Great POTUS photo.

[Armento]

[cleodine velvet jackson]

Why?

[RAS]

This one's all over the FB news feeds.

[TAD]

Why?

hey semen, why is this a great photo? is there something i`m missing?

To me, a great photo of President Barack Obama would have him seated at the front of the bus not the middle, hell never mind that, the brother should be driving the damn bus, and it should be full of whites sitting at the back.

This photo to me symbolizes one step forward two steps backward for Black America, the first step backward being the electing of the first black president because it awakened the deep seeded resentment and hatred of a people by a people who thought this day would never come, and second, the senseless killing of young brother Trayvon Martin by a man who sought out young black men and felt they were expendable and devised a plan around the stand your ground law to eventually do the unthinkable, which he succeeded in doing.

It's painful to look at this photo.

[ngeso]

hey semen, why is this a great photo? is there something i`m missing?

To me, a great photo of President Barack Obama would have him seated at the front of the bus not the middle, hell never mind that, the brother should be driving the damn bus, and it should be full of whites sitting at the back.

This photo to me symbolizes one step forward two steps backward for Black America[...]

It's painful to look at this photo.

A black guy driving a bus full of white guys in the back = two steps forward. Right. Year 2012.








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[SuzanneT]

hey semen, why is this a great photo? is there something i`m missing?

To me, a great photo of President Barack Obama would have him seated at the front of the bus not the middle, hell never mind that, the brother should be driving the damn bus, and it should be full of whites sitting at the back.

This photo to me symbolizes one step forward two steps backward for Black America, the first step backward being the electing of the first black president because it awakened the deep seeded resentment and hatred of a people by a people who thought this day would never come, and second, the senseless killing of young brother Trayvon Martin by a man who sought out young black men and felt they were expendable and devised a plan around the stand your ground law to eventually do the unthinkable, which he succeeded in doing.

It's painful to look at this photo.

Well said TAD.
I hate this photo.

[liL Ray]

I prefer this one

[House4Life]

The man is Damned if he do Damned if he don't....

[joesuuf]

The man is Damned if he do Damned if he don't....

Right?! Maybe, maybe... he got on the bus and just thought I'mma sit here.

[Chris Wood]

Right?! Maybe, maybe... he got on the bus and just thought I'mma sit here.

thats what i was thinking

[SuzanneT]

I prefer this one

I do too.

The man is Damned if he do Damned if he don't....

It just can't be that we have a difference of opinion? Art is subjective.

[House4Life]

I do too.


It just can't be that we have a difference of opinion? Art is subjective.

No problem with that but every little thing President Obama does is dissected & scrutinized to the T!!

[sammyrock]

very cool.

[joesuuf]

No problem with that but every little thing President Obama does is dissected & scrutinized to the T!!

This goes with every POTUS but he's getting it extra hard, same will be true of any other POTUS of color and non-male.

[House4Life]

This goes with every POTUS but he's getting it extra hard, same will be true of any other POTUS of color and non-male.

Extra hard, Over the top etc, even his wife! Remember when they freaked out because she wore shorts on a Dirt trail of all places?!

[joesuuf]

Extra hard, Over the top etc, even his wife! Remember when they freaked out because she wore shorts on a Dirt trail of all places?!

Yup, I can't for him to beat the brakes off Romney, dude has NO chance.

[Armento]

It's Rosa Park's bus. Wtf, people

[ngeso]

It's Rosa Park's bus. Wtf, people

Imagine.


People are a little too quick with the hysterics this week.

[TAD]

It just can't be that we have a difference of opinion? Art is subjective.

right Sue T. it was just a moment of reflection. it didn`t seem to me just sitting on the bus. the picture evokes a lot of powerful images. even without the picture, america today in 2012 with all that has gone on in the last little while can only be seen as a country who`s scars have not healed completely and are beginning to open again.

[TAD]

A black guy driving a bus full of white guys in the back = two steps forward. Right. Year 2012.








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not what i wrote ngeso.

[TAD]

Imagine.


People are a little too quick with the hysterics this week.

this week? lol

[Martin Red]

the brother should be driving the damn bus

Yeah, i mean when a bus crashes, the driver always survives right. It's also perhaps a bit underpaid for the president.

Perhaps he is representing his stance on the downs of the financial crisis, rather than steering the bus away from past fuck ups, he's just a passenger, in the middle of the bus, owned and steered by Goldman Sachs.

[ngeso]

not what i wrote ngeso.

That's what I read when you wrote "to me, a great photo of President Barack Obama would have him seated at the front of the bus not the middle, hell never mind that, the brother should be driving the damn bus, and it should be full of whites sitting at the back."

That's the most powerful political figure on the planet today, sitting down for a moment of reflection and a White House staff photographer (the only one allowed in) in that very historic bus. The leap from Rosa Parks to the position of highest aspiration possible symbolised in that bus should IMO evoke a bit more pride and joy.

[mhd]

That's what I read when you wrote "to me, a great photo of President Barack Obama would have him seated at the front of the bus not the middle, hell never mind that, the brother should be driving the damn bus, and it should be full of whites sitting at the back."

That's the most powerful political figure on the planet today, sitting down for a moment of reflection and a White House staff photographer (the only one allowed in) in that very historic bus. The leap from Rosa Parks to the position of highest aspiration possible symbolised in that bus should IMO evoke a bit more pride and joy.

way too simplistic, so far detached from reality

[Daniel, Grand Duke of Stony Island]

The guy is sitting where his forebears had to sit, showing he knows where he came from and what it took for him to be where he is today. It doesn't work if he sits anywhere but where he's sitting. If he sits in the front, it isn't an appropriate connotation. It's hubris to sit anywhere but where black folks would have sat on that bus back when. This isn't a Chappelle's Show sketch. What - POTUS is supposed to get it tricked out with rims and a spoiler 'n shit?