Can Stan Banos please explain
Written by duckrabbitHow on earth we got from this as a form of meaningful protest:
To this:
For additional homework watch this video. Towards the end you can educate yourself about how ‘the civil rights movement in the sixties was bought about by a group of whites, claiming equality with the blacks and giving them that equal stage, giving them an opportunity to speak.‘
Nothing to do with the picture at the top, or Martin Luther King, Malcolm X or Rosa Parks?
Stan, I’ll be publishing your response. Don’t strain yourself and if you need more inspiration this explains everything.
Honest.
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Discussion (11 Comments)
In New York the ICP is currently hosting a fantastic exhibition on the civil rights era. Shows up this I am equal thing as the absolute travesty it is.
There’s an online resource for the exhibit here. http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/foralltheworld/
PS: Jason Beckett makes me believe in the idea that we are in fact not all equal, at least in the intelligence department.
Tom, thanks for that.
People should also be aware of some of the amazing community outreach work that ICP get on with.
All things bein equal, that’s a lot of dandruff flying off his backlit head
Trent, that’s ‘world class photography’!
I AM..not using Head&Shoulders shampoo.
Explain? The best I could manage was involuntary laughter listening to that radio twit blather endlessly about that which he knows nothing about, the more than appropriate Talk Is Cheap logo conveniently beside him. And there really was no end to his non stop, feel good, revisionist prattle. I couldn’t help but think back to when Mario Van Peebles recounted how he was trying to sell his film vision of the Black Panthers to the customary Hollywood big wigs. He finally got someone interested in backing it, except in this version, the battered, defeated Panthers would be taken in by a white high school teacher who in turn would inspire, motivate and nurse them back to health to once again take on the powers that be. That’s the movie that fortunately, never got made (although the very perversity in me sure wishes that alternate universe version was somehow actually available).
This so called “project” is so very wrong in each and every way. First off, it truly hurts the eyes- and that, in and of itself is inexcusable. This is vomit inducing imagery at an unprecedented level. Offensive, in your face, third rate commercial portraiture from a “world famous photographer” that offers nothing more than a blatant celebration of the self satisfying, self gratifying, narcissistic American self. As a result, they effectively squander any possible hope of reaching out to anyone for anything approaching mature, insightful dialogue on an adult level. Of course, that was never the intention here. And so, perhaps it does, in fact, stand a chance of achieving it’s original goal- reducing everything including world peace, equality and brotherly love to a happy face and a logo.
Ahhh… and then to that other photo- another age, another mindset, another reality. Everyone on that winners’ podium (and their families) received death threats because of that image. I was a mere prepubescent when I saw Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists on TV, and not being able to get the full implications of their actions at that age, I still remember getting the gist right down to the bone. Someone finally had the guts to stand up, and at their greatest moment, share with us not the delusion of their grandeur, but the reality of what they were- proud, beat down, and undefeated. Immediately suspended from the Olympic team, the commercial endorsements and lucrative financial opportunities that accompany sport celebrity were nowhere to follow, chastised by the masses as was a fellow athlete once named Cassius Marcellus Clay. Compare their lives and actions to our one note, modern day, corporate sport icons: Jordan, Woods and King James Lebron.
As Malcolm X once told us, “The price of freedom is death.” You don’t get to taste it, unless you’re willing to risk it. Fame, celebrity and fortune are considerably easier.
Talk is cheap indeed… how to say nothing in 9mns brilliantly demonstrated here. You are equal, oh yeah? Equal to what? Equal in wanting to have your face made up and your picture taken by a good photographer so you can rejoice in how good you look? The intention is probably good but isn’t Hell paved with good intentions?
Wow, incredible. Get the tapescript up – did I remember him saying let’s take race, gender, sexuality and race out of the equation.
And what was the bit about all the Germans like Oskar Schindler standing up to the Nazis and saying Hey, you can’t treat those guys like that. Did I remember that right or am I just making it up. Or is he just making it up.
I am Spartacus!
Bad photography in the service of sentimental tripe. The only part of this I like is the moment of inadvertent comedy provided by the overwrought woman in the second video.
Yeah … it was like she was having some religious ephinpy .