What 'Situation Room Photo' reveals about us

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/05/iconic.photo/index.html?hpt=C2


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You may know it simply as the "Situation Room Photo," but you may not be aware of what some say are three subliminal messages that make it so powerful and unusual.

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"The photo is visually suggestive of a new American landscape that we're still crossing into," says Saladin Ambar, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

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For much of U.S. history, the black man has often been portrayed as the threat to America's safety -- the angry man, the thug, the one you cross the street to avoid, says Cheryl Contee, co-founder of Jack & Jill Politics, a blog focused on current affairs from a black perspective.

But in the Situation Room photo, Contee says, the black man is America's protector.

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Yet you see two powerful women in the Situation Room photograph -- Clinton and Audrey Tomason, director for counterterrorism, who is straining to see from the back. Their inclusion shows how far women have come, Ambar says, even though Clinton's response is ambiguous because she's covering her mouth in what looks to be alarm.

-snip of final difference - no swagger from pres. - he didn't sit in the tallest chair, etc.-
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these excerps doesn't do the article justice.

read the whole thing

the last paragraph says "It is an image unimaginable 30 years ago," he says. "Let us hope we have more of these in the nation's future."

agree

the other little creeps..."

Thanks for posting.

Turns the old cliches out on their asses.

I'm so proud Hillary was there. She just amazes me every day. I keep going back to "look who YOU guys got: sarah palin. Look who WE got: Hillary Clinton." I rest my case.