I heard the author of the attached, Imani Perry, interviewed last night. This is a wonderful article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/racism-terrible-blackness-not/613039/
The occupier went real low, even for him. He posted on FB and Twitter a manipulated video of 2 toddlers, one black and one white, hugging. The original video is very sweet and has been seen on social media for about a year. now I have seen it numerous times. The manipulated one, is pretty bad, racist and also attacks CNN. The parents of one of the toddlers was very upset and got FB to delete the video. Twitter still has it up but with a warning.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/business/trump-video-twitter-manipulated-media/index.html
Way low using children without parental knowledge or permission even without the photo shopping falsehood etc.
Besides the photo shopping of false accreditation to CNN blame I believe that violates a lot of online use of photo things if the kids arent your own because of their age)
I know that stored online photos way back when (before what we have now even existedin current form) made those of us with blogs or websites click accept when we signed away our rights to photos we took (and thought we owned the rights to) used/posted and one was used on a billboard in Australia without asking permission of a teen. Bit of a shock seeing that I'd imagine and of course no financial remuneration)
But now we all think we have rights to our images/videos. And hopefully we do!
But yes. Tacky Tacky pass the fake news and then the fake CNN logo blame as the "buck" never stopping where it belongs.
Such a pass the buck "philaundering".
Oh my we really need to center, focus and visualize much better images for this nation/our world. The "Black Lives Matter" movement itself deserves so much more and better from all of us in every way.
If you only read ONE article regarding racism and people who are black, read this one.
It is written by 12 year old Lonnie Chavis who is a brilliant young actor on the Emmy award winning show This Is Us. He plays young Randall on the show and he is a fantastic actor. Why should you read what he wrote? I might be able to tell, you once I get the tears out of my eyes. I dare you to look at life the same way again after you read his words.
That article had me in tears. I can't imagine the feeling because it's so scary. I watch "This is Us" all the time - one of my favorite TV shows - ever. The acting and story lines are so "real" and get you to feel like you are in the shoes of the person that is in the scene. They tackle so much on the show.
Thanks for posting that article.
ps: I'm praying for the fires in your state too.
@lovendures, that was a powerfully moving article. Thank you for sharing it.
Some of you may have already seen this attached video. Last week a Baton Rouge school board meeting was held to discuss changing the name of a local high school from Robert E. Lee. In the video local resident and activist Gary Chambers is confronting one of the school board member.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4E0028GkDc
i think it is also one of my all time favorite shows too. The writing is superb and so are the actors. I wonder how they will address race issues this season especially in the younger actors story lines? They have done a excellent job so far but there is so much more they can do. The also have the ability of doing it without sounding preachy or unauthentic. Each story they choose to tell is a chance to learn about perspective. My girls took classical ballet for years and I so felt young Beth’s heartache about wanting to be in a classical ballet company and the pressure she felt.
Thank you for remembering AZ with the fires. A new one started in our state yesterday. This one is only 25 minutes from my home and has been filling the sky with a definite layer of smoke. They are pulling firefighters off the largest fire ( over 175,000 acres) to fight this smaller one probably because it is near a lot more homes.
Not my words, from someone I don't know named Francis Maxwell (Twitter):
Let's paint a picture. Say you're Jewish, walking in Germany & see a statue of Hitler. You're upset & want it torn down. Only for someone to say 'how dare you? My ancestor was a Nazi, this is my heritage!'
Crazy right? Well this is a reality for black people everyday in America.
@Allyn - tagging you because this speaks to the issue we discussed (elsewhere) about confederate flags in modern day cemeteries. So much more succinctly than I put it, but this is it in a nutshell.
I've watched that Chambers video multiple times. I saw him interviewed on MSNBC. I'm not surprised that the Baton Rouge Board member wouldn't willingly resign. This morning I heard that the Mad King intends to issue an executive order to protect these statues from destruction. T. said he's looking for long-term jail sentences for these "vandals, hoodlums and anarchists" who attempt to take down the statues. So statues deserve an executive order of protection, but black lives don't? Not that T's response surprises me; he flaunts his racism like a badge of honor. I got so damn mad that I had to watch the Chambers video again!