I like to watch the news every morning, because I am too freaking lazy to read the news online. Good Morning America's segment included a deviant act from the royal prince Williams: Williams let a "public" person take pictures of him, and this public person was once homeless. The two came from a dichotomous (yet not so far) world. There was one particular gorgeous photo of Williams and the public man; it was in black and white and showed the two men side by side. It warmed my heart, because it was so symbolic.
The default status that is poured onto you as a person from the royal family doesn't seem easy to live with. I would also imagine that maintaining a royal lifestyle isn't all that hard either. But for a person with so much (imaginary) power to stand next to, interact with, touch, and form a bond with a man who is stigmatized, because of the label impounded onto his being as one living on the streets, the idea of who is worthy and humane is undermined by the essential idea that we are all the same when our constructed social identities are stripped.
This particular news coverage on Williams made me reminisce about Diana and how the whole world began to view and "play" with the topic of HIV/AIDs in a different way when she held a child who was HIV positive in Africa. It was a shock, it was incomprehensible, because it was deviant.
A deviant action is only deviant because it makes us rethink what a "natural" order and "rational" action is; it makes us rethink how we live within ourselves and in relation to other people; it makes us wonder if there is something such as right and wrong. It can can be a dangerous weapon, but it can also be a healing device.
sounds like bob washington left his mark
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