the soiling of old glory

The photographs in the essay are wildly powerful. The one of the 19 year old woman and her two year old goddaughter is horrific and i cannot imagine being int eh photographers shoes. I thinkt he essay is wonderfully written in that it does address the problems, but it doesn't really go beyond that. There is no discussion of what can be done and merely addresses teh problems represented in teh photographs. Particularly the busing incident photograph of 1976. It was clearly taken some time ago and i wonder when the essay was writte; if any analysis of how racism has changed, or not changed, since then could be made. I think more could be done on the analysis part but i think the author did a good job taking advantage of the photographs powerful images.