I saw this image on Twitter and was both moved and charmed
People familiar with Norman Rockwell's political paintings will recognize the silhouette from "The Problem We All Live With"
The painting was Rockwell's commentary on Ruby Bridges, as a child of six, taking on the enormous weight of integrating the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960
Something I learned: Ruby Bridges was still in high school when Kamala Harris herself entered kindergarten.Think of that.
The image of Kamala Harris with Ruby Bridges as her shadow was made by an artist who I think is in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bria Goeller. It's being used on t-shirts by a SF Bay Area Good Trubble, q Black owned design shop out of California. Website:https://wtfamerica2017.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goodtrubble. I wrote to Goeller asking her for a print; she said GoodTrubble is looking into making and selling prints, and I'll let you know here when they are available.
Goeller's use of silhouette is an homage to the remarkable work of Kara Walker. You can see more of Walker's work at https://m.theartstory.org/artist/walker-kara/
Here's a sample:
Source: https://www.montclairlocal.news/2018/09/14/kara-walker-montclair-art-museum/
And here is a completely joyous image of Harris with Ruby Bridges, taken March 8, 2020
Ruby Bridges has recently published "This Is Your Time"</p
Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby’s experience as a child who had no choice but to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen as one of the first black students to integrate New Orleans’ all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.
I've ordered it for my granddaugher's library. She is too young to read it, but not to young (I think) to absorb the images
I want to to acknowledge: some people object to the image of Ruby Bridges being attached to Kamala Harris. The reason(s): Ruby Bridges is a hero of the movement for Civil Rights. For some, it's important to separate American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) from Black people of different lineages or ancestries. Kamala Harris is, yes, Black, but her father, Donald J. Harris, is not an American descendant of slavery. The senior Harris was born in Jamaica, and emigrated to the U.S.in the early 1960s.
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