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The photos were displayed on the Westside Beltline Trail off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard before someone took them down.
The photographer was working on a project with a program called Canine Cell Mates that uses dogs to help prisoners. The director tells Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes the photos weren't intended to offend or disrespect anyone but without any context, the photos could be misunderstood.
An Atlanta resident who walks the part of the beltline where the photos were located told Fernandes he wondered why all the prisoners depicted in the images were black.
Just WOW...
I just now realize one thing. It's wrong to be black. It's ugly to be back. Black is bad.
That white guy they interviewed , the first thing he saw was Black and it clouded everything. He didn't see the dogs in the picture. He didn't stop to think....wow...what a nice program to have dogs rehabilitate prisoners. What a wonderful program.
Instead he thought of race right away. People see black and they see it as a bad thing. They can't see the possessive in anything. Life is offensive, being black is offensive. Such a shame.
Well the info on who is in the program would help. It would have taken 1 more panel with a paragraph on the program and who participates. However, I don't understand the immediate thought that it is racist because of who is in the pictures. But I am not programmed to seek out such things either.
If the prison make-up is something significantly different than 90-10, then, sure, it could be seen as being racist. These are men who are working to being rehabilitated; my guess is that this program is for the men who have been good citizens in prison. In that sort of way, it shouldn't be seen as that big of a negative.
If the prison make-up is something significantly different than 90-10, then, sure, it could be seen as being racist. These are men who are working to being rehabilitated; my guess is that this program is for the men who have been good citizens in prison. In that sort of way, it shouldn't be seen as that big of a negative.
It would require to think. Its easier to blame everthing on racsim. Even if it was another poster explaining the posters, people would still just see black.
It would require to think. Its easier to blame everthing on racsim. Even if it was another poster explaining the posters, people would still just see black.
That's because these days that works on business and local governments.
Tell them they are being racist and they scramble to remove it, change it, cover it and in one case change the name of a national holiday.
It's a shame because this is such a wonderful program. The connection between these men and the dogs they work with is real and healing to both as is evidenced by the pictures.
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