my name is Andre Leon gray I am artisan
area now 19 and I live in raleigh we
were looking at a basically a tar
painting on canvas which is a portrait
of Toussaint L'Ouverture he was the
haitian revolutionary leader who helped
establish the first black nation in the
Western Hemisphere below that is a baton
chair he wiII Newton of the Black
Panthers famously opposed in four poster
holding a rifle and a spear and below
that is a empty speaker box which a
speaker box is a least back when I was
growing up in 80s and 90s that were put
in the back of a automobile and you know
you were sitting at home in the
neighborhood and all of a sudden your
windows start rattling because this
booming sound is hitting your you know
the house the boxing gloves on the
rattan chair were actually they're not
professional gloves and more like the
training you've south glove so in
essence it symbolizes the from
generation to generation to the fight
against oppression that happens and so
using those training gloves now is more
like the idea of that the youth are
still fighting for equal human rights
anything about the whole protests in
Ferguson and the whole idea of police
brutality against black men nowadays
then certain people starting to wake up
in a certain sense because certain
things are happening that you can't not
avoid knowing about