The following video is a compilation of three different No Kings marches in sub/urban NJ. There was a lot of Internet chatter about the march not being diverse, Black women were staying home, and blah blah…I thought this was interesting, as I saw a diverse group of people with a diversity of objectives and ideas. It reminds me of black-and-white pictures from the turn of the 20th century that give hints that racial segregation wasn’t always the norm in urban America. It was designed and manufactured. You’ll see two Black children posed and photographed, and then in the background, you’ll see Asian, Latino, and white children all playing together, and it’s 1906. Why did they shoot it that way? Why do people do what they do and who gets to edit, describe, and present the US story?
“So hypersegregation didn’t directly follow the emancipation?”
“No, Johnny, it did not.”
You wonder if the stories presented by the sanctioned press and amplified by the sanctioned voices are completely accurate. The binary is not real, not in any part of life.
