Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Bed-Stuy Ads Recommend Black People "Stop Being Black"
Posted by Henry Stewart on Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Many in the community appreciate the ads. A local organizer, speaking of the gentrification in Bed-Stuy, told the blog “for many of the young yuppies and buppies, they see the police playing a positive role and trying to engage in a race neutral dialouge... What the billboard is doing is kinda opening up and exploding this myth that [stop-and-frisk] is taking place in a race neutral light—it’s making people confront it in a very real way.”
Click through to see more of RISE's ads, some of whose arguments are a bit more controversial. [photo]
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Henry Stewart
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Henry Stewart is the Culture Editor at The L Magazine and some kind of editor at Brooklyn Magazine. He has always lived in Brooklyn.
Henry Stewart is the Culture Editor at The L Magazine and some kind of editor at Brooklyn Magazine. He has always lived in Brooklyn.
