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02.12.MMOW.YouthRally.WDC.29apr00 / Elvert Barnes
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| 説明 | Millennium March on Washington for Equality (MMOW) / Youth Rally at Dupont Circle, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 29 April 2000 by Elvert Barnes Protest PhotographyElvert Barnes April 2000 MMOW docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/April2000-MMOW__________... as I walked through the park snapping photos of youthful dancers some with fans in their hands and folks kissing and/or embracing each other I heard the voice of a young black gay man who when speaking from a stage in the northeast corner of the Circle spoke with a tongue that sounded, almost verbatum, just like me when I and was young black gay man.In his articulation which is an expression that many have used when they hear a black person speak ... and as many have told me ... 'like you'll white'..Like the young gay black man speaking I, too, believed that Martin Luther King Jr's dream had finally materialized. And though he, the young black gay man, said that things could be much better he spoke of a new society with multiculturalism and diversity (a term that I hate to hear) when little white girls and black girls and little white boys and black boys can walk hand in hand and over the mountain top._______________When writing my 2005 MLK Day SICK AND TIRED OF JOINING HANDS essay at dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/114405/index.php I'd again remember the young black gay man who spoke in Dupont Circle during the 29 April 2000 MMOW Youth Rally.If only he had known then what I had come to realize then ... |
| 撮影日 | 2000-04-29 00:00:14 |
| 撮影者 | Elvert Barnes , Silver Spring MD, USA |
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