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| (This billboard is one in the series, in Mississippi) |
Tracy Martin, daughter of Spider Martin (who took the photo used on the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts billboard), told Hyperallergic that she had given permission to For Freedoms Co-Founder Hank Willis Thomas to use the iconic photograph as part of an ongoing collaboration. She disagreed with the mayor’s decision" (to take down the billboard), "calling it a “violation of freedom of speech.”
“These boards ask the question: When was America great?” Martin said in a statement to Hyperallergic last week. “The MAGA slogan has been clear for many years, and as far as we know, the person who coined it doesn’t think America is great now but rather that it was great during some other time in the past.”
(From a column on the website www.hyperallegic)
The Mayor's letter said that while Reed removed the design because he believed
it wrongfully politicized the Selma marches, others may have appreciated
the parallels the billboard drew between civil rights struggles and
current events.
WHAT? Politics involved in the the civil rights struggle???? I'm shocked!
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