Alain Locke's Philosophy

Alain Locke means that the days of the old African-Americans is over such as slavery and the times after that.He says this to show the African-American community and the rest of society that African-Americans have moved on from those days and it is time for them as a community to rise up and become a new people. Locke wants them to realize that there is more to the African-American population than the U.S. gives them credit for. He wants them to emerge a New Negro; a negro who didn't care to the whims and rules of the white community. This New Negro would realize his/her potential and take it upon themselves to become better than what white community expected of them. Locke wanted to show that the days of oppression and the subservient ways to the white community are long gone and that the time of black equality is here and now.