I don't want to be all "told you so" but this is a sobering look at that "iconic" photograph of the Black woman surrounded by Nazis on a train.
Everyone lost their minds over how evocative the image was and how it summed up whatever it summed up; very few people considered the experience of the woman we made into an involuntary symbol of our chin-stroking self-satisfaction.
https://www.notus.org/metro/viral-metro-photo-patriot-front-bernita-bowlding
#news #photography #whitesupremacy #BlackMastodon
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