell.