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Description of Pictures: Society's Cage – A Statement on the Forces of Systemic Racism

From https://www.smithgroup.com/societys-cage
Society’s Cage is a timely interpretive installation born in the aftermath of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders as our society reckons with institutional racism and white supremacy. The public installation features a bold interpretive pavilion sculpted to symbolize the historic forces of racialized state violence. The experience educates visitors and functions as a sanctuary to reflect, record and share personal thoughts. It is conceived in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement as a mechanism for building empathy and healing.

The initial installation coincides with the March on Washington in support of Black Lives, and is located on the National Mall at 12th Street and Madison Drive NW. It is open to the public August 28 - September 12, 2020.

Financial donations continue to be needed to fund scholarships through the installation. Please see SUPPORT below.

Design

Society’s Cage reminds visitors that the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are not anomalies, but rather the latest examples in a 400+ year historic pattern of unmitigated, unbound, systemic anti-Blackness in the United States. The installation provides an opportunity to acknowledge and reckon with the severity of the racial biases inherent in the institutional structures of justice and creates a space for collective reflection, contemplation, sharing and healing.

The pavilion is a series of bars which are hung to form a cube with a cavernous void that symbolizes our imperfect society and justice system. The void is shaped by historical data and serves as a visual metaphor to represent the primary institutional forces of racism that embody the Black American experience.

The Exterior Experience: Educate

Wrapping the edifice of Society’s Cage is an interpretive educational experience about racist lynchings, police terrorism, mass incarceration and capital punishment as the primary institutional structures of anti-Black state violence. Visitors are directed to additional educational resources through QR codes.

The Interior Experience: Empathize

The interior of the installation offers the visitor an emotive experience. Enveloped in a soundscape commissioned for the installation, beneath a constellation of lights, this second interpretive experience is designed to build empathy and understanding. Inside the pavilion is an opportunity to participate in a universal exercise of holding one’s breath for as long as one can. This exercise is inspired by the indignities performed on George Floyd in the 8:46 in which his life was tragically and unnecessarily stolen. The visitor is then encouraged to record a video on their own smartphone state how long they were able to hold their breath and provide brief reflections to upload to a social media platform with a unique hashtag specific to this installation.

Experience Society's Cage Digitally

To extend the Society's Cage installation online, this text document features all the educational and interpretive content from the physical installation, paired with additional resources. The augmented reality simulation below allows anyone to interact with a digital twin of the pavilion from anywhere.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SCAGE1_200906_006.JPG: What is the value of a Black Life in America? #societyscage A bold experiential installation highlighting the historic forces of racialized state violence.
2. SCAGE1_200906_027.JPG: Society's Cage Society's Cage is a timely interpretive installation born in the aftermath of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders as our society reckons with institutional racism and white supremacy. The public installation features a bold interpretive pavilion sculpted to symbolize the historic forces of racialized state violence. The experience educates visitors and functions as a sanctuary to reflect, record and share personal thoughts. It is conceived in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement as a mechanism for building empathy and healing. The pavilion is a series of bars which are hung to form a cube with a cavernous void that symbolizes our imperfect society and justice system. The void is shaped by historical data and serves as a visual metaphor to represent the primary institutional forces of racism that embody the Black American experience. https://www.smithgroup.com/societys-cage
3. SCAGE1_200906_030.JPG: THE CUBE The perfect cube form suggests a fair and equitable societal construct. THE VOID Carved out of the cube, the void is an obstacle-filled path symbolizing Black Americans struggle for survival. GRAVITY Data is physically manifested to demonstrate the odds stacked against Black Americans; inside, the weight of oppression is experienced. BARS The perfect cube of bars represents the systemic oppression of white supremacy actively subverting Black progress. 1 IN 4 1 in 4 bars physically touches the ground, representing the statistical probability of being imprisoned as a Black American. THE DATA Systemic racism creates obstacles in every facet of life: employment, housing, education, police violence, mass incarceration
4. SCAGE1_200906_044.JPG: Death by cop 10% 1 in 10 black people killed by police are unarmed. The risk of being killed by police for black people is 2.5 times the risk for white people.
5. SCAGE1_200906_047.JPG: Violent encounters with the police have profound effects on health, life expectancy, neighborhoods, and politics. Policing plays a pivotal role in maintaining structural inequalities between people of color and white people in the United States. The killings of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Charleena Lyles, Stephon Clark, and Tamir Rice, among many others, have underscored the racialized character of police violence against civilians. Social scientists and public health scholars now widely acknowledge that police contact is a crucial vector of health inequality and a factor of early mortality for people of color.
6. SCAGE1_200906_051.JPG: George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. Court transcripts of police body camera recordings show him cooperating and repeatedly apologizing to officers after they approach his parked car. He was imploring them not to shoot him. It was when officers tried to put Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued. According to reports, Mr. Floyd became stiff, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic. The police pulled him away from the vehicle, causing him to fall. He lay there, face down on the ground, still in handcuffs. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, then placed his left knee on Mr. George Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Bodycam footage from surrounding officers shows Mr. Floyd pleading, "I can't breathe" more than 20 times as the officers pinned him to the asphalt. In the recordings, Mr. Floyd can be heard pleading "Please, please, please," and saying, "Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead." After approximately six minutes, George Floyd became non-responsive. Medical staff pronounced him dead an hour later.
7. SCAGE1_200906_052.JPG: Death penalty 34% Black people are disproportionately sentenced to death and executed. 13% Of the total u.s. Population, but 41% of death row and 34% of all executions.
8. SCAGE1_200906_055.JPG: The United States has a long history of racial discrimination in the use of the death penalty. For much of our history, death penalty laws have been overtly discriminatory. 96% of states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty show patterns of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination. States executed 295 Black defendants when their victim was white. In comparison, states only executed 21 white defendants when the victim was Black.
9. SCAGE1_200906_058.JPG: Wrongfully convicted, George Stinney Jr. was a 14-year-old Black boy who accused of murdering two white girls. It took the 12 white men on the jury 10 minutes to find George guilty. The court sentenced him to die by electrocution. George was so small that he did not fit in the electric chair. The executioners sat him on a book so his head would reach the headpiece, they strapped him in with thick leather straps that were too big for him, then executed the young boy.
10. SCAGE1_200906_063.JPG: How long can you hold your breath?
11. SCAGE1_200906_097.JPG: Mass incarceration What is the value of a Black life in America? 49% Out of over 2600 people absolved of crimes since 1956 nearly half have been black. In america, black people are far more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual assault and drug crimes.
12. SCAGE1_200906_101.JPG: Lynchings 73% Between 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of those victims, 3,446 were Black.
13. SCAGE1_200906_105.JPG: After the formal abolition of slavery, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress Black civil rights. These lynchings were public acts of racial terrorism, intended to instill fear in Black communities. Government officials frequently turned a blind eye or condoned this mob violence.
14. SCAGE1_200906_115.JPG: "After learning of the lynching of her husband, Mary Turner-in her eighth month of pregnancy-vowed to find those responsible, swear out warrants against them, and have them punished in the courts. For making such a threat, a mob of several hundred men and women determined to ‘teach her a lesson.' After tying her ankles together, they hung her from a tree, head downward. Dowsing her clothes with gasoline, they burned them from her body. While she was still alive, someone used a knife . . . to cut open the woman's abdomen. The infant fell from her womb to the ground and cried briefly, whereupon a member of this Valdosta, Georgia, mob crushed the baby's head beneath his heel."
15. SCAGE1_200906_119.JPG: Mass incarceration What is the value of a Black life in America? 49% Out of over 2600 people absolved of crimes since 1956 nearly half have been black. In America, Black people are far more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual assault and drug crimes.
16. SCAGE1_200906_123.JPG: America incarcerates Black people at far higher rates than any other racial group. Black people are 40% of America's prison population, but just 13.4% of the total U.S. population. Conversely, white Americans are 39% of the prison population but 64% of the U.S. population. One out of four Black boys born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime compared to one out of every 17 white boys. Black people are also subject to pretrial detention at a higher rate than white arrestees with similar charges and criminal history.
17. SCAGE1_200906_127.JPG: While walking home from a party in May 2010, 16-year-old Kalief Browder and a friend were stopped by police officers responding to a 911 call. The officers wrongfully arrested Browder for allegedly stealing a backpack. Kalief would spend the next three years imprisoned on Rikers Island, a maximum-security prison, including two years solitary confinement. His trial never came. Released from prison in 2013, on the grounds of lack of evidence, Browder returned home to the Bronx. On June 6, 2015, at his home in the Bronx, Kalief Browder hanged himself, a method of suicide he was exposed to while wrongfully imprisoned.
18. SCAGE1_200906_160.JPG: "Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob." -- Ida B. Wells "Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more." -- Stokely Carmichael "I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery." -- Immortal Technique "Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching" -- Frantz Fanon "Jim Crow and mass incarceration have similar political origins...both caste systems were born in part, due to desire among white elites to exploit the resentments, vulnerabilities and racial biases of poor and working-class whites for political or economic gain. Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate and strategic effort to deflect anger and hostility that have been brewing against the white elite away from them and toward African Americans. The birth of mass incarceration can be traced to a similar political dynamic. Conservatives in the 1960s and 1970s sought to appeal to the racial biases and economic vulnerabilities of poor and working-class whites through racially coded rhetoric on crime and welfare. In both cases, the racial opportunists offered few, if any, economic reforms to address the legitimate economic anxieties of poor and working-class whites, proposing instead a crackdown on the racially defined "others." In the early years of Jim Crow, conservative white elites competed with each other by passing ever more stringent and oppressive Jim Crow legislation. A century later, politicians in the early years of the drug war competed with each other to prove who could be tougher on crime by passing ever harsher drug laws -- a thinly veiled effort to appeal to poor and working-class whites who, once again, proved they were willing to forego economic and structural reform in exchange for an apparent effort to put blacks back "in their place." -- Michelle Alexander "The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd." -- Ida B. Wells "I have noted time and time again that when an individual perjures himself in order to break the force of the black man's ballot, he soon learns to practice dishonesty in other relations of life, not only where the Negro is concerned, but equally so where a white man is concerned. The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man. All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South." -- Booker T. Washington "The destruction of Black males now is indirect, so that the Black male victims themselves can be led to participate in -- and then be blamed for -- their own mass deaths." -- Frances Cress Welsing
19. SCAGE2_200906_027.JPG: "I live in the ghetto, the ghetto don't live in me" -- Wise Intelligent "White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples." -- Cornel West "Tis better to fight, and die if need be, Than to live, if to live means to compromise manhood, And to sacrifice the sacred things that life is made of." -- AJ Smitherman "A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial." -- Ayi Kwei Armah "Who gives you the right to take us from our culture? Blind us from our heritage? Trade my ancestors for material goods then demote them from statuses of Queens, Kings, Prophets, and profitable villagers and villages from which they belonged, to common slaves? Damn our ancestors were strong, physically and mentally to withstand the ignorant and brutal ways. Our oppressors then, generations later still oppress, but generations later determined black minds still progress." -- Evocalist, (The Brothas Unda Madness) "I refuse to despair in this moment. I refuse to allow myself to fall into the dark chambers of pessimism, because I think in any social revolution the one thing that keeps it going is hope, and when hope dies somehow the revolution degenerates into a kind of nihilistic philosophy which says you must engage in disruption for disruption's sake...I believe that the forces of goodwill, white and black, in this country can work together to bring about a resolution...We have the resources to do it..." -- Tavis Smiley "If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country." -- Malcolm X "Old measures of health not only have failed to improve significantly but have stayed the same: some have even worsened. Mainstream newspapers and magazines often report disease in an ethnocentric manner that shrouds its true cost among African Americans. For example, despite the heavy emphasis on genetic ailments among blacks, fewer than 0.5 percent of black deaths -- that's less than one death in two hundred -- can be attributed to hereditary disorders such as sickle-cell anemia. A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks." -- Harriet A. Washington "I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces policies that promote inequity." -- Rosa Clemente "Clear-cut superiority in things social and economic -- by whatever means -- has been a scruples-free premise of American ruling class authority from the society's inception to the present. The initial socioeconomic advantage, begotten by chattel slavery, was enforced by undaunted violence and the constant threat of more violence" -- Huey P. Newton "It just goes on, and on, and on. Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can't just be on people of color to deal with it," -- Michelle Obama "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." -- Roberto Clemente
20. SCAGE2_200906_049.JPG: "Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny." -- Huey P. Newton "The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation -- that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward." -- Ida B. Wells "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." -- Martin Luther King Jr. "This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom." -- Carter G. Woodson "American prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. Mass incarceration has been largely ruled by misguided drug policy and excessive sentencing, but the internment of hundreds of thousands of poor and mentally ill people has been a driving force in achieving our record levels of imprisonment." -- Bryan Stevenson "I am the dream and hope of the slave." -- Maya Angelou "Blood of a slave, heart of a king" – Nas "Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems -- racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on." -- Angela Y. Davis "Segregation is also created and perpetuated by the flood of prisoners who return to ghetto communities...These neighborhoods are a minefield for parolees, for a standard condition of parole is a promise not to associate with felons." -- Michelle Alexander "The average Black male / Live a third of his life in a jail cell / Cause the world is controlled by the white male / And the people don't never get justice / And the women don't never get respected / And the problems don't never get solved / And the jobs don't never pay enough / So the rent always be late, can you relate? / We livin' in a police state" -- Dead Prez "We could not be Africans and slaves at the same time; we could not hold on to our African identity, our African selves, knowledge of our African culture, and be enslaved...the subordinates of another people. It is only when that knowledge is removed, erased, degraded, stolen, taken and distorted that we lose our identity. It is then that our identity is placed upon us by another people and by external forces. Therefore a lack of self -- knowledge is a lack of self -- awareness is also an insensitivity to the self. But an insensitivity in the self is also an insensitivity to reality and to the outside. Without the sensitivity of the outside world and the self, we are left to blindly stumble from one point to another." -- Dr. Amos Wilson "It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderers behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved -- and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish." -- George L. Jackson "Policing in the Americas has always been about protecting private property, including keeping Afrikan people enslaved on the "master's" plantations. Originating in slave patrols and night watches in the 17th century, policing of Afrikan-descended people involved surveilling, maiming, raping, and killing to prevent work stoppages, escapes, and revolts. Supported by Judeo-Christian teachings and pseudo-scientific theories, the Euro-American settler colonial state enshrined these acts of terror into laws, thereby inventing whiteness as the standard for humanity. In doing that, the state hierarchized human beings by assigning different values and distinct rights to their bodies and quarantining them in separate enclosures in order to better exploit their labor, including birthing and caring for future workers. The emergence of capitalism from feudalism has always been racialized and reached its apex in the enslavement and oppression of Afrikans. As such, policing in the U.S. functioned to uphold racial capitalism and anti-Blackness." -- A statement by Community Movement Builders, On Ending the Police Occupation and Terrorism Against Black People "This unfortunate position of the African Continent and its peoples appears to be the result of misrepresentation upon which the structure of race prejudice has been built, i.e. the historical world opinion that the African Continent is backward, that its people are backward, and that their civilization is also backward." -- George G.M. James "You have the emergence in human society of this thing that's called the State. What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy: it is the police department. It is the Army, the Navy. It is the prison system, the courts, and what have you. This is the State; it is a repressive organization. But some people say gee well, you know, you've got to have the police because if there were no police, look at what you'd be doing to yourselves -- you'd be killing each other if there were no police! But the reality is the police become necessary in human society only at that juncture in human society where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got" -- Chairman Omali Yeshitela
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