Early Work Of Gordon Parks On View At Addison Gallery of American Art
Chadd Scott, Forbes
March 2020
This is a picture of institutional racism. The confusion on this face is the result of institutional racism. A black child, asked to pick between a white baby and a black baby, pointing at the white baby. Does he choose the baby that looks like him, like the people he knows, validating his self-worth, or does he select the white child which a short life’s worth of external programming has already brainwashed him into believing is superior. […]