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[bendersama]
"Justice For Trayvon"
The title rang out in my head all week, this week. I've tried to "ostrich" myself from this topic of Trayvon Martin, saying "It happened in Florida, it was between a Latino and an African America, and media is just trying to shake the cage of racial tensions". I really can't use those excuses anymore.
1. This no longer uses a "Flordia thing" as an excuse as it has happened now as reported in Alabama**, and Illinois**, Lord only knows where this will spread.
2. Going back to the specific races, the man in Alabama** was...white?! Jokingly I have to ask: Hey black community what the hell have whites done to you recently, now?! Seriously though, this is undirected anger, built up by the "mainstream media", on a level of Rodney King!
3. So who helps dose or stoke this fire...? The celebrities*** and activists*** help beat the race drums of war inciting anger.
Look, what was done was messed up. I'm not saying Zimmerman is innocent, and I'm not saying Trayvon is without guilt - I'm saying that without the media spin, we have next to no facts on the case. One thing I can agree with Spike Lee on; when he finally knew his place he shut up until the trial started stating "Justice In Court". Is it too little too late? I can't say. We are all sitting on a powder keg and the African Americans wanting "Justice for Trayvon" are not only horrid examples of their race, prolonging the stigmas of "unlearned or misinformed angry black" stereotype. IF this picture spreads anywhere, if this entry goes "viral" if there's one message I ask all races, it's this:
This photo represents the harsh "justice" done to African Americans from civil war times, for nearly any crime, up to even the 20th century, in effigy of hatred. It represents both a time that I truly feel shame as a Caucasian and a human being.
Use this as a point of reference in efforts to never repeat the past, on ANY race, gender, religion, or creed, and move forward from this ugly page of the past. Please, please, please, realize that any race undisciplined, mislead, and filled with hate, is one lynch away from doing what the KKK did. Let that sink in for just a bit before anybody starts mugging, robbing, and looting in "Trayvon's name".
Swing by my website:
Check out my Blog on Thursdays
and join me on social media sites
Add me as a Contact on Flickr
Like Bendersama Photography's Facebook Page: Here
Check me out on Instagram: @bendersamaphoto
***Spike Lee***
STROBIST INFORMATION:
ISO:50
f/:5.6
SHUTTER: 1/100
FOCUS: Manual
CAMERA: Canon EOS 5D w/
a 50mm f/1.8 mk I lens
on GorillaPod "Focus"
TRIGGERING: a Vivitar 285HV ("M" of Full Power setting)
w/ attached homemade snoot (two TAZO tea tins taped and sprayed matte black)
on a Manfrotto light stand. Wireless system used was a CowboyStudio NPT-04, hotshoed for both.
PLACEMENT: Doll "model" center-left of camera
Tree/gobo just right (out of frame)
Flash strobe 3ft away from tree/gobo
Vivitar 285 HV was behind-right of camera
"Justice For Trayvon"
The title rang out in my head all week, this week. I've tried to "ostrich" myself from this topic of Trayvon Martin, saying "It happened in Florida, it was between a Latino and an African America, and media is just trying to shake the cage of racial tensions". I really can't use those excuses anymore.
1. This no longer uses a "Flordia thing" as an excuse as it has happened now as reported in Alabama**, and Illinois**, Lord only knows where this will spread.
2. Going back to the specific races, the man in Alabama** was...white?! Jokingly I have to ask: Hey black community what the hell have whites done to you recently, now?! Seriously though, this is undirected anger, built up by the "mainstream media", on a level of Rodney King!
3. So who helps dose or stoke this fire...? The celebrities*** and activists*** help beat the race drums of war inciting anger.
Look, what was done was messed up. I'm not saying Zimmerman is innocent, and I'm not saying Trayvon is without guilt - I'm saying that without the media spin, we have next to no facts on the case. One thing I can agree with Spike Lee on; when he finally knew his place he shut up until the trial started stating "Justice In Court". Is it too little too late? I can't say. We are all sitting on a powder keg and the African Americans wanting "Justice for Trayvon" are not only horrid examples of their race, prolonging the stigmas of "unlearned or misinformed angry black" stereotype. IF this picture spreads anywhere, if this entry goes "viral" if there's one message I ask all races, it's this:
This photo represents the harsh "justice" done to African Americans from civil war times, for nearly any crime, up to even the 20th century, in effigy of hatred. It represents both a time that I truly feel shame as a Caucasian and a human being.
Use this as a point of reference in efforts to never repeat the past, on ANY race, gender, religion, or creed, and move forward from this ugly page of the past. Please, please, please, realize that any race undisciplined, mislead, and filled with hate, is one lynch away from doing what the KKK did. Let that sink in for just a bit before anybody starts mugging, robbing, and looting in "Trayvon's name".
Swing by my website:
Check out my Blog on Thursdays
and join me on social media sites
Add me as a Contact on Flickr
Like Bendersama Photography's Facebook Page: Here
Check me out on Instagram: @bendersamaphoto
***Spike Lee***
STROBIST INFORMATION:
ISO:50
f/:5.6
SHUTTER: 1/100
FOCUS: Manual
CAMERA: Canon EOS 5D w/
a 50mm f/1.8 mk I lens
on GorillaPod "Focus"
TRIGGERING: a Vivitar 285HV ("M" of Full Power setting)
w/ attached homemade snoot (two TAZO tea tins taped and sprayed matte black)
on a Manfrotto light stand. Wireless system used was a CowboyStudio NPT-04, hotshoed for both.
PLACEMENT: Doll "model" center-left of camera
Tree/gobo just right (out of frame)
Flash strobe 3ft away from tree/gobo
Vivitar 285 HV was behind-right of camera