Black men have been gunned down and dying under extremely conspicuous circumstances the past year or so, with most of the police officers being exonerated by the same system and same-minded people as the officers who shot the unarmed men.
Organizers of the 11th annual Atlanta Greek Picnic interrupted the festive atmosphere at Morris Brown College on the Atlanta University Center and ordered a pause in order to memorialize the man fallen black men and women and to remind the attendees that the issue of police brutality is as real an issue as ever before.
For a moment of silence, the assembled multitude adopted the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” pose popularized during the sickening and grotesque string of unarmed black men being shot to death — evoking such names as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — or killed while in police custody, as in the case of Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y. and Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
I was particularly struck by the woman in the white stop and sunglasses hoisted atop her head. Her eyes were blank, as if she was staring through my camera lens and into the eyes of white America, saying “I am human, I am educated, I am accomplished and I’m a child of God. Will you just let me live?”
Take a look at some of the photos from the AGP2015 “Black Lives Matter” commemoration.
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