Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Nice (Acid House)


If only America hasn't been so damned nice,...

This is a photo of Jimmy Brock, the manager of St. Augustine, Florida's former Monson Motor Lodge, pouring acid in the water as black people swam, in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been previously arrested for trespassing in it's segregated restaurant. “Jimmy kind of caught the brunt of it. He was a nice guy.” said Eddy Mussallem, a longtime friend and someone who knows nice - according to white American standards.

TMR thinks we can almost predict the behavior of "nice" white Americans, even today, by how each state felt about slavery. Florida, seen here, was a major slave state, so major niceness. Texas - where a nice police officer just resigned for threatening evil black children - it was one of the nicest slave states in the union, just ask Mexico. 

So, see? Try studying American slavery, then and now, and you, too, can discover how this place really works:

I swear, you'll find some of the nicest stories you will ever hear in your life,...

Friday, May 1, 2015

Lloyd Francis On "Criminal Cops Caught On Camera"


Smile!

I could tell you cop stories, sure, but Lloyd Francis is A) also black B) a personal friend C) a photojournalist - that's his work above - and D) someone with professional access; so why listen to me when he's used Medium to jot down his thoughts on American police abuse? I can tell you street stories later: 

Lloyd's is a much more historically-informed read, told from an I-was-always-watching perspective. 

Because - whether you like it or not now - that's what my boy was paid to do,...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Anderson Cooper Has Better Morals Than Althouse


The best statement on feminism I could find 

Unlike white's blogging princess, manipulation and exploitation don't seem to be the reporter's racket: 


Althouse would've done it in a minute:

As long as it made her "happy",....