Rahere, I completely disagree because to me, each name is the beginning of a search to find out what happened and what that individual's life was about as separate from the remaking of their legacy. To me this is the required NAMING of people who are so often treated as nameless. It's a way of NOT benefiting from the displaying of their bodies, by looking past the smeared and blamed image the cops in most cases gave them.

I understand your point, Rahere, but it misses my heart. It misses also the reality that friends who are people of color expect me to take that journey and are waiting for what I wll learn on it. And not a one of them sees it your way. I'll be happy to check with them if you don't mind my quoting your post.

Would you have objected in the same way to the memorialization of lives lost by shipwreck? I think (I hope) you would stand by respectfully while name after name tolled, not interrupt to correct the one memorializing.

~S~