Racism cannot be overcome without understanding it’s history and everyday impact on our lives. If that history is not actively and universally condemned—it will continue to be repeated, and the negative impact on today will be magnified. We must all universally condemn racism ourselves before we can ask others to.
“I view some of what’s going on in the political arena, this roller-coaster going back and forth, as just a natural process of cultural change happening. It’s not all going to happen in a neat all-at-once kind of way. It’s going to go this way and then that way and forward and backward, and then lurch left and right.”
To follow-up Natali’s brilliant story on the Shall Not Be Recognized project, I caught up with photographer Jeff Pearcy in his 3rd Ward studio… Arno: How did a self-proclaimed “straight old white guy” get involved in the Shall Not Be Recognized Project? Jeff: It really started when the law passed that forbade gay people to [...]