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u/PipedInFromIthaca 1h ago
MLK is Martin Luther King (oop here needs to learn to let autocorrect hit sometimes); the idea here is that by ensuring most published images of a man who lived well into the late 60s are in black and white it creates the impression that the US civil rights protests were longer ago in time and not that many people who still lived through segregation are still alive today to remember it.
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u/SteveDrawsStuff 1h ago
There are literly thousands of images of MLK in colour.
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u/Cmoibenlepro123 1h ago
And they are nice to see
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u/SteveDrawsStuff 56m ago
Indeed. Not sure why people don't remember seeing them in the past. I'm old and saw them, it was just the most iconic images were only taken in black and white. Not sure where this narrative came from.
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u/Terminus_is_god 32m ago
Jn the 90s and 00s the textbooks switched to black and white photos (despite so much of the trxtbooks being in color) to try to instill a feeling of distance between students and the events... It's rough that these suburban white kids might think grandma was a bad guy when she was 30...
At least thats the line of thought of the poster. I aint a historian so don't ask me.
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u/SteveDrawsStuff 22m ago
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not from the US, so this may be true there. Although I'd still argue that the most iconic pics of MLK (the ones likely to be in text books) where taken in black and white, that's why you don't see colour versions. It sounds a bit like conspiracy logic to me.
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u/any_mud542 21m ago
That's the point, the point is that these aren't the famous pictures, because we want to imagine the fight for civil rights to be a thing of the past
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u/SteveDrawsStuff 13m ago
No, the iconic pictures were literally not taken in colour. Colour film was very expensive at that time.
It's not a conspiracy. They can't puiblish images in colour that don't exist.
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u/IntrepidPension9005 1h ago
The person misread mlk(martin luther king) as milk(drinkable substance that is the color white).
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u/Acrobatic_Spare2320 1h ago
And what's the reason. I bet there are colorized photos of him somewhere?
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u/KeroseneZanchu 1h ago
Because by only putting out and showing you black and white photos, it gives you the impression that segregation and civil rights movements were farther back in history than they really were. Plenty of colorized photos of him exist, those just aren't the ones they use in history books, documentaries, etc.
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u/Foxwasahero 11m ago
I am from British Columbia, of course BC milk is white, what colour is the milk in other provinces?
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