Black Lives Matter
My presentation is about Black history and its figures throughout, African Americans have been transcending and crucial to the advancement of this country for years. Yet the unreasoned killing of some of these men have been tragic. Names like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the recent murder of George Floyd who was an innocent black man who was a pioneer in his community. I went around the city to take a picture with each of these murals to demonstrate just a piece of many black leaders we've had throughout history. One thing these black men have all had in common is that all of them were assassinated or executed in some way shape or form. I wanted to demonstrate in how in each of these men could have possibly changed the world one day but wasn't able to complete their mission because their lives were abruptly ended because of bigotry.
In each of these photos you will see me posing in a way that represented these men individual missions or how they were killed. The first photo you will see me making a fist with my hand up which means black power which is what Malcolm X stood for. X wanted the enhancement of black power and for us to be the superior race in his words "by any means necessary". In the MLK photo I have my hands up representing hands up don't shoot because MLK was assassinated by gunshot wound. He was a man of peace and wanted everyone to be equal, but unfortunately there were others who didn't feel the same and he was killed for his ideals. In the last picture u see me kneeling representing the way George Floyd was killed by police. Which was just another demonstration in a long line of police brutality, in protest Former quarterback Colin Kapernick took a knee in a protest to this exact thing. I wanted to do it for the representation and in support of his protest he started those years ago. I wasn’t inspired to do this by anything in the book this is just a belief I’ve wanted to express for a long time. Although, I got the idea from William L Pope’s intervention a users guide to the disruption of everyday life on pg. 63 when I saw this black man being a pioneer in a world where not many African Americans are successful. The words on pg. 45 really hit home when he said “They believe our slinging is just one tool in a large toolbox of resistance to the dominant paradigm”. It just reminded me of these mens and their message in the effect they will continue to have throughout history.
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