Beyond the Hoodie: Michael Brown’s Extended Arms — BagNews

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Beyond the Hoodie: Michael Brown’s Extended Arms – Reading The Pictures

After the Michael Brown killing, the symbolism that emerges as standing for the systemic dehumanization of young black males is the gesture of extending one’s arms to the sky.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/08/beyond-the-hoodie-michael-browns-extended-arms/

Michael Brown offers a peace sign and white culture can’t distinguish it from a gang sign? That’s a disconnect at the most primal level