ONE month ago,
George Floyd was brutally inhumanly murdered by asphyxiation
by MPD Officer Chauvin and systemic racism.
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Please click on reFRAME (one of eight original paintings) for detail
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reFRAME: A Catherine L. Johnson 2020
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reFRAME / reFRAMING
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The essential idea behind reFRAMING
is that a specific crystallized demographic / person’s
point-of-view depends
on the frame it is viewed in.
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When the frame is shifted,
the meaning changes
and
thinking
and
behavior
often change along with it.
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Another way to understand
the concept of reFRAMING
is to imagine looking through
the frame of a camera lens.
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The picture seen through the lens
can be
changed and reshaped
to views / experiences
of
nascent truths
and
expansive sensory possibilities
via
EXPLORING
an unfixed exponential spectrum
of lenses from various
angles/distance/emotional/empirical/empathetic/spiritual
KALEIDOSCOPIC
vantage points.
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By the willingness
of even slightly changing
what is seen in the camera,
the once
‘conditioned’ / ‘clung to’ / ‘conventional’ / ‘fixed’
cognitive and LIVED picture
IS
NOW
viewed
and
experienced
differently.
aNEW.
YES!
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7 TERMS kNOW
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SEEing
and
SAY THE NAME
is the
ANVIL
for
reVITALized
optics
and
language
and
interactive social justice.
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Please Stop ‘Checking In to See If I’m Okay’
Whatever you think I might be feeling because of the news right now,
it’s not new for me this week.
https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/i-dont-need-your-check-in-texts.html
About a week ago, I called a friend on the East Coast,
another black woman working in public radio,
to talk about something weird that was happening.
“Hey, are you getting a bunch of texts
from random white people asking if you’re okay?” I asked.
“What? No,” she said. “You are?”
I told her that I’d heard from a handful of people,
some of whom I hadn’t communicated with for months,
saying they couldn’t imagine the pain I must be feeling.
That they were here for me if I needed them.
I thought maybe this was just a thing people were doing in hyperwoke Oakland.
But then the next day,
that friend sent me a screenshot from one of her friends with the same language,
“Can’t imagine how black people are feeling. I’m so sorry.”
Another friend got a text from someone
she hadn’t spoken to in six years that noted
that she was “important” and called her “a queen.”
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2020/06/09/davis-how-to-be-a-white-ally-and-practice-antiracism
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There are 771 Confederate statues in the US
(Figures last updated July 2019 by Southern Poverty Law Center)
The Southern states of Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and Texas
are home to half of the country’s Confederate statues and monuments.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2020/06/mapping-hundreds-confederate-statues-200610103154036.html
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President Teddy Roosevelt
bookended
by generic representations of two marginalized demographics.
The visual language NAMES it.
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Ken Burns:
reVISION versus revisionist
FALSE NARRATIVES
EXCELLENT
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The African-Americans:
Many Rivers to Cross
with
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
6 episodes | PBS
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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
can be viewed on Amazon PRIME through 3 July 2020.
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 
Catherine this is so outstanding and so well, well done!!!!!
Thank you for ALL of your efforts and education.
I bet you were outstanding as a teacher.
So very impressive
Love you so much and very very proud of you!, Aunt Sharon
On Jun 25, 2 020,