Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 09:12:21 -0500
From: Gaines Steer
Subject:
Y’all, I visited (though briefly) the demonstrations last weekend down at the Horton Middle School driveway, just across from the Confederate Flag demo. Interesting, to say the least. Actually, I plan to utter: *the least*!
Well, yesterday as I entered the traffic backup down there at the now-empty protest site, I recognized a potentially phenomenal photo op that I had missed during the co-active demonstration. This: If a decent photographer would stand just behind the street sign on George Moses Horton Street and face the highway, and the Confederate Flag, there appears in one fell swoop an image of a worded sign *George Moses Horton* framed by a lofted Confederate Flag.
Folks, I consider that scenario, just described, to be the single most profound socio-political vision that I have ever witnessed. And, believe me, I have been been around a few dynamos… Just imagine: if the protestors from both sides of the street had been present during this photo line-up, this photo would have won the national photo contest, not to mention a local one. I won’t…. Unfortunately, I am a terrible photographer and my cell phone camera only captured the sun going down amid a traffic jam, just South of Pittsboro town. Can any decent photographer among us take a hint.
Gaines Steer
Personal Historian and Community Organizer 919 302-7235