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“CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!” MLK. Some years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King’s inspirational words were appropriated from his “I Have a Dream” speech and co-opted by those that were otherwise opposed to his vision. The transference of this proclamation, for their own cynical political self-interest, was a rationale for pursuing a race neutralized platform, where race is never a factor in consideration of allieving grievances. This new articulation embodied a wider more elusive paradigm of a color blind appeal, applied to…
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Conceptual Design Thought Processing
cinéma vérité Documentary storytelling in which the lens is left open allowing for the subject or subject-matter to tell the story without the intervention of person capturing the story. Realism, not artificially manipulated; the subject is left to tell the story in their own voice. Cinéma vérité, sometimes simply “direct cinema,” its goal was essentially the capturing of the reality of a person, a moment, or an event without any intervention or arrangement before the camera. However, as unobtrusive the genre and style of storytelling, cinéma verity is produced and manipulated through focus of the lens held and directed by the person behind the lens, who ostensibly frames the storytelling. Their perspective and prejudices predicate the telling of the story with…