Homage

Other themes in the mural aside, this is what gets me about artistic renditions of the iconic and immemorial Black Power Olympic fist pump: they keep leaving out the white dude. True celebrants and pride-​takers in black culture ought to have parallel love for white culture. #yesijustsaidthat
You… did know there was a white dude standing with the two black dudes, right? And you knew he was the reason other brahbrah still got to raise a (left) fist instead of none at all? You also knew he, just like the black dudes, wore his own tokens of black culture? That he furthermore took his own heat & hardship for his blackness? #yesisaidthattoo And that his two eternal brahbrahs were the ones carrying him at his funeral? That, folks, is black solidarity. #relaxandtakenotes
I’m repurposing the «Thank You» at the mural’s bottom as a thank-​you to those who understand black love is human love, thus it encompasses a love of all versions of humans. Even the white ones.