This meme has surfaced around the internet and the creator of this has dealt with several struggles after this racist captioned associated with the man in this meme. The origin was in 1993, a photographer named Matt Kenlon was sent to cover the Mississippi River Flooding. In November 1994 the
photographer met a homeless man named William Todd in the town of Biloxi, Mississippi.
In 2001, the Something Awful forums began hosting a scanned version of one of
the photos -- the one with the fierce, vaguely threatening stare, glowering
through that intimidating hood:
The internet meme didn't go well for William Todd. The subject of the original photograph there was a thread in which the picture of the man got photoshopped into a cd in where Todd was linked to it. Todd was fired from his job and could not find another job for 6 months. He has been clean for 14 years and now works for a contractor rebuilding buildings in Biloxi.
This is a great example of how racism can go so far in society. People making jokes and deciding to create memes and associate people with a certain race can damage a person's life. Todd lost his job due to this meme he created online. People linked him to a thread about this meme even though he didn't create the album image, he created the original meme. Society has to be careful in what they post online because once it is online, it will be there forever.
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ReplyDeleteYou removed the only comment you got lol. Remove this one too. You can't write for shit. "...and associate people with a certain race can damage a persons life." What the fuck does this even mean? Are you Vietnamese trying to comment on issues that have nothing to do with you? That's a RAPE stare if I ever saw one and the meme is and was hilarious when it first came out and it's a fuckin warning to idiots that want to pretend all people are good. Shove it.
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