The Rescuers

Wellll…he’s backed off that ‘civil unrest/violence’ meme he’s been spouting for the past few days. The first video I saw of him was Wednesday and he was pushing it hard; then, I saw him with Brian Williams & Ann Curry, and again – he was talking about how people were getting impatient and people get impatient….
The intent may have not meant to be racial, but it certainly came across to me that way. Poor blacks who have nothing, what can you expect? The picture he was beginning to paint whether his intention, was do these people deserve help if they’re going to just riot or cause trouble.

This is one very powerful picture. The fierce determination, the strength of their faces, their bodies, the presence of the woman in the center, the generational component. I hope this photograph endures and is used over and over to counter what I imagine will start appearing – images of wild twisted faces suggesting cursed and crazed savages.

I was stunned by it, beyond the strength and dignity portrayed, I felt this sense of time captured: where did they come from, what had just happened, what will happen?

Incredible imagery! The visualization of people’s heroism, that will not get the same hoopla as the “fightfighter and the dying baby” of the Oklahoma bombing. It is not to say that both are not very touching. But…
Images:
Firefighter and dying baby: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2879135686_525164b550.jpg

She’s wearing a Schlumberger hat.
Corporate debils!!