New Yorker Magazine "Dream Of Reconciliation" MLK Cover

[Box Cutta]

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2015-01-26

Barry Blitt drew next week’s cover, inspired by the photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that are everywhere again. “It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” he said. “In New York and elsewhere, the tension between the police and the policed is at the center of things. Like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, Martin Luther King was taken way too early. It is hard to believe things would have got as bad as they are if he was still around today.”

Is this an appropriate cover, given recent events?

What is reconciliation?

Who is most satisfied by the message being sent here?

Are there some false equivalencies present, or do both "sides" need to look inward before we can look towards "reconciliation"?

 

[mrken12]

Putting sociopathic cops in the photo too?

 

[Meadow]

Saw that yesterday morning and didn't quite understand the inclusion (or strategic positioning?) of officers Liu and Ramos either.

 

[Canon]

hell no

 

[The Nigerian]

We need to dead this "I Have a Dream" nonsense.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

White people stay twisting the legacy of MLK to fit their nonsensical narratives.

They never will get it at all.

But then again, who killed him?

 

[inthebushes]

I don't see ramos