The central idea of Toure’s, The Rescuer, is to bring to light how blacks are portrayed as an entire group rather then just individuals and to show the world how every black person is special and unique. The central idea of Titus Kaphar’s TED Talk is to get the world to focus on, as he describes, “amending” artistic history to focus equally on the lives of minorities as well as the lives of whites.
The central idea of both are very similar. The ideas are similar in that they both attempt to shine light on the issue of the portrayal of minorities (specifically blacks).
The central idea of both are different in that the passage, The Rescuer, Toure places more emphasis on how all blacks are grouped together and portrayed as “fearsome beast” and “criminalblackman”. Meanwhile Titus Kaphar in his TED Talk doesn’t focus specifically on stereotyping but on the issue that history seems to skim by the issues faced by minorities and only talks about entire groups rather then individuals.
I personally believe that Toure’s, The Rescuer, is more effective. I find it to be more effective because its more straightforward than the TED Talk. I feel that in Titus Kaphar’s TED Talk was one of those things where he tried to connect his example and his main idea but it wasn’t really the best example.
P.S I’m not sure if what I mentioned in my last sentence about Titus Kaphar’s TED Talk is understandable.