{"id":3835,"date":"2010-05-28T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2010-05-28T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T00:17:07","slug":"a-rlsh-view-of-student-klan-robe-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2010\/05\/28\/a-rlsh-view-of-student-klan-robe-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"A RLSH View of Student Klan Robe Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Ariemma is a Lumpkin County, Georgia AP ( Advanced Placement ) teacher at the center of a firestorm.<br \/>\nShe had students dress in Ku Klux Klan robe for a racism documentary they were filming. Black students saw them strolling through the lunchroom and understandably sparks flew.<br \/>\nAs a Georgian; Black man and RLSH I fully understand both her intent and those students outrage.<br \/>\nHere is a textbook example of the power of costuming! These images evoked such powerful emotions that it&#8217;s now an international scandal.<br \/>\nMembers of the real life superhero ( RLSH ) Movement use costumes to inspire and bring attention to worthy causes.<br \/>\nCases like Ms. Ariemma&#8217;s present rare opportunities to demonstrate the power of iconic symbols, pro and con.<br \/>\nVisual shock and awe like this challenges hard wired inequality too often unsaid in public.<br \/>\nI grew up under Jim Crow-Lite combating racist insults and treatment on a regular basis. Comfort was derived from devouring science fiction, pulp novels, comics and history books.<br \/>\nHeroic images from fact and fiction reminded me that the lop sided reality around me wasn&#8217;t the only one.<br \/>\nThe real world offers few super villains courteous enough to wear outfits screaming ill will. At least with Klan robes on you can see trouble coming.<br \/>\nIn suits and ties it becomes harder.<br \/>\nI support what Ms. Ariemma was attempting. Images instruct in ways even the best words sometimes can&#8217;t.<br \/>\nBreaking the conspiracy of silence on race is real life super heroism worthy of praise. Too often some envision old black and white footage when civil rights is mentioned.<br \/>\nCivil rights and the power of images is as relevant today as when protesters allowed themselves to be beaten on television to spur legal reform.<br \/>\nImages can either provoke great good or evil. It&#8217;s up to the individual to decide how he&#8217;s motivated.<br \/>\nTo the offended Black children I offer this caveat: if it&#8217;s upsetting seeing people in Klan robes, imagine how unpleasant it is being bushwhacked by plain clothed Klan minds?<br \/>\nThe real world doesn&#8217;t always offer easily identifiable menaces like the Joker or Dr. Doom.<br \/>\nToo often real life super villains wear nice suits and hide behind respectable titles while destroying lives.<br \/>\nI think Catherine Ariemma earned her honorary cape for courageous use of iconic imagery.<br \/>\nYou never know where a RLSH may pop up!<br \/>\nNADRA ENZI AKA CAPT. BLACK promotes crime prevention and self-development. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captblack.info\">http:\/\/www.captblack.info<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Black post his opinion on the Catherine Ariemma controversy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,17],"tags":[326,442,1433,1435,1455,2138,2181,2236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}