This photo represents the relationship between race and politics. The photo is of the statue of Oscar Robertson on campus near the Linder Center. Roberston struggled from poverty and racism, growing up in a segregated housing project. Through hard work and dedication, Roberston became an outstanding basketball player, and was a member of the 1960 Gold Medal Olympic basketball team. He also played in the NBA after leading UC to many victories.

The statue of Oscar was important to us to show the abilities of people to overcome racism and politics in the decades of the past. It's admiring and encouraging to walk past The statue while we're on the way to our classes to get our education, thinking that Oscar had to fight to get his own education. The image of Oscar, with Cincinnati's campus showing behind it is a good showing of how we have grown as a society. I think we can all agree that we still have work to be done to rid the issues of social injustice and poverty as well, but seeing the progress that we have made since Oscar played basketball for our school is amazing. Relating to the texts of Craft and even Uncle Tom's Cabin, the photo is a good representation of what America is capable of, and I believe a selection of characters from those stories would be very proud of Oscar, and all of the fans of Oscar Robertson today.