FROM The Baltimore Sun:

As Aaron Bryant walked along North Avenue on the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral, his photographer’s eye noted how the rising flames framed the “waves of police in riot gear” and the wall of ministers calling for calm.

Instinctively, the Baltimore man says, he began mentally cataloging the most evocative “visual cues” around him. He knew they would help inform his work chronicling the moment as a photography curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, now under construction on the National Mall in Washington.

As he surveyed the unrest on the evening of April 27, Bryant asked himself a series of questions.

“Who’s in the photograph and what is the impact they’re having on the people around them?” asked Bryant, 50. “Why are they here? Why are these people in front? Who are the people behind them?”

Later, when colleague Tulani Salahu-Din looked at an image Bryant had snapped of a burning car on North Avenue, her eyes immediately zeroed in on a single object: the overturned bar stool in the front seat that had been used to smash the car’s windshield.

In the bar stool, Salahu-Din saw an item the museum “might be able to salvage” in the days or months after the unrest, to help tell the human story of the clashes as part of a future exhibit.

Paul Kersey writes at his website:

No, this isn’t a parody.

This is an actual article from The Baltimore Sun.

One of the museum’s curators actually believes the barstool used to destroy a Baltimore Police Department cruiser is worthy of exhibiting in the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History & Culture.

In reality, the barstool should be in a museum to condemn black people (and showcase their TRUE contributions to society), instead of condoning black people’s actions in destroying private and public property in the 65 percent black city of Baltimore.

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