I wonder if the shadow noose is intentional.
I wish the noose wasn’t there. It’s unrelated to the incident, and it’s a method of murder associated with black people, not CEOs. Make it a guillotine or just a normal shadow.
In the US specifically, there is an association with lynching. Lynching was the preferred method of white towns for dealing with any black person they felt stepped out of line or committed a crime from about 1865-1965. This article provides a good run down.
I kinda feel like what they’re going for is a “shoot the rope” thing with that shadow.
Agreed. It reads as the “shooter” killing a mass murderer whose noose/shadow kills all those it touches.
Associated with black people… and centuries of executions prior that had nothing to do with color.
A noose over a tree I could see being more racial - kkk killings etc - but hanging is more of a “common persons execution” historically
So then why is it in the picture? Wouldn’t say this was a ‘common person’s death’. In fact, it’s the opposite. To me the imagery doesn’t match. And no matter how I agree with the larger sentiment, I’ll never wear anything with a noose on it.
Yeah, it’s not associated with black people outside the US. It’s how serfs or common criminals are dealt with historically.
That weird shadow looks nothing like a noose to me other than like a vague shape of a straight line meeting a closed shape that isn’t really that round or noose-like.
That’s extremely vague and wouldn’t fit with the rest of the art; everything else looks like what it is, cars, people, so it the shadow was suppose to depict a noose, why doesn’t it look like one?
