Name: 【TED】Damon Davis: Courage is contagious (Courage is contagious | Damon Davis)
Uploaded: 2017-08-28T16:15:40.000Z
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that will readily admit when they are afraid.

across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

I have lived in and around St. Louis my entire life.

was gunned down by police in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri --

another suburb, but north of St. Louis --

and he won't be the last young kid to lose his life to law enforcement.

I remember the powers that be trying to use fear as a weapon.

The police response to a community in mourning was to use force

The media even tried to make us afraid of each other

And all of these things have worked in the past.

But like I said, this time it was different.

Michael Brown's death and the subsequent treatment of the community

led to a string of protests in and around Ferguson and St. Louis.

When I got out to those protests about the fourth or fifth day,

But I couldn't sit in St. Louis, minutes away from Ferguson,

Then a new emotion was interjected into the conversation:

I saw a lot of people that had the same thing going on.

But I also saw people with something else inside of them.

and they were not about to back down from the police.

And then I could feel something in me changing,

and I noticed that everybody around me was doing the same thing.

So I decided I wanted to do something more.

I went home, I thought: I'm an artist. I make shit.

So I started making things specific to the protest,

things that would be weapons in a spiritual war,

and things that would fortify them for the road ahead.

I did a project where I took pictures of the hands of protesters

and put them up and down the boarded-up buildings

My goal was to raise awareness and to raise the morale.

Then I thought, I want to uplift the stories of these people

I was watching being courageous in the moment.

for all of this courage that was given to me.

And I think that's part of our job as artists.

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【TED】Damon Davis: Courage is contagious (Courage is contagious | Damon Davis)

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