I just got home. I went to work a little while ago, but not to work, just to get something to drink. Walking around aimlessly, sipping on soy chai, looking at books and such.
In the photography section I saw this book, filled with old grainy black and white photos of lynchings. A lot of the pics were taken in the South, being that the South is famous for that sort of thing. Also, from what I gathered, curiously flipping through the pages, it's mainly (but not all) pictures of Black/African-American people hanging from trees. I started to wonder how this book got put on display... I'm all about shock value, as much as the next person (maybe moreso), but come on... No one puts a book like that, on the featured display shelf, unless they're trying to say something without actually saying anything... Some idiot Nazi military guy, possibly?
It is really an interesting book though, any and all racist overtones aside. It's quite illuminating, in a historical sense. It lets people kinda see how things apparently used to be, not only in the south, but all across this fine country, how fucking stupid our forefathers were, and apparently, still are. I'm still curious as to who in the store, if it was someone in the store, put it out on the display shelf... I would figure that they'd put it on the regular shelf, stuffed into obscurity with Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe, side-by-side with the "Best of National Geographic"...
On a lighter note... I'd love to get my hands on a copy of this book. I saw it while I was in Richmond, but the copy they had was all torn and fucked-up, and... If I'm paying more than 20 dollars for a book, I'd like it to be in pristine condition...
Anyway, see ya.
I'll leave you with a pic of Bootsy Collins, because... Well... Bootsy is the shit, simply put.
In the photography section I saw this book, filled with old grainy black and white photos of lynchings. A lot of the pics were taken in the South, being that the South is famous for that sort of thing. Also, from what I gathered, curiously flipping through the pages, it's mainly (but not all) pictures of Black/African-American people hanging from trees. I started to wonder how this book got put on display... I'm all about shock value, as much as the next person (maybe moreso), but come on... No one puts a book like that, on the featured display shelf, unless they're trying to say something without actually saying anything... Some idiot Nazi military guy, possibly?
It is really an interesting book though, any and all racist overtones aside. It's quite illuminating, in a historical sense. It lets people kinda see how things apparently used to be, not only in the south, but all across this fine country, how fucking stupid our forefathers were, and apparently, still are. I'm still curious as to who in the store, if it was someone in the store, put it out on the display shelf... I would figure that they'd put it on the regular shelf, stuffed into obscurity with Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe, side-by-side with the "Best of National Geographic"...
On a lighter note... I'd love to get my hands on a copy of this book. I saw it while I was in Richmond, but the copy they had was all torn and fucked-up, and... If I'm paying more than 20 dollars for a book, I'd like it to be in pristine condition...
Anyway, see ya.
I'll leave you with a pic of Bootsy Collins, because... Well... Bootsy is the shit, simply put.
Disregard--for a second I thought I was going through one of those "what are the odds of us knowing the same people" situations, but it's not so.
[Edited on Oct 25, 2005 10:24PM]
Yeah, no kidding!