RE: I have a dream

[mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Well unless you have some age on you, and grew up in the right spots, you wouldn't understand.  I grew up right in the middle of it, and this scene makes perfect sense.  Did you know that in the deep south in the 60s, the black people in this scene instead of talking to white people would have been forced to eat in a separate part of the business IF they were served at all?  There were separate bathrooms, water fountains, parks and schools.   More likely the people would have been arrested, and the whites that tolerate such a conversation shunned.  Some might have been beaten.

Yet such a photograph could easily be found in the same places where no blacks allowed signs were found so many years ago.  Not perfect, but so much progress has been made its not even comparable.  Places where it once was at its worst, have now found a way to live together in a way that is a free as any where in the country.

Though those times are long gone, those that forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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Subject: RE: I have a dream
From: Pini Vollach <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, August 21, 2010 4:37 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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I’m not American but I am familiar with M.L.K phrase: “I have a dream”.

The question is why is this image represent this phrase?

( Presence of black people is not enough, IMHO )

 

Pini

 

 

 

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Subject: I have a dream

 

Thanks to all for taking the time to review this weeks forum. I should have realized that some of our members are not from the States. I have a dream is a famous Quote from Martin Luther Kings Speech during the beginning of the civil rights movement in America.

David Small