Thursday, December 18, 2014

The touching hug photo from Ferguson protests is a blatant lie | Jonathan Jones

"Liking this picture as a definitive image of America’s race crisis is the equivalent of locking yourself in and turning up the volume to weep at Frozen while the streets are burning outside. Which is exactly what white Americans apparently want to do. Truth is a flimsy thing. It can be destroyed by a hug."
Stas Rumpleminz 
Jonathan Jones: Framing the debate: It’s absurd that a nation’s new, yet old, encounter with its most destructive division can be summed up by this soppy...
theguardian.com|By Jonathan Jones


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